Ira G. Parghi

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Counsel

  Firm Name

  Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Work: Spearheaded health system's responses to over 35 different privacy-related inquiries
  investigations from U.S. federal
  state regulators seeking to enforce patient privacy
  data privacy laws
  these included lengthy
  high-profile investigations with the potential for enforcement action.
  Supervised the investigation, analysis, documentation, remediation,
  , where appropriate, patient
  regulatory notification in over 200 potential privacy incidents across a major U.S. health system.
  Counseled start-up companies, hospitals, health systems, universities, a medical research institute, social service organizations,
  medical technology companies on a wide range of U.S.
  Canadian privacy
  information security laws, institutional policies,
  best practices.
  Advised medical technology company on privacy incident management, privacy considerations with respect to smart devices that collect, use,
  transmit health information,
  privacy obligations under U.S. federal
  applicable state laws.
  Counseled post-acute care system on potential privacy incidents, including analysis under several applicable U.S. federal
  state laws, remediation,
  h
  ling of regulatory investigation.
  Spent several months on secondment to privacy office of a leading U.S. research university, where duties included advising on privacy incident investigation
  h
  ling, reviewing
  formulating policies on privacy in clinical care
  research contexts,
  supporting privacy team generally.
  Advised pharmaceutical companies on potential privacy issues arising out of multi-site, multinational research projects.
  Counseled investment management companies
  other institutional clients on privacy-
  security-related diligence
  disclosures in context of corporate transactions.
  Advised large insurer on potential privacy questions involved in proposed genetic testing initiative.
  Successfully represented large professional organization in complex complaint brought against it before Ontario Information
  Privacy Commissioner.