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Daniel E. Schnapp

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:02:30 +0000

Dan Schnapp is a corporate and commercial transactional lawyer with more than 30 years of experience advising clients on high-stakes, strategic transactions at the intersection of intellectual property, technology and digital media. His practice focuses on structuring and negotiating strategic transactions that govern how IP and content assets, technology and data are developed, distributed, monetized and protected across evolving digital and interactive environments.

Dan has unique experience counseling clients across multiple industry verticals on the impact of emerging, transformative and disruptive technologies to their respective businesses, including generative artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, for which he assists clients in negotiating complex global licensing arrangements, managing data sourcing and usage rights, model training and output exploitation, preserving and enforcing IP portfolios, and the mitigation and allocation of risk across multiparty commercial frameworks.

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Rajesh De

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:50 +0000

Raj De leads the firm’s global Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice, as well as the firm’s National Security practice, and serves as a member of the firm’s Congressional Investigations & Crisis Management team. He was previously the Managing Partner of Mayer Brown’s Washington DC office, which is comprised of more than two hundred lawyers. Raj also chairs the firm’s Artificial Intelligence Task Force. After nearly two decades in private practice and public service across all three branches of the United States government, Raj is one of the most trusted voices in Washington. He has held senior appointments in the White House, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Defense (DOD). Raj returned to Mayer Brown in 2015 after serving as General Counsel at the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Since returning to the firm, Raj has received numerous recognitions, including by American Lawyer (“Lateral All-Star”), Washingtonian magazine (“Top Lawyer” and among the “Most Influential People in Washington DC”), The National Law Journal (“Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Trailblazer”), and Cybersecurity Docket (“Incident Response 30”), as well as a top ranking by Chambers USA for Incident Response (Band 1) and membership in the Legal 500 “Hall of Fame” for Cyber Law.

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Joe Pennell

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:50 +0000

Joe Pennell advises clients on digital infrastructure, digital transformation and outsourced services transactions, including with respect to generative, predictive, and agentic AI, data center leasing and services, customer-facing digital platforms, hyperscale cloud, SaaS, ERP, blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), software licensing and implementation, and the outsourcing of business processes (including HR, procurement, facilities management, claims processing, and finance and accounting services), IT infrastructure services and support, managed network services, and application development and maintenance.

Joe is highly ranked by Chambers USA 2024 and clients say “Joe Pennell brings stellar value to our work not only from the legal perspective but also from a strategy standpoint. He brilliantly balances the legal risks with the objectives we’re trying to accomplish.” Joe is also recognized by Legal 500 US 2023 as a “Next Generation Partner.”

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Conor J. Dale

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:21 +0000

Conor Dale is a principal in the San Francisco, California, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He has experience representing employers in state and federal employment litigation including single plaintiff discrimination, harassment, retaliation and breach of contract claims and wage and hour class action experience. He has particular expertise in contractual arbitration and representing employers in the technology industry, including defending companies and boards of directors from claims filed by current and former c suite executives.

Conor also has experience advising and counseling employers on all aspects of California and Federal employment law.

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Ilissa Samplin

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:10 +0000

Ilissa Samplin is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Ilissa serves as co-chair of the firm’s Media, Entertainment and Technology Practice Group. She also is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Trials Practice Groups.

Ilissa’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and trials, entertainment and technology disputes, and intellectual property litigation and counseling. She has represented corporate and individual clients in the media, entertainment, and technology industries in a wide range of litigation in both federal and state court, including breach of contract, unfair competition, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and antitrust matters. Ilissa also regularly advises clients on intellectual property policies and compliance. In addition, she has experience drafting life rights, intellectual property, and licensing agreements and cease and desist letters for clients in the entertainment and technology sectors, as well as advising entertainment clients on profit participation and related accounting practices.

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Sonja Ruttmann

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:01:10 +0000

Sonja Ruttmann is a partner in the Munich office of Gibson Dunn. She is a member of its Mergers and Acquisitions, Business Restructuring and Reorganization, Private Equity, and Capital Markets Practice Groups.

Sonja specializes in private and public M&A, corporate law, and private equity and has advised on many complex domestic and international cross-border mergers and acquisitions including formation and dissolution of joint ventures and carve-out scenarios as well as private equity and venture capital transactions. She represents clients, public and private, in auctions, asset, and share deals as well as mergers across a broad range of sectors, including in particular in the fields of automotive (including autonomous driving), technology and engineering, capital markets, energy and infrastructure, as well as digital security and cybersecurity.

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Kate Partridge

tthorp — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:56 +0000

My experience expands a range of areas including GDPR compliance programs, AI, commercial data sharing arrangements, life sciences, outsourcing, e-commerce, licensing and technology. In addition, I am a Certified Information Privacy Professional (Europe) (CIPP/E) and have a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Information Systems from The University of Melbourne.

I have completed a number of successful secondments including for two of the UK’s leading telecommunications providers and most recently implementing GDPR compliance programmes at a global real estate investment company and for a UK charity which hosts a large-scale biomedical database and research resource. These secondments and my background in commercial technology has given me a valuable insight and understanding of the demands and overall commercial priorities for clients, particularly in the context of data protection issues.

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Abigail M. Green

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:10 +0000

Abigail concentrates her practice in the areas of employment litigation, employment law, and counseling. She helps a diverse array of employers avoid litigation and/or business interruption through training and counseling on issues such as compliance with discrimination and leave laws; evaluating and discharging employees; drug and alcohol testing; and developing legally sound personnel policies and employee handbooks. When disputes are inevitable, Abigail defends employers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and nationwide in matters such as state and federal single-plaintiff actions involving harassment, discrimination, retaliation, violations of wage and hour law, and restrictive covenant issues.

Abigail also assists and defends employers through agency investigations. She also has experience defending employers in federal and state class actions.

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Jesse Snyder

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:17:06 +0000

Jesse Snyder is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of King & Spalding and a member of the firm’s Technology, Government Matters, Appellate, and Administrative Law practice groups. Jesse’s practice focuses on data privacy, AI, cybersecurity, aerospace compliance, intellectual property, appeals, strategic counseling, and bespoke cross-disciplinary solutions for clients facing significant risk. In short, Jesse solves his clients’ toughest problems.

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Karl Hopkins

tthorp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:16:31 +0000

Karl Hopkins is an internationally recognized legal advisor with extensive experience in infrastructure, energy, compliance, and cybersecurity and privacy matters. Karl counsels clients on a variety of matters involving international infrastructure development, arbitration, energy, business and political intelligence, and security and threat analysis. He also provides strategic advice regarding global operations, including the performance of due diligence and compliance investigations, physical and cybersecurity assessments, country and political risk assessments, and threat analyses. This includes providing enterprise risk management and organizational resiliency advice. He has acted as the Chief Security Officer for a large multinational organization where he was responsible for the development and oversight of the information security, physical security, compliance, investigation, threat and political analysis, data retention, incident response, and insider threat programs.

Karl also provides clients with strategic and legal advice regarding crisis and incident response, and serves as incident response counsel for several global institutions. He has managed various types of crises, including physical security breaches and cyber incidents, insider threats, and reputational impacts. He assists clients with the formulation and implementation of communication and crisis management policies and protocols.

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