About

Corporate and commercial legal adviser Orla Cullen has accumulated premium private practice and in-house legal experience over the course of her 15-year professional career. Cullen currently serves as the deputy general counsel for IAC Applications, a company that has formed one of the world’s largest distributors of utility applications, with its products downloaded more than one million times a day across desktop, browser and mobile devices. As an operating business unit of tech giant IAC, it has been ranked by Fortune magazine’s annual standing of the world’s most admired companies in the internet services and retailing sector for many years. Cullen supports the company’s general counsel – who is based in New York – by providing specialist advice to the IAC Applications business on corporate, commercial, IT, IP, privacy and employment matters. Cullen has advised on complex technology transactional agreements for various mobile, browser, desktop applications and online marketing transactions, whilst staying abreast of the ever-evolving Irish and EU data protection laws. Cullen is also behind supporting and advising on matters associated with new product development, looking through web and software documentation, including End User License Agreements (EULA), terms of service, privacy policies and other consumer-facing agreements. Cullen has served on the board of directors of the European headquarters of IAC Search & Media Europe since March 2016. She has also enjoyed successful spells at Bank of Ireland as a commercial legal counsel and associate director for KPMG Ireland.