Significant FDA Enforcement Developments: Challenges and Opportunities

Rebecca focuses her practice on FDA regulatory matters and advises life sciences and health care clients on a broad range of regulatory and compliance issues under the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act and related laws. Rebecca routinely provides regulatory counsel for corporate transactions, license and collaboration agreements, manufacturing and supply arrangements, and public and private securities offerings involving drug, device, cosmetic, food, and dietary supplement companies. Rebecca also regularly provides legal and strategic advice to pharmaceutical and biotech clients on advertising and promotion issues. Rebecca maintains an active pro bono practice with a focus on immigration, health care, and child welfare issues.

Josh Oyster is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s Life Sciences Regulatory & Compliance practice. He steers clients through a wide range of FDA regulatory issues to help them bring innovative products to market while also ensuring regulatory compliance. Josh is regularly called upon for help with a range of enforcement, regulatory compliance and transactional matters.

Josh routinely helps companies navigate FDA inspections, Warning Letters, product recalls, and other compliance and enforcement matters. He is frequently tapped to analyze clients’ toughest questions related to complex or ambiguous regulatory requirements, drawing on his extensive experience with key policy and enforcement priorities, including medical product promotion, digital health, drug compounding, data integrity, CBD, and developments arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, Josh assists clients in assessing regulatory risks associated with potential acquisitions and investments in FDA-regulated entities.