10/1/2026 10:10:07 AM Advocate General’s Opinion Raises Evidential Bar for EU Environmental Legislation Affecting Pharma and Cosmetics By Lincoln Tsang Summary Advocate General Kokott’s Opinion in Case C‑193/25 proposed that the EU Court of Justice annul key parts of Directive (EU)...
9/23/2026 5:18:07 PM Raising the Bar: European General Court Sets Steep Standard for Challenging Technically Complex Regulatory Decisions By Lincoln Tsang In its detailed judgment of 23 September 2026 in Case T-455/24, the EU General Court firmly established the demanding threshold for...
9/16/2026 2:18:08 PM Buy European: Incentivising EU Based Pharmaceutical Manufacturing By Alison Dennis Hannah Kerr-Peterson The EU Critical Medicines Act (the “Act”) represents an ambitious effort to strengthen the resilience, security and sustainability of the...
9/8/2026 10:48:08 AM Sizing Up the UK’s Proposed Investigational Marketing Authorisation By Alison Dennis Hannah Kerr-Peterson A consultation on the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority’s (MHRA) proposed rare disease therapies regulatory...
8/3/2026 11:42:13 AM You Talkin' To Me? Operationalising The EU AI Act's Transparency Obligations By Edward Machin Compliance conversations around the European Union’s AI Act have been dominated by its high-risk regime, which was set to take effect...
7/22/2026 10:33:09 AM Old Policies for New Technology: Is Your AI Insurable? By Edward Machin Businesses are deploying generative AI tools, large language models (“LLMs”) and, increasingly, “agentic” systems across customer...
2/2/2026 2:00:38 PM Navigating the Future: 2026 Life Sciences Regulatory Outlook – Global Strategies for Tackling Escalating Cross-Border Challenges By Lincoln Tsang Kellie Combs Gregory Levine Joshua Oyster Katherine Wang +2 more... Show less On 20 January 2026, Ropes & Gray’s Global Life Sciences Regulatory & Compliance team hosted the “Life Sciences Regulatory Outlook 2026”...
9/9/2025 10:28:06 AM It's All Relative: Analysing The CJEU's Judgment On The Scope Of Pseudonymous Personal Data By Edward Machin David Peloquin In a decision with significant legal and operational ramifications for organisations of all shapes and sizes, the Court of Justice of the...
6/13/2025 12:55:37 PM What Are the Key Takeaways From Rachel Reeves’ Spending Review and Who Will be the Biggest Winners? By David Dowling Velyana Borisova Rachel Reeves, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, has revealed the Government’s Spending Review 2025 (SR25) setting out departmental...
6/2/2025 10:37:37 AM 2025 Medtech Regulatory Affairs Roundtable: Key Takeaways By Katherine Wang On May 22, Ropes & Gray and McKinsey & Company co-hosted the 12th Medtech Regulatory Affairs Roundtable online. Around 40 Regulatory...
5/30/2025 8:50:37 AM Regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests in APAC By Katherine Wang Michael Purcell Daisy Bray Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) are critical for diagnosing rare diseases and addressing unmet clinical needs. They are developed,...
5/12/2025 1:10:13 PM New Horizons: Implications of the UK-India Trade Agreement for Life Sciences and Innovation By Elizabeth Todd David Dowling Kenan Ceylan Fang Wei Chua +1 more... Show less The UK and India have announced one of the “biggest and most economically significant” bilateral trade agreements the UK has signed since...
4/23/2025 10:11:38 AM Regulatory Landscape for AI-enabled MedTech in APAC By Katherine Wang Michael Purcell Daisy Bray Regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in Asia Pacific remains nascent, mostly governed by existing regulatory frameworks designed...
4/10/2025 9:18:37 AM Ruling of the Grand Chamber of the EU Court of Justice in Organic Food Labelling: International Trade-Related Implications By Lincoln Tsang Julie Kvedar Historical development on international trade cooperation on food products Since the early 1960s, countries representing over 99 per...
4/1/2025 6:41:36 AM China Formalizes Regulatory Data Protection Mechanism By Katherine Wang Recently, the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) issued the draft version of 'Implementation Measures for Drug Trial Data...
3/26/2025 4:24:06 PM The Data Act: Six Months to Go — But What To Do? By Edward Machin The Financial Times recently published a special report on the future of digital healthcare, comprising articles on ‘smart’ hospitals,...