Deborah J. Hinck

Deborah Hinck is an associate in the Boston office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Data & Technology Transactions Practice, advising clients on a range of intellectual property and privacy and data security matters, in connection with strategic alliances, joint ventures, M&A and financing transactions, intellectual property strategy and commercialization, intellectual property licensing, development agreements and other commercial arrangements, and privacy and data initiatives.

Drawing on both her engineering and legal experience in the industry, Deborah advises 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.

Her transactional work includes advising on the intellectual property, technology transactions and data privacy and security aspects of:

• Commercial contracts and intellectual property licensing agreements
• Strategic mergers and acquisitions, alliances, partnerships, and joint ventures
• General advisement and negotiation of intellectual property 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
• Consumer protection matters
• Privacy and data security policies
• Cybersecurity terms in commercial transactions
• SEC 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)
  • CAN-SPAM

Deborah received her JD, magna cum laude, from Boston University School of Law, where she received the Edward F. Hennessey Distinguished Scholar award, the Paul J. Liacos Scholar award, and the Michael Fricklas and Donna Astion Prize in Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law. While in law school, she served as an extern for the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section of the Department of Justice.

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