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In this edition of Ropes & Gray’s podcast series On the Ropes: Enforcement Risk Roundtable, litigation and enforcement partner Amanda Raad and associate Kyle Zipf team up with Roman Iwański from B2RLaw to discuss the effect that Poland’s latest judicial reforms have on the legal landscape for conducting business in the country from an anti-corruption and international risk standpoint.

In this third episode in a series of Ropes & Gray podcasts addressing emerging issues for fiduciaries of 401(k) and 403(b) plans to consider as part of their litigation risk management strategy, litigation & enforcement partner Amy Roy and benefits consultant Aneisha Worrell discuss some key takeaways from Anderson v. Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee, the first case to date to address the prudence question under ERISA of including private equity and hedge fund investments on a defined contribution plan menu.

In this Ropes & Gray podcast, asset management partner Joel Wattenbarger and counsel Nicole Krea discuss the new developments in the SEC during the changeover of administrations, including the recent release of a report from the Division of Examinations concerning their 2021 priorities. The Private Fund Regulatory Update is a series of podcasts discussing key issues of interest and updates in the regulatory and compliance space, focusing in particular on private fund managers.

In this Ropes & Gray podcast, finance partner Patricia Lynch and counsel Patricia Teixeira discuss the recent fraud case involving JES Global Capital and its subscription facility. They provide their insights on the diligence banks conduct prior to putting subscription facilities in place, and whether or not we can expect any change in such procedures in light of the case discussed.

In this episode of Women @ RopesTalk, hosted by health care partner Christine Moundas, co-chair of the firm’s anti-corruption and international risk practice María González Calvet interviews Shana Cappell, senior director and chief anticorruption/investigations counsel at PepsiCo. Shana talks about the differences between being in-house and outside counsel, comparing her current role to the years she spent in private practice. She shares PepsiCo’s approach to compliance and how she ensures that colleagues don’t see compliance as the department of “no.” In thinking about her own career, she reflects on how the practice of law has changed over the past 20 years.

In this Ropes & Gray podcast, asset management partners Arthur Andersen and John Ayer discuss the private equity industry’s increasing interest in long-hold investment structures, along with the emergence of sponsors’ ability to offer such structures as an important competitive advantage. They discuss how innovations in the industry have created more flexible arrangements for sponsors considering longer duration investments.

In this Ropes & Gray podcast, asset management partners Adam Dobson, Isabel Dische and Lindsey Goldstein discuss fund recapitalization transactions and a recent trend by some sponsors toward pursuing these transactions without a lead secondary buyer, and certain key risks for both fund sponsors and secondary buyers.

On March 10, 2021, former Chief Judge of the D.C. Circuit Merrick Garland was confirmed by the Senate as the new United States Attorney General. In this Ropes & Gray Capital Insights podcast, litigation & enforcement partners Brian Blais and Lisa Bebchick examine the DOJ enforcement priorities for 2021 and beyond.

In this Ropes & Gray podcast, U.S.-based capital solutions partner Alyson Gal is joined by her London-based business restructuring colleagues, partner Matt Czyzyk and associate Natalie Raine, to discuss recent developments in European restructuring regimes and the implications of these changes on the tools available to investors in European distressed situations. The discussion includes how restructurings have historically been handled in Europe; the impact of the 2020 Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act (CIGA), including the introduction of a new pre-insolvency tool known as the Part 26A restructuring plan; the various applications of the 2019 European Union directive on preventative restructuring frameworks by the Member States; as well as temporary measures put into place in Europe to support companies impacted by the global pandemic.

The week of March 1st, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) officially delayed and suspended three of its programs, two of which, the Kidney Care Choices model and Seriously Ill Populations (SIP) track of the Primary Care First model, were set to begin on April 1. The Geographic Direct Contracting model has been indefinitely suspended, and CMMI made changes to the terms of the Direct Contracting model. In this Ropes & Gray podcast, health care partner, Christina Bergeron, and health care counsel, Sarah Blumenthal, discuss these actions, their implications and recommended next steps for providers, groups, and others participating, or interested in participating, in these programs.