Eyvonne Mallett

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

Eyvonne has extensive experience drafting and negotiating agreements, including data and technology transactions that protect privacy, developing privacy policies and programs, and providing counsel on public policy issues in relation to privacy law, federal procurement law and AI governance policies. Clients consistently seek her guidance in creating privacy, data security, and AI governance programs and policies 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 AI front, Eyvonne assists clients with AI procurements, licensing data for AI model training and advising on services using generative AI. She is actively involved in drafting AI governance policies and participating in speaking engagements on AI trends. Her expertise extends to advising clients on integrating AI, machine learning, and generative AI technologies into their operations, ensuring ethical and compliant use of these technologies.

On the cybersecurity front, Eyvonne advises clients on cybersecurity policies, risks, incident response and proactive cyber incident preparedness. Eyvonne also guides senior management on mitigating liability risks and enhancing cyber resilience in the face of evolving threats, including deepfake attacks and advanced phishing schemes.

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 regulatory and 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 and litigated federal government contract requirements related to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and Veteran Affairs Acquisition Regulation (VAAR), cybersecurity and cybersecurity policies, data privacy, data procedures and programs that touched upon both their standard federal contracts, as well as those involving HIPAA concerns.