Grace Erskine is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Data & Technology Transactions Practice.
Grace advises clients across a range of sectors including private equity, financial services, social media, technology, and ecommerce in connection with:
Commercial contracts
Intellectual property licensing
The regulation of online platforms and intermediary services
Global data privacy matters
Diligence of private equity and venture capital transactions
Prior to qualification, she trained in the firm's London and Hong Kong offices. Grace has also completed a secondment with the in-house legal team of a leading international investment bank where she worked on a variety of commercial contracts, including software, intellectual property, and master services agreements for technology procurement.
Experience
Grace's experience includes:
Advising a website development company and social media company on the application of the EU’s Copyright Directive to their respective businesses
Advising a consortium, led by Astorg and Cinven, on their acquisition of LGC, a global leader in the life sciences tools sector, in respect of European data privacy and commercial contracts matters
Advising Silver Lake Partners in relation to European data privacy matters on its US$750 million investment in Jio Platforms, an Indian telecommunications company
Assisting financial institutions to collaborate with third party wealth management software solutions
Negotiating transitional services agreements for a variety of financial institutions and commercial entities
Negotiating a software licence development agreement for an Arabic-language multiplatform news service in the Middle East
Advising a leading consultancy firm on its global privacy impact assessment process to ensure compliance with privacy laws to minimize privacy and security risks
Advising a publicly listed China-headquartered technology and internet group on global data privacy compliance for cross-border streaming services and online games
Advising a digital telecommunications client in relation to compliance with data privacy laws including coordinating global privacy advice for an international roll-out of a cloud phone system
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