Boris Segalis

Mr. Segalis advises clients across industries including financial services, fintech, insurtech, technology, big data and data brokerage, life sciences, cybersecurity, consumer product and services, e-commercial, media and entertainment, gaming, hospitality, transportation, prop tech, government, and others.

His recent representative experience includes advising:

Strategic Counseling

• Advise multiple companies on the development and implementation of digital contact tracing and facility access solutions designed to mitigate the effects of COVID-19
• Advise an enterprise solutions provider on the implementation of biometric identification for call recording and use of data for machine learning
• Advise a business intelligence company on the collection of business contact information in the US and Europe
• Advise a global cybersecurity software company on compliance with CCPA in connection with threat intelligence data collection
• Advise clinical stage life sciences companies on collection and cross-border transfer of clinical trial data, and engagement with vendors, CRO and other partners
• Advise a connected medical device company on engagement with clinical trial partners
• Advise a fintech company on the implementation of a comprehensive information security program, compliance with the FCRA Red Flags Rule, compliance with NY DFS cybersecurity regulations and implementation of a third party risk management process
• Advise a transportation authority on the implementation of the development and implementation of a vendor management program
• Advise a proptech company on the establishment of a consumer reporting agency, subject to FCRA
• Advise multiple fintech and insurech companies on compliance with the CCPA and the delineation of CCPA and GLBA data.
• Advise a global media company on the implementation of online marketing programs and attribution tracking.
• Advise a financial services and payment company on the establishment of data collection and sharing relationships with merchants and issuers
• Advise a restaurant mobile ordering platform on compliance with CCPA and GLBA in connection with engagement with restaurants globally
• Advise a focus group provider on privacy practice in connection with biometric data collection for product evaluation
• Advise a data analytics company on the development of a variety of data analytics products and services leveraging clinical trial data
• Advise a digital health company on the collection and processing of user and coach data
• Advise a European financial services company on compliance with GDPR in connection with a service providing background checks for fund managers globally
• Advise a digital identity company on the development and implementation of digital identity products and partnerships
• Advise a global travel agency on compliance with the GDPR, including to facilitate engagement with customers
• Advise a global media company on compliance with GDPR and CCPA

Incidents and Investigations

• Advise large retailers on the handling of consequences of the Shopify data incident, including notification of regulators and over 10 million consumer globally, and follow-up regulatory inquiries
• Advise a business process software companies on a data incident that affected over 600K users globally
• Advise a global travel company on payment card incident that affected over 1 million consumers globally
• Represent an AI photo editing app in an FTC privacy inquiry, and resolve the inquiry with the investigation closed
• Represent a local threat information provider in an FTC privacy inquiry, and resolve the inquiry with the investigation closed
• Represent a transportation authority in connection with a vendor cyber incident involving emergency communications
• Serve as the court-appointed consumer privacy ombudsman in the CraftWorks bankruptcy proceedings
• Advise a IoT crib manufacturer in connection with attempts to publicize false allegations of the device’s cyber vulnerabilities
• Advise a life sciences company on several cyber incidents affecting clinical trial data
• Advise a leading fintech company on a cyber fraud investigation

Transactions

• Advise BroadCom on the acquisition of Symantec
• Advise a privacy equity firm on the acquisition of a biometric interviewing platform
• Advise a fintech company on the development of white label / API lead generation platform for financial institutions
• 4C Insights on its agreement to sell to software advertising provider Mediaocean, a portfolio company of Vista Equity Partners*
• SevenRooms, a data-driven guest experience platform for the hospitality industry, on its $50 million Series B funding round*
• Aircall on its $65 million Series C financing*
• PeopleDoc, a cloud-based HR company, on its agreement to sell to Ultimate Software, a provider of human capital management software solutions, for approximately $300 million*
• Arlo Technologies, the leading internet-connected camera brand, on its agreement to enter into a strategic partnership with Verisure Sàrl*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.