Today, most businesses have global operations with clients, providers, subcontractors or distributors abroad.  In addition, whether a Fortune 500 company or a start-up, a company has a worldwide presence through its website. In the 21st century, it is impossible to ignore the dramatic shrinking of the boundaries, or the increased reach of the jurisdiction of foreign courts and their attempts at controlling matters that may affect the local citizen.

We have represented companies doing business abroad and foreign entities doing business in the United States in joint ventures, cross-border distribution, licensing or technology transfers. These activities have involved numerous transactions and multi-lingual transactions.

To perform these services we have worked in cooperation with our foreign counsels, who are part of leading information technology law firms located throughout the world.

More specifically, we provide the following services:

• Review and Evaluation of Company Practices:
  • Review and evaluation of company's internal procedures and policies with respect to creation, maintenance, use, trans-border transfer of employee or client information databases and marketing databases
  • Review and evaluation of website information privacy practices

• Privacy and Security Procedures and Policies:
  • Development, drafting, and implementation of worldwide company privacy and information security policies
  • Notices to and contracts with personnel and other data subjects
  • Personal information transfer agreements

• Compliance:
  • Compliance with E.U. Directive Principles
  • Implementation of privacy laws of the E.U. Member States and other countries in the operations of global multinational corporations
  • Creation, maintenance and use of databases of employee information, databases of client information, marketing databases
  • Intra-company and inter-company transfer of HR data, client data, marketing information
  • Personal information transfer agreements
  • Registration with foreign data protection agencies

• Counseling and Training:
  • Counseling on global privacy and information security issues
  • Compliance with foreign laws restricting the transfer of personal information outside of the country
  • Safe Harbor self-certification program

• Global Transactions (European Union, Japan, Asia Pacific, South America):
  • Outsourcing
  • Data processing services agreements
  • Distribution, marketing and license of technology