Arnie Friede is the Principal in Arnold I. Friede & Associates, a firm specializing in FDA-related legal and regulatory matters. Arnie is a widely respected food and drug law counselor and advocate with significant advertising law, health care law, First Amendment, environmental, and commercial and transactional experience. He has a long history of direct involvement in successfully representing clients in FDA-regulated matters beginning as an Associate Chief Counsel in the FDA Chief Counsel’s Office, as well as a broad spectrum of senior in-house legal experience across multiple FDA-regulated industries. Arnie has been involved for nearly 35 years in a broad range of FDA and other agency-regulated businesses, including the life sciences, such as pharmaceutical and biotech, medical device, medical information, disease management, and over-the-counter drugs, as well as in the food, cosmetic, chemical and other industries.