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Calif. Mileage Limits Won't Solve Housing, Climate Problems

Manatt Land Use Partner David Smith authored an article for Law360 on how vehicle miles traveled (VMT) regulations in California are failing to reduce the state@s carbon emissions and are harming lower-class and middle-class workers who must drive to earn their paycheck. Smith discussed how policymakers are not funding alternative modes of transit at a meaningful scale @as VMT is being imposed...

Climate Change, Land Use

Looking Inward to Grow Outward: Five Keys to Managing Human Capital Through Hyper-Growth

In his latest@Entrepreneur@column, Manatt Digital and Technology Managing Director@Kalon Gutierrez discusses the integral role human capital management plays in startups@ successful growth. Gutierrez notes that, although often overlooked, human capital is an integral component of this process, adding, @when startups and their investors partner to raise capital and fund scale, there is an...

Growth

Manatt Represents Life Science Solutions Provider Delta Project Management in its Sale to Verista

A Manatt team represented Delta Project Management, a leading provider of regulatory compliance and project management solutions to the life science industries, in its sale to Verista, a life science business and technology consultancy.

CEQA to Project Proponents: ‘Why Can’t You Do Solar?’

A mammoth case out of Lake Tahoe affirms a new environmental review obligation for project proponents: Why can’t you do solar?

What Is Web3?: Essentials of the Blockchain-based Internet Revolution

With the recent explosion of blockchain technology and announcements from major companies pivoting their business models to realize the promise of a metaverse, Manatt looks ahead to what this means for the next generation of the Internet.

Web3 Webinar Series

In a new webinar series, Manatt hosts dynamic roundtables with leaders on the emerging Metaverse and Web 3 technology and innovation occurring in today's markets.

Accelerating and Enhancing Behavioral Health Integration Through Digitally Enabled Care

The United States is in the midst of a decades-long behavioral health crisis that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Great Reidentification: 5 Ways Businesses Can Lead Authentically in Our New Working World

In his latest Entrepreneur column, Manatt Digital and Technology Managing Director@Kalon Gutierrez discusses how the Great Resignation is becoming the Great Reidentification, leading employees to reexamine and redefine their career aspirations to better align with their goals and values. He offers five key themes that businesses, specifically technology companies, should address in order to...

Manatt Represents Vectura Group in Its $11M Pre-Merger Financing With EnBiotix

Manatt represented Vectura Group, a British pharmaceutical company focused on inhaled therapeutics, in its $11 million pre-merger convertible note financing with EnBiotix, a late-clinical stage rare disease biotechnology company focused on chronic respiratory disorders.

Ten Health Care Imperatives for the 2020s: Navigating Through the Surges

In January 2021, Manatt Health described the ten health care imperatives essential for improving our health care system and advancing health equity in the ’20s.