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SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS

We thank the following Grantors and Exhibitors for their support in helping to make this conference possible.

GRANTORS
DIAMOND

Ernst & Young
Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services, Life Sciences team

Tighter competition, regulatory scrutiny and tough enforcement heighten the risk of litigation and non-compliance. In your industry, compliance issues and risk factors need to be addressed at every turn from research and development to marketing strategies and supply chain integrity. And the scrutiny of regulators and customers alike is increasing and rapidly changing.Focused on your industry. Our professionals understand the complex issues facing pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies. We have established experience helping companies evaluate and manage those aspects of their businesses that pose the greatest potential risks.Our dedicated team includes CPAs, government contract analysts, economists, licensed pharmacists and certified fraud examiners, as well as former pharmaceutical executives, ethics and compliance officers and government auditors, investigators and prosecutors.

For more information visit www.ey.com or contact: Ted Acosta, Principal, Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services (212) 773-3022 or Mariusz Witalis, Partner, Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services +48 22 557 7950.

PLATINUM

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
PwC's Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Industry Group is dedicated to delivering effective solutions to the complex strategic, operational and financial challenges facing pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies. We provide industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to build public trust and enhance value for our clients and their stakeholders. More than 163,000 people in 151 countries across our network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice. For more information visit www.pwc.com/pharma and www.pwc.com/medtech, contact Marina Bello Valcarce, +44 207 212 8642.

GOLD

Cegedim Relationship Management
Cegedim Relationship Management is the Life Sciences industry's leading global provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Regulatory Compliance solutions. Given the recent enactment of diverse compliance and disclosure and transparency regulations across every global market, the pharmaceutical industry is focused on mitigating fines, reputational risks and possible court cases associated with bribery and corruption. However, achieving regulatory compliance and meeting disclosure and transparency requirements can be a complex and costly challenge.

AggregateSpend360, Cegedim Relationship Management's pro-active, web-based application, automates and streamlines the tracking and reporting of all expenditures between Life Sciences companies and healthcare professionals per local, regional and global transparency requirements - such as the US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (frequently referred to as the Sunshine Act) - and anti-bribery regulations such as the UK Bribery Act and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. This process can be leveraged by accurate customer data management and the integration of a wide range of enterprise applications -- CRM, ERP, Finance, Travel & Expense and HR -- for in-depth analysis and improved insight. For more information visit www.cegedim.com/rm or call (888) 336-3748.

SILVER

Deloitte
The mission of Deloitte's Health Sciences practice is to work with our clients - life sciences companies, health plans and health care providers - to help shape the new health economy and the roles they play within it. Working together, we can help our clients in their efforts to bring discoveries to life and improve the quality of care while achieving their business goals and objectives. Drawing on more than 70 years of Health Sciences experience, with the innovation, knowledge, and commitment of more than 3,300 professionals focused on the industry, we have access to a full range of audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services across all sectors of the industry. We offer wide-ranging, customized services and solutions designed to help our clients in their efforts to capitalize on opportunities and tackle their most pressing and complex challenges. For more information, contact Yogesh Bahl at ybahl@deloitte.com or +1 212 436 6942.


KPMG
With deep industry experience, insight, and technical support, KPMG LLP is one of the largest providers of audit, tax, and advisory services to pharmaceutical and life sciences companies. We help clients gain practical insight into emerging issues, consider approaches to balance risk and controls, improve performance, and explore the accelerating transformation of this industry, both domestically and globally. For more information about KPMG, please call the KPMG Hotline at 1-877-679-KPMG (5764) or visit us at www.us.kpmg.com.

BRONZE

Advanced Health Media (AHM)
AHM is the leading global provider of technology-enabled services designed to manage compliant interactions with healthcare professionals for the highly regulated pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries. Our patented systems are installed with the top global pharmaceutical and biotech companies and used by tens of thousands of industry sales representatives, managers and healthcare professionals. For more information visit www.ahmdirect.com or contact Wayne Baker, Sr. Vice President & Chief Sales Officer, (908) 393-8820.


Arnold & Porter
Arnold & Porter LLP, an 800 lawyer firm with offices in the US and Europe, is ideally positioned to serve the needs of the Biopharmaceutical and Medical Device community. Our team of more than 50 regulatory and compliance attorneys advise life sciences companies in developing, implementing and refining global compliance programs that address regulatory and enforcement risks confronted at each stage of product research and development, manufacturing, marketing and distribution. We regularly advise companies in matters raising complex compliance issues, developing practical solutions to the challenges associated with conducting global clinical trials in jurisdictions with varying healthcare systems, the complexities and risks of pharmaceutical supply chains, interactions with physician and patient populations, managing co-development and co-promotion arrangements, and outsourcing of functions in areas such as research, pharmacovigilance and manufacturing. We also vigorously defend our clients in a broad range of investigations and enforcement matters.

For more information please visit www.arnoldporter.com or contact Daniel A. Kracov, Partner, (202) 942-5120.


Clifford Chance
International law firm Clifford Chance combines the highest global standards with local expertise. Leading lawyers from different backgrounds and nationalities come together as one firm, offering unrivalled depth of legal resources across the key markets of the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.

Established in the early 1990s, Clifford Chance's Global Healthcare and Life Sciences team consists of more than 100 dedicated lawyers in 34 key centres worldwide. Having cultivated an expertise in the industry over nearly two decades and worked with many of the world's leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and health care services companies, we understand the importance of anticipating regulatory and contractual issues in the context of corporate investment, finance, strategy and operations. We have close relations with a number of multi-nationals as well as national and international trade associations in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

Clifford Chance has 34 offices in 24* countries and over 3,3200 legal advisors globally. (*The Firm also has a co-operation agreement with Al-Jadaan & Partners Law Firm in Riyadh.)

For more information, please visit www.CliffordChance.com or contact Peter Dieners, Partner, Germany, +49 211 4355 5469.


Davis Wright Tremaine
Those of us in the Davis Wright Tremaine health care practice group devote nearly all of our time to industry-specific matters. This allows us to develop niche practices within the field that serve needs unique to the health care market. We also understand the business issues and regulatory developments that affect health care delivery and compliance, and as a unified team we can match the attorney with the niche expertise that best addresses client needs. For more information visit our website at www.DWT.com.


Hogan Lovells
Hogan Lovells provides high quality advice to corporations, financial institutions, and governmental entities across the full spectrum of their critical business and legal issues globally and locally. Bringing together the combined strengths of our predecessor firms, we have more than 2,500 lawyers operating out of more than 40 offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. With more than 100 lawyers serving the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, including many with experience at the FDA, CMS and other key agencies and in industry, and others holding advanced degrees in relevant disciplines, we offer timely, effective counsel on matters that include product development, approval and post-approval compliance, and the development of next-generation products. High rankings in Chambers, PLC Which Lawyer?, and other global directories speak to the quality and impact of our services.

Whether your products are traditional drugs or biotechnology products, we work with you to successfully develop and commercialize products, addressing issues of regulatory approvals and compliance; coverage, reimbursement, and pricing; and careful use of intellectual property and regulatory exclusivities to manage product life cycles. Our multidisciplinary team leverages the skills and experience of colleagues in other disciplines - including healthcare compliance (such as coverage, reimbursement, pricing, and fraud and abuse prevention), public policy, intellectual property, corporate and securities law, and litigation - to provide integrated, strategic, and practical advice for successful product development and marketing and effective responses to regulators and competitors.

For more information, visit www.hoganlovells.com or contact Senior Marketing Coordinator Emily Schoenfelder at (202) 637-8688.


Polaris
Polaris is a management consulting firm focused exclusively on the compliance needs of the life sciences industry. Polaris offers a suite of services that specifically target the compliance risks confronting the life sciences industries, including: compliance risk assessments, auditing and monitoring, policy and SOP development, strategic and operational solutions, aggregate spend services. In addition, Polaris Solutions has developed automated business process workflows which address medical education grants, investigator initiated trials, interactions with HCPs, exhibits, sponsorships and aggregate spend. For more information visit www.PolarisManagement.com or contact Mark Scallon, Partner, (415) 209-5850.


Porzio Pharmaceutical Services
Life sciences organizations are delighted to discover that we understand their pain points, speak their language, and deliver straightforward solutions for regulatory compliance. Porzio Pharmaceutical Services (PPS) is a compliance industry leader, with tools and services to help customers master sales and marketing regulations. Among our offerings, Porzio AggregateSpendID streamlines state and federal marketing disclosures by automating the collection and accurate reporting of expenses directed to healthcare practitioners and organizations. The searchable databases of the Porzio Compliance Digest cover drug and device licensing and distribution, transparency legislation, sample accountability, and trends in government investigations. Through our Licensing & Distribution Services, we identify and attain all required licenses based on a company's unique distribution model. Finally, our formula-based approach to sample accountability, Significant Loss Threshold Assurance, ensures that customers neither over or under report sample losses. Strengthen your compliance program today by visiting www.porziolifesciences.com or contacting us (973) 538-1690.


Sidley Austin
Sidley Austin LLP is one of the world's premier law firms with an internationally recognized life sciences practice, representing major pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, diagnostics, dietary supplements and food clients. Many lawyers in our team are acknowledged leaders in their field. Sidley consistently ranks among the top firms in Asia, Europe and the U.S., including by Chambers and Partners and PLC Cross-border Life Sciences Handbook, both of which highlight the firm for its leadership in life sciences regulatory and compliance, government enforcement and investigation, products liability, corporate, intellectual property and antitrust matters. Most recently, Sidley is again top- ranked in the Life Sciences Super League and Life Sciences Regulatory Super League by PLC. And Sidley is the only firm to be recognized on three continents for its leading life science practices by PLC in 2012. For more information visit www.Sidley.com or contact Scott Bass, (202)736-8684 and James Stansel, (202) 736-8092.


Skadden
With more than 2,000 attorneys in 24 offices in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, Skadden represents a broad range of clients in all sectors of the health care industry, including pharmaceuticals and medical technology. Skadden represents pharmaceutical and medical technology clients at every stage of a company's development, from initial public offering to global M&A and corporate finance, and all manner of litigation and regulatory matters, including government investigations, mass torts and product liability litigation, intellectual property counseling and patent litigation, and FDA and healthcare compliance. Skadden has assisted many companies in developing and implementing global anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance programs and represented numerous companies in related government investigations.

For more information visit www.skadden.com or contact John Bentivoglio, (202) 371-7560.


EXHIBITORS

Thomson Reuters
World-Check is part of the Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk and Compliance division and the Accelus suite of products. World-Check offers services effective at revealing risk that can be difficult to find. Our risk and remediation programme is used by more than 5,400 organisations in over 150 countries to meet their compliance obligations and protect the value of their reputation.

Our services include Anti Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), Politically Exposed Person (PEP) screening, transaction monitoring and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD). World-Check services extend into areas such as fraud prevention, government intelligence and enforcement, identity authentication and background screening.

The Accelus suite of solutions is designed to address governance, risk and compliance challenges faced by the board room, and by legal, compliance, audit, and risk management professionals. Besides World-Check, the Accelus suite includes leading solutions provided by the heritage businesses of Complinet, Oden, Paisley, West's Capitol Watch, Westlaw Compliance Advisor, Westlaw Business and EDGARfilings.

Thomson Reuters Accelus helps organisations of all sizes, across all sectors, to manage their risk exposure and accelerate their business at every step.

For more information, visit accelus.thomsonreuters.com or call + 44 207 647 8500.


UL EduNeering
Since 1981, UL EduNeering has provided online compliance and regulatory learning solutions that improve business performance and mitigate risk. Our cloud-based learning solutions assure regulatory compliance, minimize risk and deliver tangible results. We assist business leaders in addressing challenges ranging from employee training, adherence to corporate and industry governance requirements and risk reduction, and certify operation of complex equipment.

We have created more than 700 standard online courses, and have developed 5,000+ custom courses for clients that deal with specific policies, product and other operational-related topics that often serve as key competitive advantages. UL EduNeering is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

For more information visit www.uleduneering.com.


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