Sheppard Mullin Continues Healthcare Practice Expansion

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Sheppard Mullin Continues Healthcare Practice Expansion

2025-03-25 19:00 Last Updated At：19:21

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 25, 2025--

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is pleased to announce that Healthcare partner Todd Rosenberg has joined the firm in Washington, D.C. Rosenberg was most recently a partner at Crowell & Moring.

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Rosenberg is the 16 th partner over the last year to join Sheppard Mullin’s rapidly growing Healthcare team and follows most recent lateral partners Gene Besen, Margia Corner,Elisha Kobre,Scarlett Singleton Nokes,Hoyt Sze and Ashley Wheelock.

Rosenberg represents some of the country’s largest health plans in structuring and negotiating arrangements with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). He also advises PBMs in joint ventures and other strategic transactions with industry partners. For more than two decades, Rosenberg has advised health plans, providers and other healthcare entities on innovative mergers, joint ventures and other strategic collaborations. Beyond healthcare, he has also worked with public and private companies in industries including government contracts, transportation, media, technology and telecommunications. Rosenberg has also represented private equity funds in connection with their investments in healthcare and other industries.

“We are excited to welcome Todd to the firm,” said Luca Salvi, Chair of Sheppard Mullin. “He is a widely respected healthcare attorney with a long track record of helping health plans grow and innovate through complex mergers and alliances, which will be a value-add to our firm and to our clients.”

“Health plans turn to us for their most important matters, be it strategic M&A, innovative joint ventures, high stakes litigation, navigating complex regulatory matters or value-based care and risk-based arrangements,” said Amanda Zablocki, Co-Leader of Sheppard Mullin’s Healthcare industry team. “Todd’s extensive experience working with health plans and PBMs complements our existing practice while adding critical depth in each of these areas. We are seeing a lot of legislative and industry focus on PBMs and drug pricing these days, and our firm is helping to navigate the upcoming changes and create innovative and practical solutions to rising drug costs. We are delighted to have Todd on our team.”

“I’m very happy to be a part of the Healthcare team’s continued growth on the East Coast,” Rosenberg said. “Sheppard Mullin’s world-class Healthcare team has a reputation for excellence, and its full-service, coast-to-coast practice will help my clients continue to grow strategically.”

Rosenberg received his B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Emory University and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. He is active in public service in Washington, D.C. and serves on multiple community and other nonprofit boards.

Sheppard Mullin has one of the most active and diversified Healthcare teams in the country, representing all segments of the industry. The firm is a leader in helping health insurers and health plans considering convergence transactions that result in successful plan/provider alignment, navigating evolving regulatory changes and compliance, and defending in high-stakes litigation. Recent successes include representing private equity firm client Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in launching Mosaic Health; helping SCAN Health Plan secure a major victory that will allow it to recoup more than $250 million in Medicare Advantage payments, after challenging CMS’s revised calculation of “STAR Ratings” for 2024; and guiding Molina Healthcare, Inc. through the healthcare regulatory aspects of Molina’s acquisition of Brand New Day and Central Health Plan of California, both wholly owned subsidiaries of Bright Health Company of California, Inc.

About Sheppard Mullin’s Healthcare Team

Sheppard Mullin’s 230-attorney, national Healthcare industry team has been named a Health Care Practice Group of the Year by Law360 four times in seven years. Working in all sectors of healthcare with industry-leading and growing companies, disruptive start-up clients and healthcare-focused investors, Sheppard Mullin is a go-to firm for innovative transactions and joint ventures, regulatory solutions, population health management, global risk and value-based contracting, technology transactions and privacy matters. The team offers significant experience in cybersecurity, tax, non-profit, employment and labor, real estate, artificial intelligence, antitrust, litigation and finance.

About Sheppard Mullin’s Corporate and Securities Practice

One of the firm's core strengths, Sheppard Mullin’s Corporate and Securities practice group, assists clients throughout the United States and abroad in maximizing their business opportunities. We represent clients that range from private to public companies and from startups and emerging businesses to international corporations. We are proud to offer CRADLE TO LIQUIDITY ® services. We provide general business legal advice, assist in structuring and implementing major transactions, prepare agreements to address unique business arrangements, and consult with clients to resolve major business and ownership issues. We handle such matters as initial and later-stage venture and other financings; leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations; public offerings; mergers and acquisitions; SEC compliance; private equity transactions; real estate capital markets transactions; corporate, LLC and partnership formation; and corporate partnering, joint venture and other strategic alliance arrangements. Because of our diverse client base, we have experience representing substantial entities in complicated multinational and multistate transactions, as well as advising smaller and emerging clients on the full spectrum of business matters.

About Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Sheppard Mullin is a full-service AmLaw 50 firm with more than 1,100 attorneys in 16 offices located in the United States, Europe and Asia. Since 1927, industry-leading companies have turned to Sheppard Mullin to handle corporate and technology matters, high-stakes litigation and complex financial transactions. In the U.S., the firm's clients include nearly half of the Fortune 100. For more information, please visit www.sheppardmullin.com.

Todd Rosenberg, Partner

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'Suspect' on Disney+ digs for the truth around a fatal London police shooting
2025-04-23 22:15 Last Updated At：22:21

LONDON (AP) — It’s hard to imagine what it’s like to have the most traumatic event of your life reenacted as television drama.

For one Brazilian family, it is cathartic.

“I want them to see the reality that my boy was innocent,” said 80-year-old Maria de Menezes, whose son was shot dead by London police in 2005 after being mistaken for a suicide bomber. The shooting remains a scar on the reputation of the Metropolitan Police, and an unhealed wound for the dead man’s family.

“Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes,” which will be released April 30 on Disney+, dramatizes the killing of the 27-year-old electrician, which happened a day after failed bombing attempts on the London Underground. The botched attacks, in which the home-made explosives failed to detonate, came two weeks after suicide bombers attacked three London subway trains and a bus on July 7, killing 52 people.

De Menezes, who lived in an apartment building that police believed was home to one of the on-the-run suspects, was on his way to work when he was shot seven times at close range by police who followed him onto a subway carriage. The two officers who shot him testified at an inquest that they believed de Menezes was one of the failed bombers.

Screenwriter Jeff Pope said a “poorly planned and poorly executed” police operation was followed “by obfuscation, by denial, by evasion.”

“And that has denied his family proper closure,” said Pope, whose previous forays into fact-based drama include Laurel and Hardy biopic “Stan & Ollie” and Irish church-abuse story “Philomena,” which garnered him an Academy Award nomination.

The first two episodes of the four-part miniseries recreate the build-up to the shooting with agonizing suspense, showing how bad luck and police missteps led to tragedy at a time when the city was on edge and officers under intense pressure.

The surveillance officer watching the building where de Menezes lived had stopped to urinate and didn’t get a good look at him. The team of armed officers was too late to stop him as he made his way by bus to a subway station and boarded a train.

“There’s so much horrendous chance involved,” Pope said. “But it was the misinformation that really got me.”

The police force initially told reporters de Menezes’ bulky clothing and panicked manner had caused commanders to fear he was a suicide bomber, and that he ignored a shouted warning from officers before being shot.

Those claims were contradicted by witnesses and rejected by an inquest jury. But false details lingered. “Suspect” is, in part, an exploration of the long afterlife of false information.

Like millions of people in Britain, Pope said he vividly remembers the 7/7 bombings and the shooting of de Menezes 15 days later. But he said that “at the back of my mind, I had retained these details – that unfortunately he was wearing bulky clothing. He’d vaulted the barriers, he’d run down the escalator, and that somehow his behavior tragically had led to his death.”

“I then started to really dig into it … and what I discovered made me angry because it’s not true,” he said.

In Pope’s telling, misinformation about the shooting spread not through an organized cover-up but through confusion and buck-passing, as police officers closed ranks to protect the force’s reputation.

No officers were charged over the killing, though the Metropolitan Police force was fined for endangering public safety.

De Menezes’ family waged a long legal battle for accountability that included suing the police in civil court. That case was settled for an undisclosed amount in 2009. In 2016, the European Court of Human Rights concluded that British authorities were correct not to charge any police officers.

Both Cressida Dick, the officer in charge of the botched surveillance operation, and then-Metropolitan Police chief Ian Blair were cleared of wrongdoing. Dick rose to become head of the force. Blair was later appointed to the House of Lords.

The series comes not long after ITV's “Mr. Bates vs The Post Office” and Netflix drama “Adolescence,” two recent British docudramas that started conversations and sparked pressure for action on social ills – respectively, a miscarriage of justice that led to the prosecution hundreds of post office managers and the pernicious impact of social media on children.

Actor Russell Tovey, who plays Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Paddick, a senior officer who pressed the force to set the record straight, said “Suspect” is “a hard watch and it’s disappointing watch,” because there is no big moment where justice is served.

But he believes art can "change perceptions and hold people accountable.”

“A drama in your living room hits home quicker than any government rhetoric, quicker than any op-ed piece," Tovey said. "Drama changes the world.”

Twenty years after his death, the show also restores the humanity of de Menezes, played by newcomer Edison Alcaide. He’s not just a victim, but a rounded person, building a life in London and with a much-loved family back in Brazil.

For that reason among others, de Menezes’ family welcomes the series.

“I want to believe that from now on things will be different," Maria de Menezes said. “That the people who doubt the truth, they will see it and believe it’s real — that the boy was not guilty of anything, that the boy was innocent.

"They killed an innocent boy.”

FILE - Co-writer Jeff Pope attends the premiere for "The Lost King" at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2022, in Toronto. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Maria Menezes, second left, is flanked by Matzinhos da Silva, left, and Giovani de Menezes, at the funeral for her son Jean-Charles de Menezes in Gonzaga, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, on July 29, 2005. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

FILE - Maria Otone de Menezes, mother of Jean Charles de Menezes, left, is comforted by her granddaughter Giovana Oliver da Silva during a news conference in central London on Oct, 12, 2005. (AP Photo/Sergio Dionisio, File)

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