Eyvonne Mallett

Eyvonne Mallett focuses her practice on a broad range of privacy, cybersecurity and contractual matters, with an emphasis on financial services regulation and compliance and ad tech. She has handled data privacy, cybersecurity and financial regulatory matters for clients across a diverse range of industries, including financial services, financial technology (fintech), technology, advertising technology, health care and construction. 

Eyvonne has extensive experience drafting and negotiating agreements including, but not limited to data and technology transactions that protect privacy, developing privacy policies and programs, and providing counsel on public policy issues in relation to privacy law and federal procurement law. Clients consistently seek her guidance in creating privacy and data security programs and policies in order to ensure compliance with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the expanding array of U.S. state privacy laws.

On the cybersecurity front, Eyvonne advises clients on cybersecurity policies, risks, incident response and proactive cyber incident preparedness, including alignment with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework, while also guiding senior management on mitigating liability risks.

Eyvonne also has deep financial regulatory experience in the financial institution, fintech, cryptocurrency and digital assets space, at both state and federal levels, including the U.S. DOJ, SEC, Department of Treasury, FinCEN, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and state regulators. Eyvonne advises crypto exchange operators, non-fungible token (NFT) platforms, money services businesses, token issuers, and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) on navigating legal and regulatory obligations, mitigating risks and fostering business growth.

In particular, Eyvonne helps her clients innovate by incorporating AI, machine learning, cryptocurrency, blockchain, mobile payments, smart contracts and distributed ledger technology into financial products and services. Her practice extends to managing deals involving cryptocurrency and other digital assets, blockchain, payment technologies, security and utility tokens.

As a former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) lawyer, Eyvonne leverages her background to assist companies across various industries on contractual issues. While at the FDIC, she was a senior lawyer within the legal services and special contracts group, where she provided counsel on special contracts for external financial services firms, law firms, legal support contractors and technology contractors. 

Previously, Eyvonne was a senior lawyer within the procurement law group of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In this role, she counseled the general counsel and senior leadership team on federal government contract requirements related to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Veteran Affairs Acquisition Regulation (VAAR); cybersecurity and cybersecurity policies; and data privacy, data procedures and programs that touched upon both their standard federal contracts, as well as those involving HIPAA concerns.