Chicago's Boutique Firm
DELIVERS EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE
As a boutique firm, we work closely with select private clients. As our client, we invest time to understand your unique business in order to identify opportunities, and render advisory and legal services to help achieve your goals, capitalize on opportunities, or reduce risk.
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As a boutique firm, we are able to partner more closely with clients to anticipate their needs, and to render exceptional service. See the practice areas.
PRACTICE AREAS
Advisory & Legal Services
Technology Transactions including SaaS agreements.
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Data Privacy & Cyber Security including the development of data privacy terms for apps, websites, and platforms, internal data privacy and data security operating policies, and privacy by design.
Intellectual Property & Licensing including intellectual property proseution or registration, license-in, license-out, strategy, and advising.
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Incident Response including ransomware events, business email compromise ("BEC") events, data theft, data leaks, data loss, and third party data incidents.
Compliance including CMMC, and NIST 800-171.
Mat Kresz
Attorney
PRACTICE AREAS
Technology Transactions
Intellectual Property & Licensing
Data Privacy & Cyber Security
Incident Response
Compliance
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EDUCATION
DePaul College of Law, Chicago
Juris Doctor, Certificate in Intellectual Property
Attorney Profile
Honors
Magna Cum Laude
Order of the Coif
Law Review
Dean's List
CALI Awards
Legal Profession (Ethics)
Data Privacy Law
ESADE School of Business & Law, Buenos Aires Argentina
International Business Transactions
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Universidad de La Habana, Havana Cuba
Foreign Investments
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University of Illinois at Chicago
B.Sc. Industrial Engineering
Honors
NSCS Award for Outstanding Scholarship & Service
First Place Design Competition: Portable Desalination Device for Maritime Use
CERTIFICATES
Intellectual Property Law, DePaul College of Law
CIPP/US, IAPP
CSX Cybersecurity Fundamentals, ISACA
HIPAA, Privacy Security Academy
GDPR, Privacy Security Academy
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
DePaul Cyber Risk Conference: Cybersecurity in an Officeless World, Panelist (Dec. 02, 2020)
IP and Political Campaigns, Organizer (Nov. 17, 2020)
Virtual Client Cyber Roundtable, Panelist (Oct. 20, 2020)
Mediating Effectively in a Remote World, Panelist (Sept. 10, 2020)
PUBLICATIONS
Brian Neuffer, Mat Kresz, Don’t Give Away Your Intellectual Property, American Bar Association In-House Counsel’s Desk (Dec. 11, 2020).
Fairouz Benahmed-Miniuk, Mat Kresz, et al., Genome-editing technologies and patent landscape overview, 6 Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst 115–34, (2017).
“I have worked closely with Mat Kresz on many matters in recent years.His legal work has been excellent. I have repeatedly relied on his expertise in matters related to cybersecurity, technology, compliance and litigation. I will continue to rely on him. I know Mat to be honest, diligent, and more than fair with his billing rates.”
Brian E. Neuffer
Licensed attorney in Illinois and Idaho
former General Counsel of CTLGroup