Haley Bavasi is a partner in the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she focuses primarily on advising digital health companies across a range of privacy, transactional, research, and healthcare regulatory issues.  In particular, Haley leverages her expertise in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the U.S. federal health-privacy law, to provide early-stage companies with practical day-to-day counseling, as well advise as in the context of complex commercial transactions, M&A, and go-to-market strategy.  Haley’s extensive experience with a wide range of cutting-edge digital health companies provides her with valuable market insights she leverages for her clients.

At Wilson Sonsini, Haley has been a member of the technology transactions practice, where she represented clients in a variety of domestic and international engagements, including collaboration agreements, research and development agreements, clinical trial management, university licenses, and intellectual property licenses.  She is currently a member of the privacy and cybersecurity practice and plays a central role in the firm’s digital health initiative.

Prior to joining the firm, Haley was an associate in the San Francisco office of Ropes & Gray LLP, where she practiced in the healthcare and life sciences groups and focused extensively on advising clients in the areas of clinical research and health data privacy, with an emphasis on these issues in a global context.  Before attending law school, Haley worked as a research associate in HIV vaccine clinical trials in San Francisco.