NLS Legal Advice article

On 9 February 2026, Novo Nordisk announced it has filed a lawsuit against U.S. telehealth company Hims & Hers, alleging that the firm is offering compounded, non‑FDA‑approved versions of Wegovy and Ozempic that could put patients at risk.

Pfizer has filed a lawsuit against Metsera, its Board of Directors, and Novo Nordisk, in the Delaware Court of Chancery.

The Court of Appeal has overturned the District Court’s acquittal in the insider trading case involving events from the spring of 2019 and individuals from the company’s former management.

It used to be canon that to work in drug development, one must be a scientist of some kind. In the last couple of decades we, as an industry, learned that this was true no longer.

Hanneke Later-Nijland is an attorney-at-law and a trained pharmacist from the Netherlands who recently launched The Genotype Network, a network for corporate and regulatory lawyers specialized in life sciences. Describe the purpose of the network? “The purpose is to add value, and more specifically to advance transactions in the life science space in every aspect, […]

Paolo Macchiarini who made headlines for pioneering surgery is charged with aggravated assault over procedure. Macchiarini has gone on trial in Sweden charged with aggravated assault, 11 years after he first performed experimental transplants of synthetic windpipes on patients. The trial centres on three transplants Macchiarini performed between 2011 and 2013, when a synthetic windpipe […]