In “From Sea to Shining Sea: French and US Sunshine Laws,” (Law360 subscription required), Reed Smith attorneys Elizabeth Carder-Thompson and Daniel Kadar discuss recent legislation from both sides of the Atlantic designed to increase the transparency of relationships between drug and medical device manufacturers on one hand and physicians and teaching hospitals on the other. While both the U.S. and French Sunshine Acts are intended to address the same general issue, there are several key differences between the two resulting from the respective environments in which they were passed. In addition to providing an overview of the legislation and its immediate effects, the article also discusses some of the compliance issues that have resulted from these laws, including determination of the extent to which non-U.S. headquartered entities or non-U.S. based physicians are subject to U.S. Sunshine Act requirements, and regulation of the amount, organization, and frequency of data disclosure required under the French Sunshine Act.