BENJAMIN ZEGARELLI is of counsel at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. where he provides counsel on compliance and regulatory issues to clients in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotech industries. With a clear focus on FDA regulatory counseling, Benjamin advises a breadth of health care industry clients, including pharmaceutical, medical device, and bio tech companies, on the federal and state laws surrounding medical product development and marketing. He has extensive experience guiding medical device companies through the FDA regulatory process to identify the correct regulatory pathway, assisting with communications and meetings with FDA, ensuring that regulatory submissions meet regulatory requirements, and helping to establish robust post-market quality system and compliance controls. In particular, Benjamin has counseled numerous medical device software developers, in particular software that includes artificial intelligence or machine learning functionalities, on FDA regulatory strategy, including preparing for pre-submission meetings with FDA and submitting premarket notifications (510(k)) and de novo reclassification requests. His practice also includes advising life sciences clients on regulatory compliance relating to distribution, sales, promotion, and negotiating contractual relationships with suppliers and other contractors. Benjamin has substantial experience representing medical device companies in responding to significant unfavorable observations from FDA investigators, including regulatory violations cited in Untitled Letters or Warning Letters. He helps companies with compliance issues to navigate the process of communicating with FDA and remediating the identified compliance issues, including the development of corrective action plans and implementation of corrective and preventive actions. In his practice, Benjamin participates in the coordination of diligence reviews of transactions involving large pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers. He is well versed in the process of developing policy positions for life sciences clients and advocating such positions before FDA or other governmental bodies through written comments or in-person meetings . His practice also includes representing both clinical trial sponsors and clinical sites on clinical research issues, including government grant regulations, as well as drafting and negotiating the agreements necessary to perform clinical research. Benjamin has co-authored several books titled, Promotion of FDA-Regulated Medical Products and Introduction to the Due Diligence Process, Second Edition, both published by the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society. He has given numerous presentations on current health care industry topics, with titles such as Advertising and Promotion for Drugs, Devices and Biologics Using Social Media and Promotion of Investigational Drugs and Devices. He previously worked as a research chemist in the discovery group of a major research-based health care and pharmaceutical company. While in law school, he held the position of Executive Editor of the Cardozo Law Review.
