Nicole Liffrig Molife is counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice.
Nicole serves as regulatory counsel to venture capital and private equity clients and healthcare, technology, and life sciences companies on their strategic investments, collaborations, joint ventures, financings, securities offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. She leads regulatory diligence and risk assessments for acquisitions and investments. Nicole guides clients through complex regulatory issues and provides healthcare regulatory advice on transactions to a diverse set of early-stage companies, developers of innovative technologies, and commercial healthcare, technology, and life sciences clients throughout the industry, including:
She handles a range of healthcare regulatory matters, including fraud and abuse counseling, complex risk analyses, and internal reviews and investigations involving the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act, the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, the Stark Law, and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and enrollment regulations, requirements, and policies.
She advises on healthcare regulatory and compliance considerations that clients in the healthcare, technology, and life sciences industry face in their market access and commercial strategies, sales and marketing activities, and commercial contracts and arrangements. These matters have included advising on product purchase, rebate and discount agreements, pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), health plan, group purchasing organization (GPO) and integrated delivery network (IDN) agreements, pharmacy services and hub agreements, patient support, assistance and access programs, commercial and medical affairs activities, and interactions and agreements with key opinion leaders and licensed healthcare professionals.
Prior to joining Latham, Nicole worked at another global law firm and had a secondment in the legal department of a major life sciences company.
Recent examples of Nicole's experience serving as regulatory counsel includes representation of:
Nicole writes and speaks frequently on a variety of healthcare and life sciences topics, including healthcare compliance risks and regulatory structural considerations arising in healthcare transactions, fraud and abuse risks in Health IT agreements, compliance with the Stark Law, contract negotiation and due diligence strategies, and Medicare coverage and reimbursement matters. Recent thought leadership includes:
Chambers USA recognized the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice for “world class expertise when it comes to the most challenging transactions.”