Reassess, Reinforce, Resolve: Cybersecurity Best Practices in Health Care

Amy C. Pimentel (CIPM) advises clients on global data protection, privacy and cybersecurity. She is skilled at harmonizing requirements across jurisdictions and legal regimes to build practical and business-focused global privacy and cybersecurity programs. She also helps multinational companies understand privacy rules and balance their legal risk when entering new markets or breaking into new or non-traditional industries.

Amy provides day-to-day product counseling and advises on data strategies. She works with clients across industries – spanning the health care/life sciences industries to big tech, finance, media and consumer products – to help them leverage and transfer data in a compliant way. She also partners with multi-disciplinary teams to advise on product development, digital advertising, artificial intelligence/machine learning and other emerging technologies to incorporate privacy-by-design and security-by-design principles. Her pragmatic approaches to managing data enable clients to achieve their business objectives while remaining compliant with their dynamic regulatory environment.

In addition to regulatory and product counseling, Amy also drafts and negotiates complex data arrangements and manages privacy and cyber risks in corporate transactions and outsourcing. She advises clients on effective due diligence strategies when vetting risks of purchasing and disclosing data and regularly partners with transaction co-counsel to evaluate the regulatory impact of specific privacy and cybersecurity matters, including government investigations and security breaches. She also companies on their legal obligations with respect to supply chain management and third-party risk management.