Gareth Kristensen Bio

Gareth Kristensen practice focuses on intellectual property, technology, data, and commercial matters. Gareth advises leading multinational corporations, private equity firms, and high-growth companies on the IP/IT, data, and commercial contracts aspects of M&A, strategic investments, joint ventures and collaborations, licensing transactions, complex carve-outs and business separations, manufacturing, supply and distribution arrangements, co-marketing and co-promotion arrangements, capital markets offerings and financings. He has particular experience in the life sciences, financial services, and technology industries. His practice covers the full range of IP rights including patents, trademarks, copyright, design rights, database rights, and trade secrets, and he has significant experience in structuring and negotiating patent, trademark, software, and data licenses. Gareth also advises extensively on artificial intelligence (AI), data protection (UK and EU GDPR), privacy, and cybersecurity matters, both in the context of corporate and commercial transactions and advice on compliance, litigation, crisis management, and incident response. He holds the CIPP/E accreditation (Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe) from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), and he has participated in the UK Financial Markets Law Committee’s Data Protection Working Group. Gareth joined the firm in 2011. He was resident in the New York office in 2018 and was previously on secondment with GlaxoSmithKline in London.