Edward Zacharias > McDermott Will & Emery LLP > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Edward Zacharias
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Healthcare
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Edward G. Zacharias is the managing partner of McDermott’s Boston office. Clients across the healthcare industry and beyond turn to him for practical, business-oriented counsel on their most significant privacy and cybersecurity compliance, healthcare regulatory and transactional matters. Ed’s clients include “Big Tech” companies, health information technology and digital health companies, healthcare providers, insurers, electronic health record platforms, pharmacies, drug and device manufacturers, life sciences companies and health services vendors.
Ed helps clients assess and develop innovative technologies (including AI/ML-enabled products) to comply with applicable laws while achieving their business objectives. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and advises clients on a broad range of information privacy and cybersecurity laws, including HIPAA, HITECH Act, 42 CFR Part 2, CCPA/CPRA and other state consumer privacy laws, GDPR, NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation, and other privacy and cybersecurity regimes.
Ed manages complex, high-profile ransomware attacks and other data breaches, guiding clients through all aspects of incident response and remediation. He is one of the nation’s leading lawyers in responding to HIPAA compliance investigations by the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights and state attorneys general. Ed has extensive experience negotiating favorable settlements on behalf of clients when these investigations result in allegations of noncompliance.
Ed has partnered with clients from across the technology and healthcare spectrum in their response efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including advising on the use of technologies to facilitate communications among providers and patients, and helping organizations address the related privacy, cybersecurity, telehealth, medical device and other legal considerations.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
(Leading lawyers)Combining a ‘collaborative spirit’, a ‘deep understanding of people‘, and ‘significant knowledge and experience in the healthcare data privacy area’, the global privacy and cybersecurity group at McDermott Will & Emery LLP acts in transactional, compliance-based and risk management matters for a range of global clients. Practice head Michael Morgan works out of California, and is noted for his experience advising on the legal issues arising out of advanced technologies. Washington DC-based Elliot Golding, ‘a brilliant attorney that always comes up with practical, actionable solutions’, also stands out for his work with emerging technologies, while DC colleague Jiayan Chen is praised for the ‘practical and commercial approach‘ she takes to healthcare technology matters. In Boston, Edward Zacharias is a go-to for healthcare industry clients.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection) United States > Media, technology and telecoms
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Tax > Financial products
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Government > Government contracts
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Fintech