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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader advises Anavex Life Sciences on annual meeting victory
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader advises Anavex Life Sciences on annual meeting victory Press releases | 24 September 2026 Boston, Denver, New York, Philadelphia – A Hogan Lovells Cadwalader team advised Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: AVXL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative treatments for central nervous system diseases, in a proxy contest against activist fund PVG Asset Management Corporation in connection with Anavex’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader advises Anavex Life Sciences on annual meeting victory
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader advises Anavex Life Sciences on annual meeting victory Press releases | 24 September 2026 Boston, Denver, New York, Philadelphia – A Hogan Lovells Cadwalader team advised Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: AVXL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative treatments for central nervous system diseases, in a proxy contest against activist fund PVG Asset Management Corporation in connection with Anavex’s 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
FDA-SEC Information Sharing Heightens Focus On Life Science Company Disclosures
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader are most popular: within Government, Public Sector, Intellectual Property, Food, Drugs, Healthcare and Life Sciences topic(s) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing a cooperative framework for interagency information sharing, including the exchange of non-public information.
EDGAR Next: Annual Confirmations
HL Hogan Lovells Cadwalader More Hogan Lovells Cadwalader is a global law firm trusted by clients to deliver on complex, high-stakes matters. Operating at the intersection of business, finance, and government, we bring an unwavering commitment to client service and the decisive counsel that helps clients achieve exceptional results.
EDGAR Next: Annual Confirmations
In September 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new rules relating to access to, and management of, EDGAR accounts, including the required use of a new SEC filing platform, “EDGAR Next.” The EDGAR Next platform went live on March 24, 2025, and initial enrollment for existing EDGAR filers was required by September 15, 2025.
On the Ongoing Israel-Hamas War
Wind by Victor Skachkov *** She spoke as to a child who could not understand All the futility that lay ahead Yet who she knew would go on to repeat Repeat repeat the things men had to learn.1 Those words come from the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is the most ancient work of literature that has survived to our modern age.
Hogan Lovells advises Definium Therapeutics, Inc. in Upsized Public Offering
Definium is a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company developing a new generation of therapeutics intended to address underlying causes of psychiatric and neurological disorders. On June 22, Definium announced positive topline results in its first Phase 3 study evaluating a single dose of DT120 (lysergide) ODT 100 µg in adults with major depressive disorder (MDD).
SEC provides ATM program relief for public companies following loss of primary S-3 eligibility
On March 19, 2026, the SEC issued guidance clarifying that a public company conducting an at‑the‑market (ATM) offering pursuant to a previously filed ATM prospectus supplement may sell the full amount of securities covered by it even if the company no longer meets the $75 million public float requirement needed to rely on General Instruction I.B.1 to Form S‑3 (the Public Float Requirement).
SEC provides ATM program relief for public companies following loss of primary S-3 eligibility
On March 19, 2026, the SEC issued guidance clarifying that a public company conducting an at‑the‑market (ATM) offering pursuant to a previously filed ATM prospectus supplement may sell the full amount of securities covered by it even if the company no longer meets the $75 million public float requirement needed to rely on General Instruction I.B.1 to Form S‑3 (the Public Float Requirement).
Life Sciences and Health Care
We have significant experience guiding clients around the world that are at the forefront of stem cell, regenerative medicine, and advanced therapy innovations. Advising universities and companies, our experience spans research and development, licensing deals between inventors, manufacturing, complex regulatory and commercialization questions, reimbursement, distribution, and intellectual property (IP).
2025 Horizons Life Sciences and Health Care | JD Supra
In 2025, Life Sciences and Health Care (LS&HC) companies face rapidly evolving regulatory paradigms that create transactional risks and require daily monitoring. After more than 70 national elections in 2024, the dust hasn’t fully settled, not least in the U.S., where President Trump has taken office for the second time. Indeed, political shifts across the world – coupled with geopolitical uncertainty – set the tone for changes to come. Please see full publication below for more information.
Where are they now? Status updates on innocent men & women locked up by Trump.
The list of innocent people jailed by Trump keeps growing longer — so long, that it’s becoming hard to keep up with each individual case. Let this be a chance to catch up on the handful of cases I’ve highlighted in recent weeks. But more importantly, let us take a moment to fortify our spirits, to celebrate the momentary victories, to lament the ongoing injustices, and to continue pressing for an end to this madness.
Trump is threatening to arrest a member of Congress. These are the actions of a tyrant.
This is Bonnie Watson Coleman. She is the representative for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District. Watson Coleman has dedicated her life to public service: nearly thirty years working for various state agencies, seventeen years as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly, and now a decade in Congress. She turned 80 a few months ago. On May 9, Watson Coleman and other elected officials attempted to tour an ICE detention facility in Newark.
This Minnesota man was ripped away from his family by Trump’s deportation machine. Free him now.
This is Aditya Harsono, posing with his wife, Peyton, and his newborn daughter, Adalet. He is a 33-year-old native of Indonesia. His wife and child are U.S. citizens. Harsono came to America in 2015 as a student, earned multiple degrees, and recently embarked on a career in healthcare. He had come to love life in America and applied for a green card last year. But on March 27, he was ambushed by immigration agents at his workplace — a hospital in Marshall, Minnesota — and taken into custody.
Life Sciences & Health Care Horizons 2025
Horizons 2025 Life Science and Health Care Edition In 2025, Life Sciences and Health Care (LS&HC) companies face rapidly evolving global and local business paradigms that create regulatory, intellectual property, transactional and contentious risks and require daily monitoring.
This scientist has been sitting in an ICE jail cell for two months. Release her now.
This is Kseniia Petrova. She is a 30-year-old woman working on groundbreaking cancer research at Harvard Medical School. A native of Russia, she has been residing in the United States for nearly two years on a J-1 scholar visa. On February 16, Petrova was returning from a trip to France, when she failed to clear customs at Logan Airport. She was carrying samples of frog embryos to be used by her lab.
This website has spent ten years creating a blacklist of thousands who speak out on Israel.
This is the homepage of Canary Mission. The website, launched in 2015, ‘documents individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the USA, Israel and Jews on North American college campuses and beyond.’ They claim to do this in the name of combatting antisemitism and bigotry. This is a lie. What Canary Mission actually does is compile a database of individuals who speak out against what many perceive as illegal and immoral actions taken by the State of Israel.
Life Sciences & Health Care Horizons 2025 | JD Supra
Our 2025 Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons edition is now live! Explore the latest global insights from the U.S., Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East on the key issues and emerging trends shaping the future of life sciences and health care.
Trump is trying to ban the most reliable news agency in America from reporting on the White House.
This is the logo of the Associated Press. The AP is the gold standard in American news reporting, providing raw on-the-ground factual information. Its articles and images are utilized by around 15,000 media outlets around the globe. It is perhaps our most precious journalistic institution. And Donald Trump does not want their reporters in the Oval Office or on Air Force One.
A criminal gang is being used as a boogeyman to lock up innocent men in a foreign hellhole.
This is Venezuela. For over a decade, this South American country has seen a catastrophic collapse in economic living standards and political freedoms, provoking a massive refugee crisis. Close to eight million people have fled the country, with hundreds of thousands coming to the United States. Some tiny fraction of those people belong to a criminal gang known as Tren de Aragua. Tren de Aragua is, without a doubt, a vicious criminal organization.
Trump wants to seize this foreign island against the wishes of its people.
This is Greenland. It is the largest island in the world. As it is mostly covered in ice, only 57,000 people live here. Those people are governed by the Kingdom of Denmark, which has controlled the island for over 200 years. 90% of Greenlanders, however, are not Danish. They are ethnically Inuit, indigenous to this arctic territory, and many want their homeland to become an independent country. But Donald Trump has other ideas.
This man has destroyed democracy in Hungary. We cannot let that happen here.
This is Viktor Orbán. He is the incumbent prime minister of Hungary. He has held that office since 2010. In that time, he has transformed Hungary from a budding democracy into an authoritarian state. Elections are still held, citizens still cast votes, a parliament still passes legislation — but for all intents and purposes, Orbán and his allies hold all the political power in this country. In the span of fifteen years, Orbán has targeted and dismantled all functional opposition to his regime.
SEC approves Nasdaq and NYSE revisions to reverse stock split rules: What public companies need to know | JD Supra
In January 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved amendments, both of which are now effective, to The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) and The New York Stock Exchange1 (NYSE) listing rules that will significantly affect companies seeking to use reverse stock splits to regain or maintain compliance with Nasdaq’s and NYSE’s $1.00 minimum bid price requirements.
EDGAR Next Transition Alert: Are you ready for 2025? | JD Supra
In September 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new rules relating to access to, and management of, EDGAR accounts, including the required use of a new SEC filing platform, “EDGAR Next”. Every SEC filer will need to take the necessary steps to ensure compliance once EDGAR Next goes live on March 24, 2025. A. Timeline March 24, 2025: EDGAR Next goes live.
SEC, whistleblowers and impact on employment-related agreements | JD Supra
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, enacted on July 21, 2010, added Section 21F to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to protect whistleblowers from retaliation from their employers. Eligible whistleblowers are also entitled to a monetary award in the event the Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC) succeeds in obtaining a monetary order in a judicial or administrative enforcement action.
SEC, whistleblowers and impact on employment-related agreements
On September 9, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced it had settled charges against seven public companies that utilized employment and employment-related agreements that the SEC believed violated its rules against impeding potential whistleblowers from reporting misconduct.
2024 Life Sciences & Health Care Horizons | JD Supra
While economic factors, including the high cost of capital, continue to keep our clients up at night, we also see signs of optimism in 2024. Against this fiscal backdrop, significant recent regulatory changes and those on the horizon will impact supply chain planning, commercial launch preparation, and pricing and reimbursement, making a cross-border perspective even more critical for achieving long term business goals. Please see full publication below for more information.
Last-minute compromise narrows scope of nurse staffing bill
After years of demanding action from the Legislature, nurses were on the cusp of finally gaining a voice in hospital staffing levels. The “Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act”, approved by a conference committee Saturday, had aimed to address the working conditions of direct care nurses in hospitals and the related staffing shortages seen statewide. kA 4=2DDlQA`QmqFE E92E 562= 76== E9C@F89 @?
Students from across Minnesota urge lawmakers to mandate menstrual products in schools
If you walk into a bathroom at any school in Minnesota, you’re sure to find the standard hygiene equipment — hand soap, paper towels, toilet paper. If HF44 were to become law, you could add another item to that list: menstrual products. Rep. Sandra Feist (DFL-New Brighton), the bill sponsor, said this addition is long overdue. “The impact of period poverty on students’ ability to really get a full education in Minnesota” is beyond dispute, she said.
Compromise agreement on nurse staffing legislation clears conference committee
May 20, 2023 2:36 PM By Steve Abrams After years of demanding action from the Legislature, nurses are primed to finally gain a say in hospital staffing levels. A deal was announced Saturday morning on the “Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act,” a plan to address the working conditions of direct care nurses in hospitals and the related staffing shortages seen statewide.
House OKs expanded protections under Women’s Economic Security Act
Passed in 2014, the Women’s Economic Security Act provides a profusion of accommodations for nursing and pregnant employees in the workplace. Updates to this legislation may now be around the corner. The House passed HF1104, as amended, 70-58 Thursday evening following an impassioned debate. The bill, which would expand protections for workers effective Jan. 1, 2024, now heads to the Senate. “This is about dignity and respect for workers,” said Rep.
Last-minute compromise narrows scope of nurse staffing bill that goes to governor
After years of demanding action from the Legislature, nurses were on the cusp of finally gaining a voice in hospital staffing levels. The “Keeping Nurses at the Bedside Act”, approved by a conference committee Saturday, had aimed to address the working conditions of direct care nurses in hospitals and the related staffing shortages seen statewide. But that deal fell through on the last day of session.
House passes K-12 education bill that features $2.2 billion funding boost, contentious policy changes
The education finance and policy agreement returned from conference committee has House DFLers ecstatic. “With this proposal, we make historic investments in our schools,” said Rep. Cheryl Youakim (DFL-Hopkins). “We’ve had over 20 years of underinvestment in our schools. And while we cannot change that overnight, or even in one biennium, this bill is an awesome start.” Youakim and Sen.
DFLers call education budget bill that clears conference committee ‘historic’
“Generational impact.” “Historic investment.” “This is why I ran for office.” Those were the words of DFLers at Saturday’s close of the education finance and policy bill conference committee. Following adoption of the final articles, as amended, of HF2497, the state is on track to appropriate $2.26 billion in new education spending during the 2024-25 biennium, a 10.8% increase over base. Once crafted, a conference committee report will be sent to both chambers for final approval.
Conferees commence work on omnibus education bill
Minnesota should dole out $2.2 billion in new funding for K-12 education. On this, the House and Senate are in agreement. How to spend those billions – and what policy changes should go along with those dollars? Those will take some time to sort out. That’s the upshot from the first meeting of the conference committee on HF2497/SF2684, the omnibus education finance bill. No matter what is ultimately decided, Gov. Tim Walz is sure to be happy.
House passes education bill that would appropriate $2.2 billion in new funding for MN schools
State aid for K-12 education is primed to dramatically increase in the coming biennium. The omnibus education finance bill would make appropriations of $23.2 billion, a 10.6% increase over base spending or $2.22 billion in raw dollars. Both parties agree that schools desperately need this funding boost. However, they disagree on how to allocate this money, with dueling perspectives heard on the House Floor Thursday.
DFL unveils K-12 education budget bill that proposes $2.2 billion in new spending on schools
With this proposal, we make historic investments in our schools. Those were the words of Rep. Cheryl Youakim (DFL-Hopkins), chair of the House Education Finance Committee, while introducing the omnibus education finance bill. The bill calls for $23.2 billion in spending this biennium, which equates to an 11.2% increase over base appropriations. “We’ve had over 20 years of under-investment in our schools,” Youakim said.
Education committee approves DFL budget proposal along party lines
The omnibus education finance bill has officially graduated. Following a brief discussion Thursday, the House Education Finance Committee approved HF2497, as amended, on a 11-7 party-line vote. The bill now heads to the House Taxes Committee. Prior to adopting the delete-all amendment outlined yesterday, the committee accepted five additional DFL-sponsored amendments, with the most substantive being a five-page sponsor’s amendment brought forth by Rep. Cheryl Youakim (DFL-Hopkins).
Lawmakers consider proposal to accelerate gender-neutral bathroom construction in K-12 schools
Protections for gender-affirming health care passed the House before the crack of dawn Friday morning after a marathon all-night session. In a similar vein, Rep. Alicia Kozlowski (DFL-Duluth) sponsors HF2925, which would facilitate the addition of gender-neutral bathrooms in Minnesota schools. The House Education Finance Committee laid over the proposal Friday, as amended, for possible inclusion in an omnibus bill.
Strategic financial options for clinical stage life sciences companies in a troubled equity market | JD Supra
March 24, 2023 Steve Abrams, Christopher Bryant, Christopher Donoho III Hogan Lovells + Follow x Following x Following - Unfollow Contact To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Early 2023 has seen new and unprecedented financial challenges for clinical stage life sciences companies. The financing rounds of 2021 and 2022 are starting to run off, while at the same time the equity markets are either closed or have become extremely challenging for raising new financing.
House committee votes to extend unemployment benefits to hourly school workers
Say you’re a paraprofessional at an elementary school, or a bus driver for a high school, or a cook on a college campus. Like the teaching staff, you have the summers off. But under current Minnesota law, you’re not eligible to apply for unemployment benefits during the off-season. HF20 would change that reality, expanding the unemployment insurance system to include these hourly wage workers.
Strategic financial options for clinical stage life sciences companies in a troubled equity market
Early 2023 has seen new and unprecedented financial challenges for clinical stage life sciences companies. The financing rounds of 2021 and 2022 are starting to run off, while at the same time the equity markets are either closed or have become extremely challenging for raising new financing. Many companies are projecting to run out of cash in the foreseeable future, with no obvious solution other than to turn back to the equity markets, and hope. But, hope is not a strategy.
House panel approves update to 37-year-old school nurse staffing law
Every school with 1,000 or more students must have a licensed school nurse on site. That has been the law in Minnesota since 1986. Rep. Kaela Berg (DFL-Burnsville) believes that ratio is woefully inadequate when it comes to meeting the health needs of today’s schoolkids. She sponsors HF2037, which would cut that ratio in half. “We currently have one nurse for every 1,400 students and many of those nurses are having to visit multiple school sites a day,” she said.
Lawmakers consider mandating MN schools carry naloxone as teen opioid overdoses spike
Last year was the worst in American history for fatal drug overdoses. Minnesota alone saw a 49% increase in fatal teen overdoses. And drug overdoses are now the No. 1 cause of death for young people in the United States. But there is a powerful tool available in the fight against this scourge: naloxone. An opioid antagonist, naloxone has the ability to rapidly reverse a heroin, fentanyl, or oxycodone overdose. Rep.
House bill would mandate smaller K-12 class sizes, boost funding formula
Class sizes in Minnesota schools are spiraling out of control, parents and educators say. Classrooms of 30 or 35 students are becoming increasingly common, impairing educational outcomes and causing teacher burnout. Rep. Zack Stephenson (DFL-Coon Rapids) sees this as a dire situation that requires drastic measures. “Class size matters. Too many students in a classroom makes individualized attention virtually impossible,” he said.
House bill would mandate smaller K-12 class sizes, boost funding formula
Class sizes in Minnesota schools are spiraling out of control, parents and educators say. Classrooms of 30 or 35 students are becoming increasingly common, impairing educational outcomes and causing teacher burnout. Rep. Zack Stephenson (DFL-Coon Rapids) sees this as a dire situation that requires drastic measures. “Class size matters. Too many students in a classroom makes individualized attention virtually impossible,” he said.
Lawmakers hear plan to fund, provide American Indian education to all Minnesota students
Education for and about Indigenous Minnesotans has been lackluster for years, say advocates who’ve long pushed the Legislature to make improvements in curriculum and investments in greater resources. 2023 might finally be their year. “I’ve never seen a teacher at the front of a classroom that ever has looked like me, nor have I ever sat in classrooms that taught about us accurately,” said Rep. Heather Keeler (DFL-Moorhead).
House OKs expanded protections under Women’s Economic Security Act
Passed in 2014, the Women’s Economic Security Act provides a profusion of accommodations for nursing and pregnant employees in the workplace. Updates to this legislation may now be around the corner. The House passed HF1104, as amended, 70-58 Thursday evening following an impassioned debate. The bill, which would expand protections for workers effective Jan. 1, 2024, now heads to the Senate. “This is about dignity and respect for workers,” said Rep.
Holocaust survivor urges lawmakers to mandate genocide studies in Minnesota classrooms
Dora Zaidenweber is 99 years old and a survivor of the Holocaust. Born in Poland, most of her family was wiped out by the Nazis. When she first arrived in the United States in 1950, many people couldn’t comprehend what she had been through or outright doubted her stories. She wants to ensure all Minnesota students learn about this terrible past, equipping them to create a more tolerant future.
Programs striving to close student opportunity gaps ask lawmakers for $13.4 million
Opportunity gaps because of income or race persist among Minnesota schoolkids. In fact, it is widely accepted the state has some of the worst opportunity gaps of any in the country. But some programs have seen remarkable success in closing those gaps. The St. Paul Promise Neighborhood is one such program.
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