Katherine Varker is counsel to the firm's Privacy practice group and the Tech Group. Ms. Varker's practice focuses on licensing and intellectual property law, preparing and negotiating master services agreements, license agreements, consulting agreements, support services agreements, distribution agreements, and publishing agreements. In addition, Ms. Varker counsels clients on issues relating to privacy, new media, and advertising law.
Ms. Varker also advises on intellectual property aspects of due diligence evaluations relating to merger, acquisition and venture capital transactions. Also significant to her career at Lowenstein Sandler is her experience gained in merger and acquisition transactions and representing angel investors and venture capital funds in public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities.
Ms. Varker's work has earned her recognition as a Rising Star in the 2009 edition of Super Lawyers. She received her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 2003 and was a member of Law Review. She received her B.A., cum laude, in English and Spanish literature from Muhlenberg College in 1994.
In the summer of 2001, Ms. Varker served as a Summer Law Clerk for the Honorable Federal Magistrate Judge Douglas F. Eaton in the Southern District of New York. Prior to law school, she was the Subsidiary Rights Manager at Farrar, Straus & Giroux Book Publishers in New York, where she licensed film, translation, first serial, book club, large print and audio rights.
Publications
· New EU Data Protection Regulations Could Mean Hefty Fines For U.S. Companies: How You Should Prepare
Chartis Legal Insights, Spring 2012
Mary Hildebrand, Katherine Varker
· White House Proposes A Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights
Privacy Law Alert, March 1, 2012
Mary Hildebrand, Katherine Varker
· March 1, 2012 Deadline for Amending Vendor Contracts to Comply with Massachusetts Data Security Regulations
Privacy Law Alert, February 2012
Mary Hildebrand, Katherine Varker
· New EU Data Protection Regulations Could Mean Hefty Fines for U.S. Companies: How You Should Prepare
Privacy Law Alert, February 2012
Mary Hildebrand, Katherine Varker
· Year-End Sarbanes-Oxley Score Card: The Effective Dates Keep Rolling In
The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, January 2004
Peter Ehrenberg, Katherine Varker