Annual opioid-related overdose deaths in Massachusetts have surged past the 2,000 mark. When long-term clients asked us to help launch and incorporate a nonprofit organization to combat the crisis, we immediately jumped in and have served as pro bono counsel to RIZE ever since. 

Mintz Private Equity Member Matthew Simpson spoke to Fierce Healthcare about the heightened antitrust scrutiny of private equity deals in the health sector by both the FTC and DOJ. He also discussed how sponsors can adapt to this shift in enforcement priorities and what it means for the health sector. 

In this in-depth article, Mintz Projects & Infrastructure Practice Chair Ayaz Shaikh, along with Mintz Associates Areta Jez and Brad Alexander, survey the establishment and evolution of carbon markets and explain carbon credits, carbon offsets, and the difference between compulsory and voluntary carbon markets.

Mintz attorneys in Boston, New York, and Washington, DC, closed four Private Equity transactions in the past month. Along with acquisitions for Charlesbank Capital Partners, DIF Capital Partners portfolio company Joink LLC, and Artemis Capital Partners, the firm represented the CEO and some managers of Salary.com in the sale of most of the company’s equity interests to Accel-KKR.

Mintz secured a favorable resolution of a federal criminal case on behalf of our client in a 10-count federal indictment alleging conspiracy, wire fraud, and electronic mail fraud. This charge of electronic mail fraud was the first-ever case indicted and prosecuted under the CAN-SPAM Act.