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Twenty-Fifth Annual Institute on Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

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MoFo is participating in Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) Twenty-Fifth Annual Institute on Privacy and Cybersecurity Law, a program designed for attorneys and professionals who provide advice on information data privacy and cybersecurity strategy, compliance, and risk management issues looking to hone their skills. 

MoFo is participating in Practising Law Institute’s (PLI) Twenty-Fifth Annual Institute on Privacy and Cybersecurity Law, a program designed for attorneys and professionals who provide advice on information data privacy and cybersecurity strategy, compliance, and risk management issues looking to hone their skills. MoFo partner Alfredo Silva will speak as a panelist to highlight the importance of implementing a meaningful data privacy and security governance structure, led by senior executives, and identify regulatory trends in cyber risk, disclosures, and board oversight. His panel will take place at the following time:<ul><li>Privacy and Cybersecurity: Governance, Oversight, and Risk Management (May 7, 2024, 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. PT)</li></ul>To view the full agenda and list of speakers, visit PLI’s <a href="https://www.pli.edu/programs/institute-on-privacy-and-data-security-law?t=live&p=385402" target="_blank">website</a>.<hr>

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Alfredo Silva is a partner in the Transactions Department, co-chair of the firm's Social Enterprise and Impact Investing Group, and a member of the ESG Strategy Committee. Alfredo represents companies and investors in a broad range of corporate and securities law matters, with a focus on businesses in the life sciences, agtech and fintech sectors. Alfredo’s practice includes capital markets transactions, venture capital, growth equity and corporate venture financings, tender offers and other secondary offerings, digital token matters, and mergers and acquisitions. Alfredo also helps clients leverage environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors to evaluate risk and opportunities and to invest responsibly in businesses seeking sustainable growth and impact.In his private company practice, Alfredo has served as company or investor counsel in early- and late-stage financings, minority strategic investments and impact investments in dozens of private companies, including representation of SoftBank and SoftBank Vision Fund in financings with a combined value of over $2 billion, Temasek in its $800 million minority investment in Verily Life Sciences, an Alphabet company, and Visa Ventures in strategic fintech investments around the world.In his public company practice, Alfredo counsels issuers on strategic transactions, such as the stock-for-stock merger of Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. with Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp, as well as corporate governance and compliance with the U.S. federal securities laws and stock exchange listing standards, including advising on cutting-edge issues with respect to ESG disclosures and materiality assessments.In addition, Alfredo works extensively with nonprofit organizations, providing advice on fiduciary issues, entity formation, structuring and other corporate matters, and assists small businesses pro bono. He incorporated and continues to advise Illuminate, the nonprofit producer of The Bay Lights, a 25,000 LED sculpture on the western span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, in structuring, corporate governance, and project management matters. Alfredo currently chairs the audit committees of the boards of directors of Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, a charity founded by four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry and The New York Times bestselling author Ayesha Curry to unleash the potential of every child, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, an international leader in innovative theater whose shows have won eight Tony Awards, nine Obie Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, among many other honors.Alfredo is recognized by The Recorder as a 2013 Lawyer on the Fast Track, in 2014 was the inaugural recipient of the firm’s Kathi Pugh Award for Pro Bono Service, is a 2017 Lawyers Committee for Legal Diversity Fellow, and was the recipient of the American Bar Association’s 2023 National Public Service Award. Alfredo received his B.S. degree, cum laude with distinction, in Engineering Sciences (Chemical) from Yale College in 2004 and received his J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 2008. Alfredo speaks conversational Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, and spent a year at China’s Tsinghua University researching issues in intellectual property protection on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Twenty-Fifth Annual Institute on Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

06 May 2024 - 07 May 2024