Elena Vassileva
Senior Associate, Cork Office
Elena is a Senior Associate, practising as part of the firm’s Corporate and Commercial, Research, Innovation and Technology and Cyber and Data Protection teams. She advises a broad spectrum of domestic and international clients across a number of industry sectors on a variety of commercial law matters. Elena’s practice has a particular focus on technology contracts, clinical trials, intellectual property, commerce data protection and clinical trials.
Experience
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- assisted an Irish cloud-based workflow products and software solutions company with a suite of services agreements.
- advised a professional sports club in the context of the development and implementation of its fan experience platform.
- advised an indigenous fast-food chain in relation to updating its template franchise agreement.
- provided commercial contract advises to a leading Irish bovine artificial insemination provider.
- drafted framework products and services agreement for a large Irish ICT and managed services provider.
- prepared standard form master services agreement for a next generation data science and AI workbench.
- drafted standard terms and conditions of business and advised on data protection regulatory matters for subscription analytics platform and CRM service provider.
- advises businesses on evaluating and mitigating the risk of open-source contamination, the implementation of practical steps for compliance with open source and some rights reserved licences and the drafting and implementation of
anorganisational open source software policies applicable to in-bound and out-bound transactions and in-house development - advises businesses on identifying and addressing the risks associated with use of open-source software and source code licenced under some rights reserved licences and interpretation of the attribution of credit requirements of such licences.
- regularly assists in the development of software as a service subscription agreements.
- advises higher education institutions on a variety of intellectual property related matters to include licence arrangements, collaborative research agreements involving both industry parties and other research performing organisations, spin out companies and other related matters.
- advises on a variety of clinical trial agreements and associated clinical trial services agreements for a number of higher education institutions and private and voluntary hospitals.
Education
Sofia University Saint Kliment Ohridski (LLM)
University College Cork (LLM in Intellectual Property and eLaw)
Professional
Admitted as a solicitor in Ireland
European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Practice Areas