Legal Risk in BD&L Search and Evaluation

Session details:

• Antitrust risk increasingly arises during BD&L search, scouting, and early asset evaluation, well before any deal discussions or term sheets
• Pre-deal information exchange—including pipeline priorities, valuation assumptions, and competitive intelligence—can create exposure even under NDAs
• Growing reliance on AI-driven scouting tools, shared platforms, and data pooling raises new questions around coordination, signaling, and algorithmic collusion
• Joint evaluation models, consortium approaches, and conference interactions require clear legal guardrails, clean teams, and internal firewalls
• Practical enforcement-informed guidance on how legal teams can embed antitrust controls into BD workflows without impeding innovation