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Lisa Peets leads the Technology Regulatory and Policy practice in the London office and is a member of the firm's Management Committee. Ms. Peets divides her time between London and Brussels, and her practice embraces regulatory counsel and legislative advocacy. In this context, she has worked closely with leading multinationals in a number of sectors, including many of the world’s best-known technology companies.
Ms. Peets counsels clients on a range of EU law issues, including data protection and related regimes, copyright, e-commerce and consumer protection, and the rapidly expanding universe of EU rules applicable to existing and emerging technologies. Ms. Peets also routinely advises clients in and outside of the technology sector on trade related matters, including EU trade controls rules.
According to the latest edition of Chambers UK (2020), "'Trusted voice' Lisa Peets is lauded as a 'meticulous and thoughtful' practitioner.
- Represents the Business Software Alliance in both the "Schrems II" litigation and EU-U.S. Privacy Shield annulment action before the EU Court of Justice.
- On behalf of several leading multinational technology companies, provides a wide range of day-to-day compliance and strategic counsel in relation to EU laws applicable to software, hardware and online services, as well as handling complex regulatory investigations.
- Advises clients in a range of sectors on compliance with EU trade controls, including in relation to day-to-day compliance, internal investigations, and voluntary self-disclosures.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Digital Business Lawyer, Editorial Board Member
- The Intellectual Property Lawyers Organisation (TIPLO)
March 10, 2021, Covington Alert
Traditionally, the logic of trade policy within the EU was driven by economic efficiency considerations: lower tariff and non-tariff barriers to international trade would facilitate mutual gains through the theory of comparative advantage. The EU’s new trade policy approach—“open, sustainable, and assertive”—has shifted tack to incorporate non-economic concerns ...
Covington Elects Two New Members to Management Committee
February 17, 2021
WASHINGTON—Covington partners have elected Phyllis Jones and Lisa Peets to the firm’s eight-member Management Committee, which includes three women, two of whom are women of color. Ms. Jones and Ms. Peets will serve four-year terms and work with other members of the committee in setting the firm’s strategy, overseeing the firm’s operations, supporting the firm’s ...
More Women of Color Take On Big Law Leadership Roles
February 17, 2021, The American Lawyer
Phyllis Jones and Lisa Peets spoke with The American Lawyer about their recent election to Covington’s Management Committee. Ms. Peets discussed her supporters along the way, saying, “those clients who have been committed since the early days, before diversity was as much of a focus as it is today” have been “important to my longevity and success.” Ms. Jones ...
February 1, 2021, Covington Alert
Following the United Kingdom’s formal departure from the European Union regulatory regime on 31 December 2020, the UK now implements a unilateral export controls and economic sanctions framework. The post-Brexit UK trade controls regime is the product of a series of transitional statutory measures implemented by the UK Government, beginning in 2018 with the ...
January 20, 2021, Covington Alert
The Covington Technology Forum – Data in a Connected World, will be taking place on January 27th, 28th, and 29th. Intended for legal and business professionals who manage any aspect of the data economy for their organizations, the Forum will equip attendees with the information and insights they need in order to understand the evolving legal, regulatory and ...
January 14, 2021, Global Policy Watch
On 17 December 2020, the Council of Europe’s* Ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI) published a Feasibility Study (the “Study”) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) legal standards. The Study examines the feasibility and potential elements of a legal framework for the development and deployment of AI, based on the Council of Europe’s human rights ...
December 21, 2020, Covington Alert
On December 18, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released a Final Rule (“the Rule”), effective immediately, adding 77 entities to the BIS Entity List. The majority of these entities are in China, and include, among others, the Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (“SMIC”) and the drone company SZ DJI ...
December 17, 2020, Covington Alert
In April 2019, the UK Government published its Online Harms White Paper and launched a Consultation. In February 2020, the Government published its initial response to that Consultation. In its 15 December 2020 full response to the Online Harms White Paper Consultation, the Government outlined its vision for tackling harmful content online through a new ...
Global Data Review Names Covington to The GDR 100 Elite
December 10, 2020
WASHINGTON—Global Data Review has named Covington to The GDR 100 Elite. The ranking profiles the top 20 firms with a broad international presence and a consistent track record of delivering cutting-edge advice to household name clients around the world, who between them handle the lion’s share of cross-border work in data privacy. The firms featured in The GDR ...
December 3, 2020, Global Policy Watch
On 25 November 2020, the European Commission published a proposal for a Regulation on European Data Governance (“Data Governance Act”). The proposed Act aims to facilitate data sharing across the EU and between sectors, and is one of the deliverables included in the European Strategy for Data, adopted in February 2020. (See our previous blog...… Continue ...
September 2, 2020
BRUSSELS–Covington has named Dan Cooper to lead its European data protection practice as co-chair of the firm’s global Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice, and he has relocated to Brussels to be closer to the institutions and courts that govern the European data privacy landscape. The firm has more than 100 lawyers focused on data privacy and cybersecurity ...
August 20, 2020, Covington Alert
On August 17, 2020, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) released a Final Rule (the “August 17 Final Rule”) significantly expanding U.S. export controls restrictions on certain non-U.S. items reexported, exported from abroad, or transferred (in-country) in transactions involving Huawei or its affiliates designated on the BIS Entity ...
July 16, 2020
BRUSSELS-- Today, the European Court of Justice (“CJEU”) issued a landmark decision striking down the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield — an agreement between EU and U.S. authorities authorizing transfers of EU personal data to the United States — but upholding the validity of standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”), another mechanism that EU-based organizations use to ...
July 16, 2020, The Guardian
Lisa Peets spoke with The Guardian about the European Court of Justice’s decision to invalidate the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, in which social media companies could be prevented from sending data to the United States from Europe. Ms. Peets says the ruling is not a total halt on data transfers between the EU and U.S. The court upheld the use of “standard contractual ...
July 16, 2020, Law.com
Lisa Peets is quoted in Law.com regarding the European Court of Justice’s judgment in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. Ms. Peets says that the judgment means that the 5,000 or so U.S. companies signed up to the Privacy Shield will have to find an interim solution until EU and U.S. officials have worked out a new data protection deal. “The invalidation of the Privacy ...
Schrems II sparks data transfer chaos and confusion
July 16, 2020, Global Data Review
Lisa Peets is quoted in Global Data Review regarding the European Court of Justice’s decision to invalidate the EU-US Privacy Shield. Ms. Peets, who represented software trade body BSA as an intervening party, says companies are unlikely to immediately stop their SCCs – saying that “halting existing transfers would be all but impossible from a practical ...
Top EU Court Strikes Down Popular Data Transfer Tool
July 16, 2020, Law360
Lisa Peets spoke with Law360 about European Court of Justice’s invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. Ms. Peets, who represented the Software Alliance, says the decision to reject the Privacy Shield without holding arguments on the merits of the tool — an issue that wasn't directly before the high court in this dispute — was “disappointing to many.” She ...
July 10, 2020, Covington Alert
On 6 July 2020, the UK Government announced the creation of a new UK human rights sanctions regime, which is the first independent UK sanctions regime to be established under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (“SAMLA 2018”).
May 21, 2020, Covington Alert
In an effort to curtail access by China’s Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. to products made using U.S. semiconductor software and technology, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) on May 15, 2020, released an Interim Final Rule expanding and extending U.S. export controls jurisdiction to certain non-U.S. items when destined for Huawei or ...
April 29, 2020, Covington Alert
On April 28, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published two final rules and one proposed rule to modify certain license exceptions and definitions in the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) (15 CFR Parts 730 – 774), based on concern that sensitive products and technologies were being diverted to military uses ...
April 10, 2020, Covington Alert
On 18 February 2020, the UK Economic Secretary to the Treasury upheld a decision on the part of HM Treasury to impose monetary penalties against Standard Chartered Bank, for breaches of the EU-Russia sanctions and associated UK implementing legislation.
March 20, 2020, Covington Alert
In recent days, both the EU and certain EU Member States have imposed new export licensing requirements on the export of certain types of medical equipment and medicines, in light of the COVID-19 outbreak. We summarize those measures below. The new measures are relevant for any companies who may export medical equipment or medicines from the EU or the United ...
January 15, 2020, Covington Alert
On January 10, 2020, President Trump issued a new Executive Order (“January 10 Executive Order”) that provides authority for the imposition of sanctions with respect to certain additional sectors of Iran’s economy, including Iran’s construction, mining, manufacturing, and textiles sectors. The January 10 Executive Order introduces both property-blocking ...
December 20, 2019, Covington Alert
On December 19, 2019, Advocate General (“AG”) Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe handed down his Opinion in Case C-311/18, Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems (“Schrems II”). The AG’s Opinion provides non-binding guidance to the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) on how to decide the case.
October 17, 2019, Global Policy Watch
On October 3, 2019, the United States and United Kingdom signed an agreement on cross-border law enforcement demands for data from service providers (“Agreement”). The Agreement is the first bilateral agreement to be entered under the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act. It obligates each Party to remove barriers in their domestic laws...… ...
July 17, 2019, Covington Alert
On July 9, 2019, the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) heard oral argument in Case C-311/18, Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems (“Schrems II”). The primary question before the ECJ is whether the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) are valid for transfers of personal data to the United States.1 Given ...
Covington Represents BSA in Landmark Data Protection Case Before Europe's Highest Court
July 9, 2019
BRUSSELS—Today, a team of Covington lawyers argued before the European Court of Justice in a landmark data protection case, Case C-311/18, Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland and Maximillian Schrems (“Schrems II”). The case has significant ramifications for any organization that relies on the standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) to transfer personal ...
August 8, 2018, Covington Alert
On August 6, 2018, President Trump issued Executive Order 13846 (the “Executive Order”) that re-imposes -- and to a limited extent broadens the scope of -- certain U.S. secondary sanctions targeting Iran that had been suspended in January 2016 pursuant to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) with Iran.
June 15, 2018, Covington Alert
As described in our May 9, 2018, alert, the United States determined on May 8, 2018, to end its participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) and re-impose sanctions against Iran that had been suspended as part of this 2015 nuclear agreement between the United States, Iran, Germany, France, the UK, and China.
May 15, 2018, Covington Alert
On May 8, 2018, the United States announced the decision to end its participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) and re-impose sanctions against Iran that had been suspended as part of this 2015 nuclear agreement between the United States, Iran, Germany, France, the UK and China.
May 9, 2018, Covington Alert
On May 8, 2018, President Trump announced his decision to end U.S. participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) and re-impose sanctions against Iran that had been suspended as part of this 2015 nuclear agreement between the United States, Iran, and certain other governments. This action will have far-reaching effects for both U.S. and ...
May 9, 2018, Covington Alert
On May 8, 2018, President Trump announced his decision to end U.S. participation in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) and re-impose sanctions against Iran that had been suspended as part of this 2015 nuclear agreement between the United States, Iran, and certain other governments. This action will have far-reaching effects for both U.S. and ...
March 27, 2018, Covington Alert
On March 23, 2018, Congress passed, and President Trump signed into law, the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (“CLOUD”) Act, which creates a new framework for government access to data held by technology companies worldwide.
UK data laws enter Facebook era
August 8, 2017, Financial Times
Lisa Peets is quoted in a Financial Times article regarding the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation which will be introduced into UK law later this year. "Under the regulations, the definition of 'personal data' will be extraordinarily broad—any information that is related to a person," says Peets. "Companies are finding out that they are processing a ...
UK Imposes New Sanctions Disclosure Obligation on Legal Professionals, Certain Other Businesses
August 7, 2017, Covington Alert
On July 18, 2017, the UK published a new statutory instrument, The European Union Financial Sanctions (Amendment of Information Provisions) Regulation 2017 (S.I. 2017/754) (hereinafter, the “AIP Regulation”). The Regulation comes into force on August 8, 2017.
June 16, 2017
LONDON—Euromoney Legal Media Group has selected three Covington lawyers for its annual “Europe Women in Business Law Awards.” The awards honor women in the legal sector across Europe. The Covington lawyers recognized are: Louise Nash, Best in Mergers & Acquisitions. Ms. Nash focuses on M&A and other transactional matters for clients in the consumer brands, ...
May 15, 2017, Covington Alert
On May 2, 2017, the European Commission published a legislative proposal for a Regulation on a Single Market Information Tool. If adopted, the proposed Regulation would empower the Commission to request information from companies and trade associations, from a wide variety of industrial, technological and services sectors, if the Commission finds that serious ...
April 18, 2017, LexisPSL
Lisa Peets is quoted in a LexisPSL article regarding the Conservative Party's mandate for a hard Brexit. According to Peets, "An increased majority gives the Prime Minister greater flexibility to push for a harder or a softer Brexit, depending on what she actually wants." She adds, "A healthy majority helps May show the EU that she can deliver on her ...
June 17, 2016
LONDON—Euromoney Legal Media Group has selected four Covington lawyers for its annual “Europe Women in Business Law Awards.” The awards honor women in the legal sector across Europe. The Covington lawyers recognized are: Louise Nash, Best in Mergers & Acquisitions. Ms. Nash focuses on M&A and other transactional matters for clients in the consumer brands, ...
Change Partners: How Can Law Firms and In-House Departments Promote Race and Ethnic Diversity?
Spring 2016, GC Magazine
Lisa Peets spoke with GC Magazine regarding Covington’s approach to diversity. Peets says, “We approach diversity from two perspectives. First, how do we build the pipeline, and second, how do we recruit and retain internally?”
October 1, 2015, Covington Alert
September 24, 2015, Covington Alert
August 2015, Privacy Laws & Business International Report
July 6, 2015
LONDON, July 6, 2015 — Euromoney Legal Media Group selected four Covington partners Louise Nash, Lucinda Osborne, Lisa Peets and Hilary Prescott for its annual European Women in Business Law Awards. The awards honor women who are leading the field in the legal sector across Europe. Louise Nash won the award for Mergers & Acquisitions. Ms. Nash is a member of ...
June 11, 2015
BRUSSELS, June 11, 2015 — Covington has received 20 leading practice group rankings in the 2015 editions of Chambers Europe and Legal 500 EMEA. The legal guides have recognised the firm’s expertise in the following areas: CHAMBERS EUROPE Europe-wide - Regulatory - Agro/Food Europe-wide - Regulatory - Environment Europe-wide - Regulatory - ...
December 17, 2014, Covington E-Alert
September 30, 2014, Global Policy Watch
On 18 September, Scotland voted “no” in a referendum on whether it should be an independent country. The UK remains intact, the financial markets responded positively, and, according to David Cameron, the Queen “purred”. Had the Scots chosen independence, difficult issues would require addressing. Among these are what currency would an independent Scotland ...
September 13, 2014, Covington E-Alert
August 12, 2014, Covington E-Alert
July 23, 2014, Covington E-Alert
July 7, 2014
LONDON, 7 July, 2014 — Euromoney Legal Media Group awarded Covington partners Lisa Peets and Carmen Martinez Lopez the ‘Best in Copyright’ and ‘Rising Star - Litigation’ awards at the annual European Women in Business Law Awards ceremony in London. The awards honour firms that set “the standard in terms of female-friendly work practices, and women leading the ...
May 2, 2014
LONDON, 1 May, 2014 — Euromoney Legal Media Group have shortlisted nine Covington lawyers for the annual ‘Europe Women in Business Law Awards’ 2014. Those shortlisted for “Best in” their respective practice areas are: Competition and Antitrust - Miranda Cole Copyright - Lisa Peets Financial Regulation - Charlotte Hill Life ...
April 15, 2014, Covington E-Alert
March 21, 2014, Covington E-Alert
United States and European Union Impose Additional Sanctions in Response to the Crisis in Ukraine
March 18, 2014, Covington E-Alert
March 6, 2014, Covington E-Alert
September 6, 2013, Inside Political Law
On 17 July 2013, the UK Government introduced draft legislation, the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill, that would, if enacted, create a mandatory and publicly-accessible register for “consultant lobbyists.” Any person or organization that falls within the statutory definition would be required to register with ...
September 3, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO, September 3, 2013 — Covington & Burling is advising Microsoft Corp. in its purchase of substantially all of Nokia’s devices & services business. Under the transaction, Microsoft will also license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s mapping services. The total transaction price is EUR 5.44 billion in cash — or more than $7 billion. The ...
Covington’s Peets and Prescott, Named “Best in Copyright” and “Best in Investment Funds”
June 21, 2013
LONDON, 21 June, 2013 — Euromoney LMG awarded Covington partners Lisa Peets and Hilary Prescott the "Best in Copyright" and "Best in Investment Funds" awards at its Europe Women in Business Law Awards 2013 ceremony in London. The awards honour firms that set “the standard in terms of female-friendly work practices, and women leading the field in the legal sector ...
October 19, 2012, Covington E-Alert
October 19, 2012, Covington E-Alert
July 26, 2012, Covington E-Alert
Covington’s Peets Named ‘Best in Copyright’
June 27, 2012
LONDON, 27 June, 2012 — For the second straight year, Euromoney Legal Media Group named Covington & Burling partner Lisa Peets “Best in Copyright” during its Europe Women in Business Law Awards. Ms. Peets, whose practice encompasses legislative advocacy, trade and intellectual property enforcement, heads Covington’s European intellectual property group, and ...
May 17, 2012
LONDON, 17 May, 2012 — Euromoney Legal Media Group has named Covington & Burling partners Natalie Diep, Lisa Peets and Hilary Prescott as finalists for its second annual Europe Women in Business Law Awards. Ms. Diep, who advises clients on a wide range of corporate finance issues including mergers and acquisitions, equity offerings, private placements and ...
March 27, 2012, Covington E-Alert
October 15, 2011, EuroWatch
October 4, 2011, Covington E-Alert
September 29, 2011, Covington E-Alert
September 7, 2011, Covington E-Alert
Covington’s Lisa Peets Named as “Best in Copyright” at Women in Business Law Awards 2011
7/5/2011
LONDON, 5 July 2011 — Covington & Burling is pleased to announce that Lisa Peets was named as “Best in Copyright” at Euromoney Legal Media Group’s inaugural Women in Business Law Awards 2011. Natalie Diep was also shortlisted in the “Best in M&A” category. Covering 21 jurisdictions and 26 business areas, the Awards look to celebrate those firms setting the ...
May 25, 2011, Covington E-Alert
March 15, 2011, EuroWatch
February 28, 2011, Covington E-Alert
12/16/2010
LONDON, December 16, 2010 — Covington & Burling LLP has been named the "Sports, Media & Entertainment Team of the Year 2010" by Intellectual Property Magazine in recognition of the firm’s contribution to promoting and protecting the sports and entertainment-related IP rights of its clients. The award recognises Covington’s work over the past year, which has ...
December 2, 2010, Covington E-Alert
January 16, 2010, Inside EU Life Sciences
Article originally published in PLC Life Sciences Handbook 2009/2010 With sales of counterfeit pharmaceuticals predicted to increase at nearly twice the rate of sales of legitimate products, it is not surprising that tackling pharmaceutical crime is high on the agendas of both global policymakers and pharmaceutical manufacturers. The US-based Center for Medicine ...
2009/10, PLC Life Sciences Handbook 2009/10
USTR Requests Public Comments on SPS and Standards Related Measures That Create Barriers to Trade
September 29, 2009, Covington E-Alert
Proposed European Regulation of Alternative Investment Fund Managers: Impact on US Fund Managers
September 2, 2009, Covington Advisory
September 1, 2009, Covington E-Alert
2/23/2009
LONDON, February 23, 2009 — Covington & Burling LLP is pleased to announce the arrival of Morag Peberdy, who joins the London office as of counsel in the IP Group. Ms. Peberdy’s practice covers all aspects of contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters, including licensing, M&A, and litigation. Her broad experience extends to all forms of ...
July/August 2007, Trademark World
April 2007, Intellectual Property Newsletter
November-December 2019, Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law
- Chambers UK, Parliamentary and Public Affairs (2011-2020)
- Chambers Global, International Trade/WTO (2014)
- Chambers Europe, TMT (2015)
- Legal 500 EMEA
- IT and Telecoms (2016)
- Customs, Trade, WTO and Anti-dumping (2015)
- Intellectual Property (2015)
- EU Regulatory, Information Technology (2014)
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Legal 500 UK
- IT and Telecoms (2011-2016)
- EU and Competition EU and Competition: Trade, WTO, Anti-dumping, Customs (2016)
- Public Affairs (2008-2015)
- Media and Entertainment (2011-2015)
- IP (2011-2014)
- World ECR - ‘Highly Commended’ for Export Controls Law Firm of the Year (Europe) (2015)
- IFLR European Awards 2015 - shortlisted in Deals of the Year: M&A
- Euromoney Legal Media Group, Europe Women in Business Law Awards - Winner for Copyright (2011-2018); shortlisted (2019)
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Covington Represents BSA in Landmark Data Protection Case Before Europe's Highest Court
The case has significant ramifications for any organization that relies on the standard contractual clauses (“SCCs”) to transfer personal data from the EU to countries around the world.
Practices
Education
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1994
- cum laude
- Harvard Law Review, Editor
Harvard University, A.B., 1988
- with honours