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Matthew (Matt) Staples is a partner in the Austin office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Matt advises companies in numerous industries regarding privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity. Having worked extensively on privacy and cybersecurity matters since 2004, Matt possesses a depth of experience that allows him to help clients ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies in numerous industries, including autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence (AI), electronic gaming, fintech, payments, adtech, Internet of Things (IoT), software-as-a-service (SaaS), the metaverse, cloud computing, pharmaceuticals, and others, comply with numerous laws, regulations, self-regulatory requirements, industry standards, and best practices applicable to their collection, use, disclosure, transfer, and other processing of data, and their rights regarding the same, while helping them understand and manage related risks. He helps clients navigate issues arising from novel and innovative data practices by offering practical risk assessments and pragmatic advice.Matt's experience as a transactional lawyer allowed him to establish and manage a leading practice, one of the first in the U.S., focused on addressing privacy, cybersecurity, and data acquisition, use, retention, and processing in the context of a full range of transactions. He helps clients address these issues in the context of mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, securities offerings, outsourcing transactions, strategic alliances, and other corporate transactions, as well as in outsourcing agreements, services arrangements, vendor agreements, and other commercial transactions.Matt's experience includes representation of companies ranging in size from newly formed start-ups to large, multinational public companies in numerous industries.Matt couples a pragmatic, business-friendly approach with extensive experience and drafting and negotiation acumen, allowing him to design approaches to address compliance risks, obtain rights to use and otherwise process data, and help clients get their most critical deals done.

Listed skills include Privacy Law, Mergers And Acquisitions, Start Ups, Software Licensing, and 25 others.