Data as a Dealmaker or Dealbreaker: How Consumer Data and Privacy Compliance Drive Value and Exposure as a Seller or Buyer
A target company's data is simultaneously its most valuable asset and its most underexamined liability. Privacy debt, AI risk, and cross-border data restrictions are reshaping how deals get done and how they fall apart. The same data footprint that drives enterprise value can just as easily depress it – driving valuation discounts, triggering regulatory scrutiny, and exposing buyers to liabilities that no rep and warranty can fully contain. For in-house counsel, staying ahead of this shift isn't optional.
Join The L Suite for the 2026 Privacy Virtual Forum, taking place virtually in July 2026. This three-hour experience brings together leading practitioners for two mainstage conversations and a round of peer-led breakout sessions, designed to move fast, go deep, and leave you with frameworks you can actually use. Whether you're navigating a data-heavy acquisition or refining a privacy diligence playbook you've run a dozen times, this forum meets you where you are.
Mainstage 1: Privacy Diligence in M&A and IPO Transactions - Preparing for Scrutiny on Both Sides of the Table
Data is having its moment, and not always the kind that companies want. Acquirers and underwriters are now rigorously auditing for privacy debt — over-collected data, non-compliant vendor contracts, unfulfilled state mandates, and consent architecture that predates the laws now governing it. This session covers how deal counsel conducts privacy diligence, how legacy consent issues surface as post-close rep and warranty breaches, and what it means for valuation when the data underlying a business model was collected under questionable circumstances.
Mainstage 2: What Comes Next - Folding New Data and New Risk Into Your Privacy Program
You've just inherited a company's data, its consent records, its vendor contracts, its retention habits, and whatever consumer-facing promises it made along the way — and now all of it has to live inside your program, under your name, subject to your obligations. This session focuses on the operational reality of post-acquisition privacy integration: how you assess what you've actually acquired, reconcile conflicting practices, and build one defensible program out of two — without inheriting the target's exposure.
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