Current Cosmetics Ingredients Challenges: How to Navigate a Newly Painted Landscape

KAYLA CRISTALES is a senior associate in the FDA Regulatory and Compliance Practice Group at Haynes and Boone, LLP. Haynes Boone is an Am Law 100 firm, with over 650 lawyers in 19 offices around the world, providing services for more than 40 major legal practices. Kayla’s practice focuses on transactional and regulatory matters for FDA-regulated clients, with particular expertise in cosmetics and personal care products. For example, Kayla regularly counsels cosmetic and OTC drug brand owners, retailers, and distributors in connection with packaging and label compliance and claim-related risk assessments; substantiation reviews; product classification analyses; manufacturing, development, commercialization, and supply agreement negotiation; and advertising, marketing, and other promotional communications, among many other areas involving the wide range of often complex and overlapping federal and state laws and regulations governing cosmetics, drugs, and medical devices, respectively. Kayla also has substantial experience in conducting diligence, negotiating key contractual terms, assisting with post-closing transitions, and other key elements of mergers and acquisitions involving FDA-regulated parties, as well as in advising issuers and underwriters on material regulatory matters and related considerations in connection with securities offerings and SEC filings in the life sciences space.