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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.


09.14.20

Winters Quoted in Law360 on COVID-19’s Impact on the Student Housing Sector

Manatt Real Estate partner Grace Winters spoke with Law360 about how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the student housing space, and its impact on student housing development joint ventures. In the article, Winters discussed whether force majeure clauses within construction and joint venture ...


09.10.20

Karl Quoted in Bloomberg on Disparities in COVID-19 Relief Funding Among Healthcare Providers

Manatt Health partner Anne Karl and counsel Allison Orris spoke with Bloomberg about the flaws in the algorithm used to distribute COVID-19 relief funds to providers, and especially about the disparities in funding faced by communities that have large populations of uninsured and Medicaid patients. ...


09.10.20

Manatt Represents Canopy Health in UnitedHealthcare Collaboration

Manatt Health partner Paul Carr-Rollitt led a team representing Canopy Health—a joint venture between UCSF Health, John Muir Health and several San Francisco Bay Area IPAs that operates a network of 19 hospitals and nearly 5,000 physicians—in a series of transactions with ...


09.09.20

Suennen Quoted in STAT on COVID-19’s Impact on Digital Health

Comments Lisa Suennen made during the STAT Health Tech Summit were featured in a STAT article discussing the impact that COVID-19 has had on the digital technology space.