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Webcast: Mediation, Litigation, and Arbitration: Timing, Cost, Leverage, and Outcomes

When a business resolution isn’t possible, the choice of forum shapes everything that follows. This recorded webcast compares mediation, litigation, and arbitration across the factors that matter most — timing, cost, confidentiality, discovery, motion practice, and appellate rights — and compares the strategic advantages and trade-offs each path presents.

Deal Trends – In Focus: Life Sciences – September 2026

Our partners share insights on the trends shaping dealmaking in the Life Sciences sector—and what to watch in the months ahead. September 2026 · Life Sciences Featuring insights from Ryan Murr, Sebastian Fain, and Branden Berns. DEAL ACTIVITY What’s driving deal activity in the sector right now? Murr: Life Sciences deal volume is up substantially,…

The SEC Is Listening: Earnings Call Pressure Points for Life Sciences Companies

Corp Fin leadership has signaled that staff time may be better spent listening to earnings calls than reviewing routine shelf filings, and a recent comment letter exchange shows why. For life sciences companies, whose calls routinely cover program-level spend, clinical data, and cash runway, inconsistencies between the call and the filings are a potential source of staff comments.

Biopharma M&A: Mid-Cap Public-Target Market Survey (First-Half 2026)

In the first six months of 2026, acquirers announced 13 qualifying acquisitions of public biopharma targets worth $66.6 billion in upfront consideration. This survey examines that period and the surge within it: what is driving it, how the deals are structured, and what it means for the parties negotiating the next one. Focusing on the…

Contingent Value Rights: A Drafting Guide for Biopharma M&A

Contingent value rights have become a defining feature of biopharma M&A, appearing in under 10% of mid-cap public-target deals before 2019 but a quarter to a third of them in every year since 2023. They let a buyer pay less cash at signing while preserving upside for selling stockholders on a binary clinical, regulatory, or…