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09.28.20

Manatt Supports Launch of Two Startup Medicare Advantage Health Plans in California

Manatt provided corporate and regulatory counsel to startup Medicare Advantage health plans Astiva Health, Inc., and Brandman Health Plan, Inc., as they obtained the financing, Knox-Keene licenses and Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services contracts.


09.28.20

Manatt Advises THT Health in Developing COVID-19 School Reopening Plan

Manatt represented THT Health (formerly, Teachers Health Trust), the health benefits plan serving employees and dependents of Nevada’s Clark County School District, on the creation of the Taskforce Initiative for Educator Safety & Screening (T.I.E.S.) to promote the safe reopening of ...


09.22.20

Manatt Quarterbacks Second Tranche of Subordinated Notes in $40M Whole Business Securitization of FA

Manatt represented Cadence Group, Inc. in structuring and executing an additional $40 million tranche of subordinated notes, which follows the March 2020 whole business securitization of FAT Brands, Inc., the NASDAQ-listed global franchising company. FAT Brands continues to be a leader in the ...


09.16.20

Manatt’s Wilson and Landsberg Named to Daily Journal’s “Top 100” Lawyers List

Manatt’s Managing Partner and CEO Donna Wilson and healthcare litigation partner Barry Landsberg were recognized by Daily Journal on its 2020 “Top 100” lawyers list, which celebrates leading lawyers in California who are conducting cutting-edge legal work and have made a ...


09.16.20

Wolff Quoted in Anti-Corruption Report on the Dangers Companies Face When Hiring a Consultant

Jacqueline Wolff spoke with Anti-Corruption Report about the risks that companies face when hiring foreign consultants following Brazilian consultant Zwi Skornicki’s 18-month probation sentence for Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations in the Eastern District of New York.


09.16.20

Manatt Advises Kraken on Historic Bank Charter Approval

Jan Lynn Owen, a senior advisor in the Manatt Financial Services group, helped advise Kraken, a San Francisco-based digital assets exchange, in its approval of being the first digital asset company in U.S. history to receive a bank charter recognized under state law, and will be the first ...


09.16.20

Carr-Rollitt Represents Canopy Health in Product Collaboration with Health Net

Manatt Health partner Paul Carr-Rollitt guided Canopy Health through a product collaboration agreement with Health Net, another Manatt client, to offer a new, affordable health plan in the San Francisco Bay Area. The agreement was announced on September 16.The strategic collaboration with Health ...


09.16.20

New Jersey Adopts Significant Nursing Home Legislative Reforms

On September 16, 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law four bills responding to the COVID-19 crisis within the state’s nursing homes. The reforms will provide wage increases for nursing home workers and, critically, establish a first-in-the-nation medical loss ratio for ...


09.15.20

Finkelstein Quoted in Modern Healthcare on the Recent Outpatient Drug Pricing Executive Order

Adam Finkelstein spoke with Modern Healthcare about the administration’s recent executive order, which called on the HHS secretary to create rules to tie Medicare outpatient drug payment to international prices.


09.15.20

Karl Quoted in FierceHealthcare and Inside Health Policy on the Withdrawal of the Medicaid Fiscal Ac

Anne Karl spoke with FierceHealthcare and Inside Health Policy about the CMS’ recent decision to withdraw the MFAR which would have stopped states from manipulating Medicaid supplemental payments in order to obtain extra federal matching funds.