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M. Bertie Magit

(she/her/hers)

Associate

[email protected]

+1.858.314.1573

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Bertie focuses her practice on commercial and licensing transactions and regularly advises clients on the full life cycle of an agreement – from initial drafting and negotiation through execution, performance and termination, as applicable. She helps clients in a broad range of industries such as biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, technology, consumer products, entertainment, and media. 

Bertie advises clients in all stages, from early stage startups to mature public companies, in a wide variety of transactions, including intellectual property license and assignment agreements, research and development agreements, collaboration and option agreements, sponsorship agreements, influencer agreements, and other routine business transactions.

While earning her JD, Bertie worked as a legal clerk at BET Networks (a subsidiary of Paramount), a legal extern for WGBH, and a legal intern for California Lawyers for the Arts. In addition, she was a staff editor of the Boston College Intellectual Property and Technology Forum and was a teaching assistant for torts and property courses at Boston College Law School.

Prior to attending law school, Bertie worked as a producer in California’s entertainment industry.

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After years of internal discussion, the Board of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), at their March 8th meeting, voted to progress toward formalizing the proposed regulations on risk assessments and automated decisionmaking technology (ADMT). 

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Consumer privacy protection must have been tops on the New Jersey legislature’s list of New Year’s resolutions. The year was just two weeks old and New Jersey became the first State in 2024 to enact a comprehensive privacy law and is now one of over a dozen states to have its own comprehensive privacy law (together, the Privacy States”). New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy wrote in a recent press release that he is proud New Jersey is better protecting its residents with Senate Bill 332/A1971 (the “Law”). This comprehensive law aims to protect consumer privacy by creating strict requirements for how applicable companies may use and collect personal data from New Jersey consumers and provides such consumers with rights of access, modification and deletion of their personal data.

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This post will analyze the discussion and draft regulations for risk assessments and automated decisionmaking technology. The board spent over three hours on this agenda item, focusing closely on defined terms and the timing of certain requirements. As these regulations will impose new burdens and restrictions on many businesses, the board is walking a tightrope, balancing between protecting the consumer and burdening businesses.

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The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CCPA”), has been further expanded under Governor Gavin Newsom. The signing of Assembly Bills 947 and 1194 expands the protection of sensitive personal information. Read more to find out the impacts of these bills and the Delete Act.

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A Mintz team led by Richard Gervase, Member and Chair of the firm’s Royalty & Revenue Interest Financing Transactions Group, advised global investment firm Sixth Street in a non-dilutive, senior secured credit facility of up to $475 million for Apellis Pharmaceuticals. Apellis received $375 million in funding at close, with ability to access an additional $100 million under the facility at the Company’s option prior to September 2025, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions.

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M. Bertie Magit

(she/her/hers)

Associate

San Diego