Liza Cotter

Liza is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and a guest lecturer on cybersecurity at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She regularly speaks and writes on privacy and cybersecurity topics, including algorithmic bias and discrimination, biometric data processing, and the implications of new AI technologies. She has co-authored articles and chapters on IP and privacy topics, including contributions to Bloomberg Law and the Chambers Global Practice Guide, and has spoken on panels for organizations such as the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA) and Startup Boston.

Representative matters include:*

• Advised a prominent company in the gaming space as well as a large, multinational company in the hospitality industry in connection with separate high-profile data breaches
• Advised several companies in connection with FTC and state AG investigations and inquiries, including related to data use and transparency and consumer data rights
• Abnormal Security in its $210 million Series C financing round
• Advent Global Technology (AGT), as lead investor, in a Series B funding round for Cyware Labs, Inc.
• Advent International Corporation in its acquisition of a 45% stake in Conservice, LLC and the $3 billion merger of its portfolio companies Clearent LLC and Transaction Services Group Limited to form Xplor Technologies
• American Securities in its $1.37 billion take-private of Foundation Building Materials and its acquisition of Conair Corporation
• athenahealth, Inc. in its $5.7 billion sale to Veritas Capital and Evergreen Coast Capital and planned combination with Virence Health
• Atos S.E. in its $3.57 billion acquisition of Syntel, Inc.
• Austerlitz Acquisition Corporation I, a SPAC sponsored by Austerlitz Acquisition Sponsor, LP I, an affiliate of Trasimene Capital Management, LLC, in its $3.2 billion business combination with Wynn Interactive, Ltd.
• The Blackstone Group in the investment by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities in Sema4
• Brook & Whittle Limited (a portfolio company of Snow Phipps Group) in its acquisition of Label Impressions, Inc.
• Contentsquare in its $400 million Series F financing round
• Cornell Capital Partners and its portfolio company Knowlton Development Corporation (KDC/ONE) in KDC/ONE’s acquisition of Zobele Holding S.p.A. and the business combination of KDC/ONE and HCT Group Holdings Limited
• CPP Investments in the merger of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. with Kronos Incorporated in a deal that values the combined company at $22 billion on an enterprise value basis 
• Deluxe Corporation in its $960 million acquisition of First American Payment Systems, L.P.
• EQT Partners in its $485 million sale of Dorner Manufacturing Corporation
• Fiera Infrastructure, together with APG Group, the acquisition of the equity interests not already owned by Fiera in Conterra Ultra Broadband Holdings, Inc.
• Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp. II, a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Trasimene Capital Management, LLC and led by William P. Foley II, in a $9 billion business combination with Paysafe Limited
• Froneri International Limited in its $4 billion acquisition of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc.
• Genstar Capital, together with TA Associates, the acquisition of Orion Advisor Solutions, following the merger of Orion and Brinker Capital
• Gores Holdings IV, Inc., a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of The Gores Group, in its $16.1 billion business combination with United Wholesale Mortgage, LLC (UWM)
• Gores Metropoulos, Inc., a SPAC sponsored by affiliates of The Gores Group and Metropoulos & Co., in its $3.4 billion merger with Luminar Technologies, Inc.
• Guggenheim Securities and Morgan Stanley, as joint-lead bookrunners and representatives of a consortium of initial purchasers, on a $1.3 billion ABS bond offering by Jack in the Box Funding, LLC
• Hologram in its $65 million Series B Investment
• Irving Place Capital Management and Agiliti Holdco, Inc. (f/k/a Universal Hospital Services, Inc.) in Agliti’s combination with Federal Street Acquisition Corp. (FSAC), a SPAC sponsored by Thomas H. Lee Partners, in a new holding company formed by FSAC named Agiliti Health, Inc. (n/k/a Agiliti, Inc.), having an implied enterprise value of approximately $1.74 billion
• KIK Custom Products, Inc. (a portfolio company of Centerbridge Partners) in its sale of its KIK Personal Care business
• L’Oréal USA in its acquisition of Thayers Natural Remedies
• OMERS Private Equity in its acquisition of Paradigm Outcomes
• ORIX Capital Partners in its acquisition of NTI Connect
• Orva in the sale of a 50% stake to Trilantic Capital Partners
• Poseida Therapeutics on its strategic collaboration and license agreement with Roche
• Providence Strategic Growth Partners in its acquisitions of Next Glass, Inc. and majority stakes in Kenect, LLC and Singlewire Software, LLC; and the sale of its controlling interest in Tribute Technology Holdings, LLC
• PSP Investments in its minority investment in Alliant Insurance Services, Inc.
• Quest Diagnostics Inc. in its acquisition of Blueprint Genetics
• RegCell in connection with its $45.8 million of funding, consisting of $8.5 million in seed financing – co-led by The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners and Fast Track Initiative – and up to $37.3 million in nondilutive funding from Japan’s Agency for Medical Research and Development
• Silver Lake Sumeru in its sale of Velocity Technology Solutions, Inc.
• SoftBank Vision Fund, together with Toyota Motor Corporation and DENSO Corporation, in a $1 billion investment in the Advanced Technologies Group of Uber Technologies Inc.
• Susquehanna Growth Equity LLC in its minority investment in Real Capital Analytics
• TimeClock Plus, LLC (a portfolio company of Providence Equity Partners) in its acquisition of Humanity.com Inc. (n/k/a Humanity.com LLC)
• TPG Global in the acquisition by TPG Pace Holdings Corp., a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of TPG Pace Group, of the stock of Accel Entertainment, Inc.
• TPG Growth in its preferred stock minority investment in Calm.com
• TPG in its participation as a minority investor in Trumid 
• Trive Capital in its acquisition of Valor Healthcare Inc.
• Truebill in its $1.275 billion sale to Rocket Companies
• Zoom Video Communications in its acquisition of Solvvy

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Weil.

Liza also maintains an active pro bono practice, which includes assisting nonprofits, particularly in the educational technology space, with privacy-related compliance matters.

Liza received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served on the University of Virginia Law Review. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Boston College.