• About Me
  • Representative Matters
  • My Credentials
  • About Me

    Through more than a decade of experience in private practice and positions within the FDA and on the Hill, Wade Ackerman has acquired unique insights into the evolving legal and regulatory landscape facing companies marketing FDA-regulated products.

    Mr. Ackerman advises clients on FDA regulatory matters across a range of sectors, including drugs and biologics, cosmetics, medical devices and diagnostics, and digital health products and services associated with drugs and traditional devices. He serves as one of the leaders of Covington’s multidisciplinary Digital Health Initiative, which brings together the firm’s considerable resources across the broad array of legal, regulatory, commercial, and policy issues relating to the development and marketing of digital health technologies. Until June 2016, Mr. Ackerman served as Senior FDA Counsel to the U.S. Senate Health Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee. In this role, he was involved in all major legislative initiatives, oversight hearings, and other Senate activities concerning the FDA and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

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    Practices

  • Practics and Industries
  • Representative Matters
    • Counsel to Lenovo in securing CFIUS approval of its $2.1 billion acquisition of the x86 Server Business from IBM.
    • Counsel to GLOBALFOUNDRIES, a subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, in securing CFIUS and FOCI approval its acquisition of the IBM Microelectronics Division, valued at more than $1 billion.
    • Counsel to Nexen in securing CFIUS approval of its $15 billion acquisition by the China National Offshore Oil Corp.
    • Counsel to multiple companies in responding to data and cybersecurity incidents, including, among others, incidents involving the then-largest single drawdown of cash from ATMs, stolen personal information of more than 50 million consumers, and multiple attacks by Advanced Persistent Threats at the intellectual property of defense, sciences and other IP-intensive companies.
    • Counsel to Lenovo in securing CFIUS approval of its $2.1 billion acquisition of the x86 Server Business from IBM.
    • Counsel to GLOBALFOUNDRIES, a subsidiary of Mubadala Development Company, in securing CFIUS and FOCI approval its acquisition of the IBM Microelectronics Division, valued at more than $1 billion.

    Practices

  • My Credentials
    Education
    • Harvard Law School, J.D., 2007
    • Cambridge University, M.Phil., 2004
    • Columbia College, B.A., 2003
    Judicial
    • Hon. Joette M. Katz, Supreme Court of Connecticut, 2007 - 2008
    • Hon. Steven M. Gold, U.S. District Court, New York, 2006 - 2007
    Pro bono
    • Developed policy paper on hate crime legislation in Asia, South Asia, and the U.S. for use in aiding legislators in other countries in creating comparable schemes.
    • Represented incarcerated individual in completing name change proceedings.
    Languages
    • Mandarin
    • Japanese
    Admissions
    • Connecticut
    • New York
    Government Experience
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    Practices