Erica’s practice focuses on strategic transactions and intellectual property asset strategy, protection, licensing and commercialization. She specializes in corporate partnering, strategic alliances, data privacy and protection and technology commercialization, and has served as a guest lecturer on these topics at Cornell.

Erica acts as an outsourced general counsel and strategic advisor to a wide variety of venture-backed companies in the artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, software, consumer internet, bioscience, media, healthcare, telecommunications, financial technology and entertainment technology industries. Erica also represents these companies in negotiations of commercial agreements, and advises these companies and leading venture capital firms on technology, intellectual property, commercial and privacy aspects of venture capital financings, mergers, acquisitions and similar deals.

Erica is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP), holding the U.S. private-sector privacy certification granted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), the global standard in privacy certification. Erica leverages her strong foundation in US private-sector privacy laws and regulations, and understanding of the legal requirements for the responsible transfer of sensitive personal data to/from the US, the EU and other jurisdictions, to counsel clients on risk and opportunity when handling personal data in their business transactions and product development.