Lara

Sevener

Lara has more than 20 years of experience advising clients on technology-related transactions, both as a lawyer in private practice, where she advised clients on both the supplier and customer sides across a broad range of sectors, and as in-house counsel to a number of market-leading national and multinational organizations. Lara draws on her experience as in-house commercial, procurement, and technology counsel to provide results-oriented, business-practical legal advice and obtain market-leading positions in the contracts she negotiates.

Lara draws on her deep experience negotiating technology transactions to counsel clients on a broad range of technology matters, including digital transformation, strategic sourcing, business process and other strategic outsourcing transactions, software as a service, anything as a service, application support and maintenance, software licensing and development, end-user support, digital advertising and marketing, and strategic alliance and ecosystem agreements.

Lara has represented international and domestic businesses, including publicly traded corporations, privately held companies, utilities, and partnerships in multimillion-dollar transactions domestically and globally. She regularly advises on the use, licensing, acquisition, and commercialization of intellectual property, including matters regarding privacy and data protection. Lara is well versed in transactional data privacy and advises clients on the most effective contractual mechanisms to comply with US and international data privacy laws and attendant issues that frequently arise in cross-border commercial and technology transactions.