Prior to joining Polsinelli, Allison spent several years serving as in-house counsel to privately held and publicly traded companies that operated in highly regulated industries including health care and financial services. While in-house she served on a variety of executive-sponsored strategic planning committees tasked with implementing initiatives such as information technology transformation, business process improvement, and compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Allison’s experience working closely with business leaders influences her approach to providing legal guidance – an approach which is centered around identifying practical solutions that enable business growth and development. Her practice consists of negotiating complex licensing and technology transactions and providing guidance regarding privacy and data security matters. In addition, she provides product counseling for offerings that leverage data analytics.   

Licensing and Technology Transactions

Allison’s experience negotiating a wide variety of sophisticated intellectual property transactions allows her to efficiently negotiate similar transactions for different clients while achieving desired levels of risk mitigation and revenue generation on behalf of those clients.