Anne Peterson > McGuireWoods LLP > Pittsburgh, United States > Lawyer Profile
McGuireWoods LLP Offices
TOWER TWO-SIXTY, 260 FORBES AVENUE
SUITE 1800
PITTSBURGH, PA 15222-3142
PENNSYLVANIA
United States
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Anne Peterson
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Anne focuses her practice on data privacy and security, incident response, information governance and e-discovery. She routinely advises clients on a broad array of issues related to federal, state and industry compliance, as well as defensible internal policies and procedures to protect and leverage sensitive information.
Anne has handled numerous data breach events from initial discovery to resolution including investigation, federal and state notification analysis, remediation and corrective action. Her experience spans diverse industry sectors, including energy, healthcare, manufacturing, banking, retail, travel, technology services, education, private equity, global food services and construction. Anne also routinely counsels international clients regarding global privacy and security, cross-border data transfers and defensible policy implementation.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
Data protection policies and governance programs for nationwide clients are frequent mandates for McGuireWoods LLP. Virginia-based Andrew Konia regularly assists clients on data breach remediation and security issues pertaining to vendor contracts and private equity transactions. Janet Peyton, also in Virginia, is the go-to for intersecting intellectual property and data matters as well as EU and US cross-border data transfers. Pittsburgh-stationed counsel Anne Peterson handles data breach responses across a plethora of industries. Alicia Baiardo in San Francisco routinely advises clients on compliance strategies in line with the CCPA and CPRA. Rodger Heaton has departed the practice.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Transport > Shipping: litigation and regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious