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.
- EU sets sights on Google.com search results - (Posted On Friday, November 28, 2014)
- UK Information Commissioner’s Office Launches Consultation on Privacy Seal Program - (Posted On Wednesday, September 03, 2014)
- Timing Update for the EU Data Protection Regulation: No News Doesn’t Mean it’s Gone Away - (Posted On Thursday, July 24, 2014)
- Honing In On the New Rules for the Transfer of Personal Data Outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) - (Posted On Thursday, July 24, 2014)
- My Company Isn’t a Search Engine. Why Should I Care About Google Spain? Re: Internet Privacy - (Posted On Thursday, May 22, 2014)
- The Latest Thinking from Europe (While We Are Waiting for the Privacy Regulation) - (Posted On Monday, May 12, 2014)
- New Draft Processor to Sub-processor Model Clauses (Art. 29 Working Party) - Transfer of Personal Data in the EU - (Posted On Tuesday, April 08, 2014)
- New Timeline for Adoption of Definitive EU Data Protection Regulation - (Posted On Thursday, February 13, 2014)
- On the 9th Day of Privacy, the European Union Gave to Me . . - (Posted On Thursday, December 19, 2013)
- European Commission Proposes New Ground Rules for US Safe Harbor - (Posted On Friday, November 29, 2013)