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.
- Amended Version of Judicial Redress Act Passes the Senate; Now Goes Back to the House - (Posted On Wednesday, February 10, 2016)
- Will Free Apps Soon Be Dead in Europe? - (Posted On Tuesday, February 09, 2016)
- Commission Press Release Outlines New EU-US “Privacy Shield” - (Posted On Wednesday, February 03, 2016)
- EU update: Safe Harbor 2.0 Deadline Passes Without Agreement; Art. 29 WP Views on BCRs and Model Clauses Expected Tomorrow - (Posted On Tuesday, February 02, 2016)
- Tying it all together: Safe Harbor and Security-Related Data Flows - (Posted On Friday, January 29, 2016)
- (So) What if there’s no Safe Harbor 2.0? re: European Data Protection - (Posted On Thursday, January 28, 2016)
- The Exception that Proves the Rule? European Court of Human Rights Okays Employer’s Access to Personal Communications of Employee In (Highly) Limited Circumstances - (Posted On Tuesday, January 19, 2016)
- Key EU Parliamentary Committee Votes to Adopt the General Data Protection Regulation - (Posted On Thursday, January 07, 2016)
- General EU Data Protection Regulation in Bullet Points - (Posted On Wednesday, December 16, 2015)
- EU Round-UP: Safe Harbor 2.0 and Upcoming National Challenges - (Posted On Wednesday, October 28, 2015)