Darshan Kulkarni explores why compliance isn’t just a side issue—it’s often the ultimate dealbreaker in pharma and biotech transactions. When buyers look at acquiring a company in life sciences, they’re not just acquiring assets, patents, or promising pipelines. They’re also taking on the company’s regulatory baggage. If that baggage includes off-label promotion, billing fraud, improper trial oversight, or weak documentation, the deal could be dead on arrival. Darshan explains how regulators—...
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Darshan Kulkarni explores why compliance isn’t just a side issue—it’s often the ultimate dealbreaker in pharma and biotech transactions. When buyers look at acquiring a company in life sciences, they’re not just acquiring assets, patents, or promising pipelines. They’re also taking on the company’s regulatory baggage. If that baggage includes off-label promotion, billing fraud, improper trial oversight, or weak documentation, the deal could be dead on arrival. Darshan explains how regulators—...
Darshan Kulkarni highlights that to stay compliant with the FDA, companies don’t need an exhaustive set of SOPs—just the essential ones. Inspectors primarily focus on SOPs covering informed consent, adverse event reporting, drug/device accountability, source documentation, PI oversight, protocol deviations, and record retention. He emphasizes keeping SOPs concise, practical, and enforceable, training staff consistently, and expanding them only as operational needs grow. Support the show
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Darshan Kulkarni explores why compliance isn’t just a side issue—it’s often the ultimate dealbreaker in pharma and biotech transactions. When buyers look at acquiring a company in life sciences, they’re not just acquiring assets, patents, or promising pipelines. They’re also taking on the company’s regulatory baggage. If that baggage includes off-label promotion, billing fraud, improper trial oversight, or weak documentation, the deal could be dead on arrival. Darshan explains how regulators—...
