Elena Vassileva

As a member of RDJ’s Research, Innovation and Technology team, Elena advises in the area of technology transfer and collaborative research arrangements between higher education institutions and the private sector as well as in relation to clinical trial agreements, material transfer agreements, research and licensing agreements, SaaS, end-user and open-source licences.

As a senior member of RDJ’s Cyber and Data Protection Team, Elena has extensive experience in advising companies, not-for-profit organisations and state bodies on a broad range of data protection issues, particularly international data transfers, data protection-related agreements, policies and procedures and GDPR compliance.

As a member of the firm’s Startup Team, Elena regularly presents to emerging and scaling companies on intellectual property protection (including copyright, trademark, trade secret and licensing) and data protection issues.

Prior to joining the firm, Elena worked as an associate at a top-tier Bulgarian law firm and has been involved in numerous intellectual property and data protection due diligence exercises as part of multi-jurisdictional transactions.