The privacy and cybersecurity team at Fenwick & West LLP provides ‘timely, appropriate, thorough and practical’ advice to clients across the technology, life sciences, ecommerce, and financial services industries. Team co-head Tyler Newby chairs the firm’s IP & complex litigation practice from San Francisco, and handles a range of consumer class actions, regulatory matters, and commercial disputes matters. Michael Sussmann joined the team from Perkins Coie LLP in April 2023, now co-leading the practice from Washington DC and bringing particular experience in cybercrime. The expanding team also promoted to partner San Francisco-based David Feder in January 2024, whose practice involves government investigations along with civil and regulatory litigation. In Silicon Valley, counsel Ana Razmazma is particularly recommended for M&A involving privacy issues. San Francisco counsel Brent Tuttle is noted for his ‘rare combination of legal acumen and commercial sensibility’.
Testimonials
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- 'The expertise the Fenwick team has on Privacy, Security and Cyber law is exemplary. Moreover, they provide thorough and practical advice.'
- 'Brent Tuttle from Fenwick and the other team members from Fenwick provide easy to understand practical advice. Their guidance is timely, appropriate, thorough and practical.'
Key clients
- Figma
- Wurl
Work highlights
- Advising Morphic Therapeutic (NAS: MORF), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing oral small-molecule integrin therapeutics for the treatment of serious chronic diseases.
- Represented Don Roberto Jewelers in its defense of a class action complaint arising out of a ransomware attack and data breach that accessed the personal information of approximately 100,000 customers and employees.