Deborah Hinck

Practice Areas

Deborah Hinck advises clients on a full spectrum of intellectual property, privacy, and data security matters.

Deborah draws on both her engineering and legal experience in the industry to counsel clients across a range of sectors, with a particular focus on cloud computing and data strategy, AI and machine learning, entertainment, video gaming, SaaS, and complex technology transactions.

She regularly advises on the IP, technology transactions and data privacy, and security aspects of:

- Commercial contracts and IP licensing agreements

- Strategic mergers and acquisitions, alliances, partnerships, and joint ventures

- IP matters related to private equity and venture capital transactions

- Capital markets transactions and financings

- Manufacture, supply, and resale agreements

- Open-source licensing

- Customer and end-user arrangements

- Artificial intelligence maters

- Consumer protection matters

- Privacy and data security policies

- Cybersecurity terms in commercial transactions

- US Securities and Exchange Commission cybersecurity disclosure

- Privacy and data security issues in connection with product development

- Data ownership and data rights

- Privacy and data security regulations, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and other state privacy laws, Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and CAN-SPAM

While in law school, she served as an extern for the Department of Justice’s Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section.

Before law school, Deborah was a software engineer and business and strategy development manager at Microsoft from 2002 to 2014.