Company: HRTX
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-028374
Chunk: 80

Company: HERON THERAPEUTICS, INC. /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 80
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In addition to experiencing a security incident, third parties may gather, collect, or infer sensitive information about us from public sources, data brokers, or other means that reveals competitively sensitive details about our organization and could be used to undermine our competitive advantage or market position.

Changes in government policies, laws, and regulations and with respect to the government workforce may have a negative impact on our business and the markets in which we operate.

The laws and regulations governing our operations, as well as their interpretation, may change from time to time, and new laws and regulations may be enacted. Similarly, operational changes at government agencies, including actions intended to reduce government spending at agencies that regulate significant parts of our business, such as the FDA and CMS, could have a significant impact on the implementation of laws and regulations that impact our business. Accordingly, any change in these laws or regulations, changes in their interpretation, or newly enacted laws or regulations and any failure by us to comply with these laws or regulations could require changes to certain of our business practices, negatively impact our operations, cash flow or financial condition, impose additional costs on us or otherwise adversely affect our business. For example, U.S. trade policy under the new administration, including potential new or increased tariffs, along with changing trade policies in China, Mexico, the U.K., Canada, and parts of Europe, may impact global trade, create sourcing challenges with respect to raw materials and instruments and increase our costs, potentially harming our business. 

Moreover, uncertainty with respect to legislation, regulation and government policy at the federal, state and local levels, including as a result of the change in administration, has introduced new and difficult-to-quantify macroeconomic and geopolitical risks with potentially far-reaching implications. There are currently a number of laws and regulations in the U.S. that have recently been adopted with the change in presidential administration but not yet implemented or have been proposed or are being considered to which we or our customers may become subject, including healthcare reform initiatives and potential spending and tax proposals, but at this time their impact on our business and results of operations remains uncertain. Changes in legislation, regulation or policy increase the likelihood that we will fail to appropriately adapt to changes in our compliance obligations, particularly when such changes happen abruptly, such as following a change in government. Any of the foregoing changes could increase our litigation and regulatory exposure, directly impact our results of operations and cash flows, adversely affect our ability to provide our products, or adversely impact the demand for our products. Such changes may also impact our business by creating increased