Olivia J. Greer

Olivia is a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US), partnering with global businesses in establishing, developing and managing the day-to-day needs of a global privacy and cybersecurity program, including with respect to the interplay between U.S. and ex-U.S. privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU and UK. She advises clients at all stages of the business life cycle, from emerging companies to global market leaders, on privacy and data security matters in corporate transactions, and in connection with government investigations and data breaches. She regularly advises clients regarding compliance with data privacy laws and regulations affecting various industries and jurisdictions, including the California Consumer Privacy Act and emerging U.S. state privacy laws, laws concerning biometric data, privacy and security requirements under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and other regulatory rules, including under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

Representative matters:

• Advise leading global asset manager on all aspects of privacy compliance and risk management, including with respect to overall strategy, the implementation and maintenance of public and internal privacy and data protection policies and procedures, data management and hygiene, and incident prevention and response.
• Assist numerous clients in establishing strategy and policy around risk mitigation in connection with the use of tools leveraging generative AI and the development, use and acquisition of AI-related products and services.
• Lead a multi-jurisdictional team assisting a global payment processor and information management service provider in establishing a global privacy compliance approach and implementing supporting policies and other documentation.
• Advise on privacy and cybersecurity aspects of numerous corporate transactions, including:
• Adair Winery, Inc. in its $85 million acquisition of Swanson Vineyards, Sonoma Coast Vineyards, Cosentino, Cherry Pie and Bar Dog brands;
• Advent International Corporation in numerous acquisitions and investments, including in Conservice, LLC, Thras.io, Inc. (n/k/a Thrasio, Inc.) and Maxar Technologies Inc.; and its sale of Certinia Inc. (f/k/a FinancialForce.com, Inc.) and Cobham Group Limited’s approximately $1.9 billion sale of CAES Systems Holdings, LLC;
• Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Agiliti, Inc. in its merger with affiliates of Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P in a transaction that implies an enterprise value of approximately $2.5 billion;
• Allego N.V. in an exchange offer and consent solicitation including the exchange of 13,029,838 of the Company’s warrants for 2,996,918 ordinary shares;
• Aman Group S.a.r.l. in its sale of a $900 million minority stake to Cain International and The Public Investment Fund, in a transaction that valued Aman at $3 billion;
• American Securities in the $1.85 billion sale of its portfolio company ASP Acuren Holdings Inc. to Admiral Acquisition Limited and its acquisition of The Fulham Group LLC;
• The Apax Digital Fund, as a lead investor, in a $170 million investment in Guesty, Inc.;
• Astorg Partners in its approximately $282 million take-private acquisition of Hamilton Thorne and simultaneous acquisition of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) product portfolio of Cook Medical;
• Aterian Investment Partners in its sale of Stewart Tubular Products to Pelican Energy Partners;
• Avenir Growth in connection with various matters, including its investments in Klaviyo, Inc. and Power Beauty Co. (d/b/a MERIT Beauty);
• Bell Canada in its C$5.0 billion acquisition of Ziply Fiber;
• Black Knight, Inc. in its acquisition of Optimal Blue LLC, in a transaction that implied an enterprise value of $1.8 billion;
• Blackstone in its $300 million acquisition of a minority stake in Recurrent Ventures Inc.; its $130 million acquisition of a minority stake in PayCargo, LLC (a portfolio company of Insight Partners); its acquisitions of Aqua Finance, Inc., Certified Collectibles Group LLC and a majority stake in New Tradition Media; its investments in Allied Benefit Systems, LLC and Vectra AI, Inc.; Certified Collectibles Group, LLC’s acquisition of James Spence Authentication, LLC; and together with Greater Sum Ventures, in its preferred equity investment in Inhabit;
• Blue Star Innovation Partners, along with institutional co-investors, in its acquisition of eMinor Inc.;
• Brookfield Asset Management Inc. in its approximately $4.8 billion acquisition of a 61.2% stake in Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.;
• Brookfield Business Partners in its $8 billion sale of Westinghouse Electric Company;
• Cedar Fair in its $8 billion merger of equals with Six Flags;
• Centerbridge Partners, L.P. and its portfolio company KIK Consumer Products Inc. in its sale of its automotive chemicals manufacturing business to an affiliate of Recochem Inc.;
• ChampionX Corporation in its pending sale to SLB;
• Churchill Capital Corp IV, a SPAC sponsored by Churchill Capital Group, in its $11.75 billion merger with Lucid Motors;
• Citation Capital in its acquisition of a majority stake in Aptive Environmental;
• Clayton Dubilier & Rice in the merger of its portfolio company Cynosure with Lutronic Corporation;
• Core-Mark Holding Company, Inc. in its $2.5 billion sale to Performance Food Group;
• CoStar Group in its $450 million acquisition of STR, Inc. and its acquisitions of Cozy Services, Ltd. and Ten-X, LLC;
• CPP Investments, together with Glencore and BCI, as shareholders, in Viterra Ltd.’s approximately $18 billion business combination with Bunge Ltd.; and together with Blackstone, in the acquisition of Advarra, Inc., in a deal that implies an Advarra enterprise value of $5 billion;
• Digital Realty Trust, Inc. in definitive agreements with Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. and its institutional partners, Cyxtera Technologies and Digital Core REIT, that successfully resolve the relationships with Cyxtera, including its (i) $459 million sale of four data centers located in California and New Jersey, (ii) $44 million purchase and termination of three of Cyxtera’s leases in Germany and Singapore, (iii) assignment to Brookfield of three leases in Los Angeles and New Jersey and (iv) purchase option to acquire from Brookfield one colocation center outside of London;
• DirecTV, LLC in its acquisition of certain assets and liabilities related to the advertising sales business segment of DirecTV;
• Elysium Management LLC in its acquisition of a majority stake in BMH Holdings, Inc., and in a secondary transaction from affiliates of Capital Alignment Partners;
• Ember SPV I Purchaser Inc. (an entity controlled by funds managed by Ember Infrastructure Management, LP) in its acquisition, alongside IQ and CDPQ, of H2O Innovation Inc.;
• Everstream Solutions LLC (a portfolio company of Infrabridge) in sale of its all-fiber network in the St. Louis metropolitan area;
• First Watch Restaurants Group, Inc. (a publicly traded company majority owned by Advent International) in a $158 million block trade of 8,000,000 shares of common stock;
• Genstar Capital in its acquisition of The SEER Group LLC;
• Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and a leading financial institution, as the lead underwriters, in a $1.1 billion initial public offering of UL Solutions Inc.;
• Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Mizuho Securities USA, RBC Capital Markets and two major financial institutions, as initial purchasers, in a $500 million offering of senior unsecured notes by Sensata Technologies, Inc.;
• Goldman Sachs in its acquisitions of NextCapital Group, Inc. and Restaurant Technologies, Inc.; its $440 million strategic investment in BrightNight; its $325 million investment in iSpot.tv; its sale of Marcus Invest’s digital investing account business to Betterment LLC; and in the sale of its Personal Financial Management unit to wealth management firm Creative Planning;
• Greater Sum Ventures in its acquisition of Strax Technologies, LLC;
• Growthcurve Capital in its majority investment in PureFacts Financial Solutions Inc;
• Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc in its $960 million acquisition of Antares Pharma, Inc.;
• HKA Global Inc. in its acquisition of ASQ Consulting Group LLC;
• Hologic Capital Holdings, Inc in its $350 million acquisition of Gynesonics, Inc.;
• The Home Depot, Inc. in its $18.25 billion acquisition of SRS Distribution Inc.;
• ICG Strategic Equity in its acquisition of an indirect interest in Datavant Group;
• ILEGAL Mezcal in its sale to Bacardi Limited;
• IMTT Holdings LLC (a portfolio company of Riverstone Holdings LLC) in its sale of five bulk liquids storage terminals located in Alamogordo, NM, Bremen, GA, Macon, GA, Montgomery, AL and Moundville, AL to JET Infrastructure Holding IA LLC (a portfolio company of Instar Asset Management);
• John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in its approximately $200 million sale of Wiley University Services to Academic Partnerships (a portfolio company of Vistria Group); and its sale of Wiley Edge to Inspirit Capital;
• Kainos Capital LP and Evriholder Products, LLC in its acquisitions of Axe Holdings, LLC and Home Sweet Home Holdings, Inc.
• Kantar Group Holdings Ltd. (a portfolio company of Bain Capital) in its sale of Competitive Media Reporting, LLC and Competitive Media Reporting Canada Inc. (d/b/a Vivvix to MediaRadar);
• Kologik Software, Inc. (a platform company of GSV Management, LLC) in its acquisition of Kologik, LLC;
• The Kroger Company in its proposed $24.6 billion merger with Albertsons Companies, Inc. and its pending sale of Kroger Specialty Pharmacy to CarelonRx Inc.;
• The Kroger Company, along with The Albertsons Companies, Inc., in the approximately $1.9 billion sale of 413 stores, as well as select banners, distribution centers, offices and private label brands, to C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC in connection with Kroger’s proposed merger with Albertsons Companies Inc.;
• Lee Equity Partners in its sale of Cadent Technology, Inc.;
• Lone Star Funds and XSYS Germany Holding Gmbh in its $325 million acquisition of the MacDermid graphics business from Element Solutions Incorporated;
• L’Oréal USA in its acquisition of Thayers Natural Remedies and its acquisition of Skinbetter Science;
• Luxor Capital Group in its investment in Montage Hotels & Resorts (d/b/a Montage International);
• MarketAxess Holdings Inc. in its acquisition of Pragma LLC;
• MGM Resorts International in its $450 million sale of the operations of Gold Strike Casino Resort to CNE (a subsidiary of Cherokee Nation Businesses); its $1.625 billion acquisition of the operations of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas; and its pending $1.075 billion sale of the operations of The Mirage Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip to Hard Rock International;
• Montagu Private Equity in RTI Surgical, Inc.’s acquisition of Cook Biotech Incorporated and Cook Biotech Europe ApS;
• Nexa Equity LLC in its acquisition of Easy Metrics Inc. and Autura in its merger with Traxero (a portfolio company of Radian Capital);
• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (OTPP) in its participation in an investment in Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) and OTPP and TA Associates in the sale of a majority stake in Flexera Software LLC to Thoma Bravo, with OTPP and TA retaining minority stakes;
• Pacific Avenue Capital Partners in its transaction to acquire the filtration business of Sogefi S.p.A.;
• Peak Rock Capital and its portfolio company The Tranzonic Companies in its acquisition of Supply Source Enterprises, Inc. (a portfolio company of H.I.G Capital);
• Providence Equity Partners in the sale of Tait LLC to Goldman Sachs Alternatives;
• PSG in numerous acquisitions and investments, including of Benchmark Solutions, LLC, ClassTag Inc., Next Glass, Inc. and in DigitalEd, Kantola Training Solutions, LLC, Kenect, LLC, Loopback, LLC, NoFraud, LLC, Packback Inc., Propertybase, Searchspring, Semarchy SAS and Stylitics Inc.; in its sale of Sovereign Sportsman Holdings, LLC to PayIt, LLC; Formstack Holdings, LP in its acquisition of Open Raven, Inc.; ThreatConnect, Inc. in its acquisition of Polarity.io, Inc.; Trade School Software in its acquisitions of Campus Ivy LLC, Verity IQ, LLC and 777ABC; LLC Vertical Knowledge L.L.C. in its sale to Babel Street, Inc.; and Netsurion LLC in the sale of substantially all of the remaining assets to Lumifi Cyber, Inc.;
• Rakuten USA, Inc. in its acquisition of Curbside, Inc.;
• Redbox Entertainment Inc. in its sale to Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc.;
• Reservoir Capital Group, LLC in sale of its majority stake in ClearCaptions LLC to CC Opportunities, LLC;
• Sanofi in its up to $470 million acquisition of Tidal Therapeutics, Inc.; its approximately $2.2 billion acquisition of Inhibrx, Inc.; and its sale of Enjaymo® to a subsidiary of Recordati Industrai Chimica E Farmacuetica S.p.A.;
• Searchlight Capital Partners and its portfolio company Integrated Power Services LLC in IPS’s acquisition of Evans Enterprises, Inc.;
• Seven2 and its portfolio company Vitaprotech Group SAS in its pending acquisition of the physical security, access card, and identity reader operations and assets of Identiv, Inc.;
• Siete Foods in its $1.2 billion sale to PepsiCo.;
• SiriusXM in its acquisition of Team Coco;
• Sunoco LP in its approximately $7.3 billion acquisition of NuStar Energy L.P.;
• TCV in its acquisition, via tender offer and recapitalization, of a minority stake in Sojern Inc. and, as lead investor, in a $110 million investment in Strava, Inc.;
• Topgolf International, Inc. (a portfolio company of Providence Equity Partners, Dundon Capital Partners and WestRiver Group) in its $2.5 billion merger of equals with Callaway Golf Company;
• Trive Capital and its portfolio company Earthlink in its acquisition of One Ring Networks, Inc.;
• TruArc Partners in its acquisition of Watchtower Security, LLC;
• TurnKey Vacation Rentals, Inc. in its merger with Vacasa LLC; 
• WellSpring Consumer Healthcare (a portfolio company of Avista Capital Partners) in its acquisition of a portfolio of over-the-counter skin care brands including A+D, Solarcaine, Cortate and Complex 15 from Bayer AG and acquisition of vH essentials from Wisconsin Pharmacal Company;
• Wex Health (a subsidiary of Wex Inc.) in its $180 million acquisition of an Ascensus Health & Benefits line of business from Ascensus, LLC; and
• Willis Towers Watson PLC in its proposed $80 billion combination with Aon PLC and in its $632 million sale of TRANZACT to GTCR and Recognize.

Olivia has also advised clients on a variety of intellectual property matters (as well as related areas such as publicity rights and defamation), including with respect to online platforms’ rights and obligations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Communications Decency Act (CDA) and related laws. In the litigation context, Olivia has served on Weil teams representing a variety of companies in matters and disputes arising in connection with the development and evolution of new technology and media, including in the e‑commerce, digital music and social media sectors. She has worked on matters for AIG, eBay, HarperCollins, Hilton, Meta (f/k/a Facebook), Samsung and Sirius XM Satellite Radio, among others.

Olivia has represented pro bono clients in asylum and other legal status proceedings, including under the Violence Against Women Act, and regularly counsels pro bono clients on privacy-related matters.

Olivia was recognized as a “Next Generation Partner” for Media, Technology and Telecoms: Technology Transactions by Legal 500 US and shortlisted as “Privacy & Data Protection Lawyer of the Year” for Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards for 2024. In 2024, Olivia was named among the winners of Corporate Counsel’s Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards’ “Mentor & Mentee Collaboration” category, which commends “in-house and law firm women leaders and allies who have demonstrated a commitment to advancing the empowerment of women in law.” She was also recognized as a “Rising Star” for Legal Media Group’s 2023 LMG Life Sciences guide and as a “Best Lawyer” for Intellectual Property Law by Best Lawyers in America* 2023.

Olivia graduated cum laude from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she received the Charles Ballon Writing Award, was a Public Service and Dean’s Merit Scholar, and served as Acquisitions Editor of the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal.

* Best Lawyers (in America) is by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners