Philip McCormick

Andy has extensive experience assisting a wide-variety of companies with their intellectual property and technology matters, including complex IP and software licensing issues, the acquisition, protection and maintenance of IP, privacy issues, and general business affairs. Andy has represented many leading digital, mobile and media companies in a variety of fields, and has worked with many software and application developers, ed-tech and fin-tech companies. Andy has a robust practice advising multinational companies with respect to data privacy and security, and in particular, the ever-evolving statutory compliance landscape and student data privacy. Prior to WSMB, Andy was Counsel at Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner, where he worked in the Technology, Media and Entertainment Practice Group, and he was a litigator and IP lawyer at Thacher Proffitt & Wood for many years at the start of his career. Andy received his J.D. in 1990 from New York University School of Law and his B.S. in 1987 from Colgate University (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).