Sue is a commercial lawyer with extensive experience advising clients regarding EU privacy regulations as well as life sciences and technology transactions. Sue is based in the UK, and her work is frequently international in nature. Sue is qualified in England & Wales and California, as well as being a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe. Start-ups to global companies seek her counsel on European data protection matters. For her life sciences clients, she helps structure large-scale drug development and marketing collaborations, licensing deals, spin-offs, and other agreements involving healthcare IT, consulting, R&D, manufacturing, and distribution arrangements.
Susan is qualified in England and Wales as well as California, and has experience practicing law in both the United States and the United Kingdom. She has been based in Mintz's London office since September 2007, and worked in the United Kingdom for another international law firm from 2001 to 2004. Susan is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E).
Susan works with clients primarily on European data protection compliance and licensing, collaborations, and commercial matters in the fields of clean tech, high tech, mobile media, and life sciences. She has represented a broad range of clients, from start-up companies to international industry leaders, and has significant experience with cross-border transactions.
Within the life sciences, Susan has assisted biotech, pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and medical device companies with licenses, collaborations, spin-offs, and agreements relating to consulting services, R&D, manufacturing, and distribution.
Within the high-tech and mobile media fields, Susan has advised clients on deals involving the sale and licensing of intellectual property rights; multi-tier distribution arrangements; OEM and value-added reseller arrangements; research, development, and consulting activities; and the provision and outsourcing of technology services. She has assisted mobile media and Internet services clients with service agreements and content licenses, including user-generated content and web-to-mobile deals.
Susan’s clean tech experience includes advising on a joint venture for the development and marketing of electric cars and various agreements relating to the development and sale of fuel cells.
She has spoken on data protection, open source software, European antitrust and technology transfer law, and other intellectual property and technology law issues at a number of webinars and conferences in the United States and the United Kingdom.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Susan L. Foster, Ph.D.
- European Commission Publishes Proposed New Data Transfer Agreement - (Posted On Friday, November 13, 2020)
- EU Data Protection Regulators Issue Critical Draft Guidance on Personal Data Transfers - (Posted On Thursday, November 12, 2020)
- Privacy Shield Invalidated by Top EU Court; Standard Contractual Clauses Upheld (But There Are Still Major Challenges Ahead) - (Posted On Thursday, July 16, 2020)
- Do you transfer personal data from the EU to the US? Important Decision due July 16 - (Posted On Wednesday, July 08, 2020)
- Brexit Transition Period: Guidance from Information Commissioner’s Office - (Posted On Monday, February 03, 2020)
- Revised Guidelines on the Territorial Scope of the GDPR and Local Representatives - (Posted On Monday, December 02, 2019)
- Brexit and UK-US data transfers: What’s the plan? - (Posted On Tuesday, March 26, 2019)
- That Local Representative Problem . . . and the New Guidelines on the Territorial Scope of the GDPR (Part I) - (Posted On Friday, November 30, 2018)
- European Parliament Sets a Deadline for Reforming Privacy Shield – But Don’t Panic (Yet) - (Posted On Thursday, July 05, 2018)
- HAPPY GDPR DAY!! - (Posted On Friday, May 25, 2018)