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New Post-Employment "Revolving Door" Certification

Client Alert | 1 min read | 11.18.11

On November 18, 2011, in the wake of high-profile enforcement actions and bid protests demonstrating the risks involved when contractors recruit and hire former government personnel (e.g., Health Net Fed. Servs.), the DoD issued a final rule that, for the first time, will require offerors to certify that “all covered DoD officials employed by or otherwise receiving compensation from the offeror, and who are expected to undertake activities on behalf of the offeror for any resulting contract, are presently in compliance with all post-employment restrictions covered by 18 U.S.C. 207, 41 U.S.C. 2101-2107, and 5 CFR parts 2637 and 2641, including Federal Acquisition Regulation 3.104-2.”  This new requirement further reinforces the necessity for contractors to have robust internal systems to identify and monitor in a timely way the post-employment restrictions imposed on their employees and consultants who are former government personnel.

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Client Alert | 8 min read | 07.16.25

The New EU “Pharma Package”: The transferable exclusivity voucher—A comparison of Commission/Parliament/Council positions

In our first alert in this weekly series on the EU Pharma Package we provided some important background and general information about the status of the Pharma Package and how the trilogues work, and in the second alert we discussed the proposed changes to regulatory data protection....