Healthcare Deals This Week: Novartis, Sanofi, Gilead
Healthcare dealmakers have been busy. Alphabet incubated-Verily raised a mega-round and announced a strategic pivot, and Sanofi and Gilead struck billion-dollar agreements in the T-cell engager space. Here, Law360 breaks down those deals and others from the past week.
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Deals & Corporate Governance More
A Texas bankruptcy judge Tuesday gave Genesis Healthcare permission to pay up to $7.3 million in bonuses to executives and other employees, agreeing with the nursing home chain that the workers are needed to k... (more story)
The liability landscape for investors in the long-term care industry shifted with a big-dollar verdict. Law360 talked to plaintiffs counsel Ed Dudensing about the trial and legal accountability of corporate owners.
Amarin Pharma Inc. has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a decision that it plausibly alleged that generics maker Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. encouraged infringement of patents on the heart drug Vascep... (more story)
Dermal fillers company Revance Therapeutics Inc. and two of its executives have agreed to a $17 million settlement to end claims the company hurt investors after the value of a take-private tender offer was ne... (more story)
Biotechnology firm CytoDyn has agreed to dole out 49 million shares of common stock and pay $500,000 to end investors' proposed class action accusing the company of overstating the likelihood that the U.S. Foo... (more story)
Consumer healthcare company Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc. revealed on Friday that it has agreed to acquire a portfolio of brands including Breathe Right nasal strips from Foundation Consumer Healthcare, ad... (more story)
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Drugmaker Novartis collected patients' personal and health information through pharmaceutical marketing websites and transmitted it to third parties including Google using "surreptitious online tracking tools"... (more story)
A consolidated class action alleging a pediatric medical practice failed to protect minor patients' data from hackers can remain in the North Carolina Business Court, a judge ruled in finding the lawsuits were... (more story)
Trinity Health Corp. and Health Gorilla Inc. were hit with a proposed class action in Michigan federal court alleging that they failed to protect the sensitive personal information of patients whose data was i... (more story)
The Federal Circuit on Friday ruled in favor of the government in a dispute with a subcontractor over rights to healthcare software for a U.S. Army veterinary records system, affirming a lower court finding th... (more story)
Telehealth company Hims & Hers Health Inc. urged a California federal court to release it from a shareholder suit accusing it of exploiting its partnership with Novo Nordisk, the distributor of weight loss dru... (more story)
A medical software company won't have to face a fired salesperson's disability and age bias claims in court, after the Ninth Circuit ruled that a severability clause in an arbitration agreement didn't nullify ... (more story)
Policy & Compliance More
An Illinois federal judge gave his final sign-off Tuesday to a $5.7 million settlement in what he called an "interesting" case accusing Cigna of improperly advertising out-of-network providers as though they'r... (more story)
A Louisiana federal judge agreed to toss a federal benefits lawsuit against a health company from workers who alleged the company misspent forfeitures from their employee 401(k) plan, rejecting the workers' ar... (more story)
The Ohio Supreme Court appeared split Tuesday as to whether a new state law banning gender-affirming care for minors trumps a decade-old healthcare freedom provision passed by voters that says state laws can't... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review whether a federal court can certify a class of third-party payors who claim drugmakers hid the cancer risks of an anti-diabetes drug.
Boston-based healthcare system Mass General Brigham shaved as much as 14 minutes a day from employees' pay by rounding their clock-in and clock-out times, according to a proposed class and collective action fi... (more story)
Four groups of amici have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Johnson & Johnson's challenge to a Third Circuit decision allowing a securities class action over its talc products to proceed, warning the rul... (more story)