Accelerating Business Development in a Post-Pandemic Environment | 1. Introduction: How the world has changed It’s possible that business and business practices may have changed more in the past five months than in the previous five years. From logistics to supply chain, finance, HR, communications, and sales and marketing, few areas have been untouched. Businesses have had to pivot and pivot, and then pivot again. What started as a contingency strategy, has become a rolling strategy to address the shifting business...

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Previously published in World Pharma Today | Executive Summary As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the world, clinicians, academic institutions, private organizations, and governments are working tirelessly to find treatments to help patients and at-risk populations threatened by this novel disease. The best minds in infectious disease and immunology are focusing on mechanisms for future therapies that are both safe and efective. In the absence of approved therapies, some investigators are looking towards drug products indicated for other conditions...

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Christian Kettel Thomsen joins as Vice-President on the EIB’s Management Committee. Thomsen will serve a four-year term on behalf of Denmark Christian Kettel Thomsen has been appointed Vice-President and Member of the Management Committee of the EIB. He takes up his duties today, succeeding Andrew McDowell, whose mandate on behalf of Ireland ended at the end of August. The EIB’s Board of Governors appointed Mr Thomsen, a Danish national, on a proposal from the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark...

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Barely one month after the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its Schrems II decision striking down the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Privacy Shield), Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems has filed 101 complaints with 30 different EU regulatory bodies alleging that dozens of well-known companies in e-commerce, telecommunications, banking, higher education, and other industries are improperly continuing to transmit data to U.S. companies like Google and Facebook in violation of the Schrems II decision and EU data privacy laws. The complaints represent an...

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Since Houthoff published their last News Update, European supervisory authorities, the European Banking Authority ("EBA") and the European Supervisory Market Authority ("ESMA"), have issued a few consultation papers, guidelines and other information. Due to the summer holiday period, this News Update does not contain any relevant news updates from the Dutch and other European supervisory authorities and legislatures. Below we take a closer look at the consultation to revise the EBA and the ESMA's joint guidelines for assessing the...

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