Health Law Advisor

Tuesday’s decision by Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia categorically approving the merger of AT&T and Time Warner, without imposing any conditions or limitations and rejecting granting a stay for appeal purposes, will, unless blocked if there is an appeal, open the way for a series of pending vertical merger deals.

A “vertical merger” is a merger of two companies that do not compete and that are at different levels of the product or service-provision process. Such mergers do not reduce the number of competitors in a given market and, by ...

In 2008, Ambac v. Countrywide defendants Bank of America Corporation and Countrywide Financial Corporation merged into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank of America.  In discovery, Bank of America withheld communications between Bank of America and Countrywide that occurred before the merger, on the basis that they were privileged attorney-client communications that were protected from disclosure under the common-interest doctrine.  In 2014, the New York Appellate Division, First Department, acknowledged that "New York courts have taken a narrow view of the common-interest ...

WHEN: Thursday, February 26, 2015

TIME: 12:00pm – 1:30pm EST

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Please join us for a complimentary webinar addressing wireless health regulatory issues. This session will discuss recent trends in health technology regulation; including Food and Drug Administration (FDA) developments, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requirements, wireless technology and communication issues, mobile applications, decision support and other Health IT challenges, and privacy and cyber security considerations.

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