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Rahul Rao

Rahul Rao

Jun 8, 2026

12:34
How do all the things that John and Bethany were just talking about, uh, affect antitrust strategy? G-what, what would it attract antitrust scrutiny?
12:49
Well, thanks, Wayne.
12:50
Uh, so just taking a, a step back, right, in terms of, uh, antitrust.
12:55
Uh, antitrust regulators are, you know, really simply put, they're, they're concerned with anything that reduces competition.
13:03
Uh, in the pharma space, you know, that may include things like, uh, artificially extending patent monopolies, uh, ac-actions that may thwart generic entry or, or even anything that influences drug price negotiation.
13:17
Uh, historically, uh, antitrust enforcers, uh, cared mostly about, you know, things like overlaps of commercialized products in pharma M&A or, or something like price fixing.
13:30
What's interesting about pharma today is that many current sources of antitrust risk aren't obviously problematic on their face.

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35:51
What mistakes, and again, they're inadvertent by definition, what mistakes are your clients making that they could have avoided, but that got them into some problems?

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