Mark SURMAN has been a lawyer at the Bar of LYON since December 2017. He works principally in the following fields: personal data protection, health data,  intellectual property law and new technologies.

His work mainly involves advising and assisting professionals in the health sector on:

• their concerns in dealing with digital health matters (qualification of software solutions, General Terms and Conditions, General conditions of use, licenses and IT services),
• their compliance with the GDPR and the French Data Protection Act (GDPR audits, data protection impact analyses, compliance policies and procedures),
• the challenges they are facing in protecting, managing and valorising data and databases,
• drafting and reviewing contracts (partnership, co-development, consortium agreements, MTA, DTA).