Alan G. Minsk is a Partner and Chair of the Food & Drug Practice Team of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, located in Atlanta, Georgia and Washington, D.C.  Prior to his association with AGG, he worked with a Washington, D.C. food and drug law firm.  Mr. Minsk advises pharmaceutical, medical device, and food companies on all legal and regulatory matters relating to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and certain matters concerning the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Federal Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.  He counsels clients and has spoken and written on a wide variety of FDA-related issues, including regulatory strategies and life cycle management, combination products, FDA enforcement, FDA inspections, corporate compliance, market exclusivity, product promotion and advertising, product liability, clinical trials and imports and exports. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the RAPS Focus magazine, the Center for Communication Compliance, and the Law Journal Newsletters’ Product Liability Law & Strategy journals and serves on the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy Regulatory Affairs Advisory Board. Mr. Minsk was recently selected as Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers in Life Sciences: Regulatory/Compliance and was selected for inclusion in the International Who’s Who of Life Sciences Lawyers 2013 and 2014.  Nominees are selected based upon comprehensive, independent survey work with both general counsel and private practice lawyers worldwide. He serves on the Board of GaBio, the PDMA Alliance (as the General Counsel), and the Atlanta Jewish Academy. He is the former Georgia Chapter Leader of the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society, and is also a member of the Food and Drug Law Institute, Conexx: America Israel Business Connector and serves on the External Advisory Board of the Atlantic Pediatric Device Consortium (APDC). He is a graduate of Brandeis University and Georgetown University Law Center.