Jones Day Advises GM on Effort to Ramp Up Ventilator Production (1)

General Motors Co. turned to longtime legal adviser Jones Day to help handle a partnership with Ventec Life Systems Inc. to produce more ventilators and other medical equipment needed to battle the new coronavirus pandemic.

The effort, known as “Project V,” will explore the possibility of using technology designed to make components for cars to increase the production of ventilators, according to Bloomberg News.

“With GM’s help, Ventec will increase ventilator production,” said a statement from Ventec CEO Christopher Kiple, an attorney who joined the Bothell, Wash.-based medical equipment manufacturer in 2015 and became its top executive last ...