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Rich Spilde

Partner

1800 Broadway, Suite 300, Boulder, CO 80302
P 303.473.4808
OVERVIEW

Rich focuses on technology, outsourcing and offshoring, telecom transactions, and data security matters.

He represents clients in a variety of industries, including financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, media and entertainment, natural resources, and software. Having served as in-house counsel for a large communications company, Rich truly appreciates the challenges and opportunities clients face to exploit and preserve the value of their technology assets in a rapidly evolving environment. He delivers sophisticated, practical advice to help his clients identify issues and structure technology transactions that manage their risk, protect their intellectual property, and meet their overall strategic objectives.

EXPERIENCE

Experience

Technology Transactions and Licensing
  • Intellectual property, idea, and trade secret protection, development, licensing and transfer   transactions and strategic advice.
  • Technology assets, solutions, equipment, and services development, marketing, licensing, deployment and distribution, including SaaS, cloud services, and open source software.
  • Content and data protection, licensing, and distribution.
Data Security and Privacy
  • Advice and counseling on matters involving data collection, handling, processing, storage, and transmission, and development of disclosures, policies, data retention, and data management practices.
  • Data privacy and information security legal and regulatory compliance.
  • Vendor, service provider, and third/nth party security risk management program and policy development, oversight, management, and audit.
  • Data breach and ransomware response planning, and data breach remediation, notification, and compliance assistance.
Strategic Sourcing and Procurement
  • Advice and counseling in connection with RFP planning, vendor review and selection, contract structuring, and negotiation of business process outsourcing (including HR, payment processing, business processing outsourcing, call center, help desk and support services), information technology services, offshoring, and software, hardware, and services procurement.
  • Professional Services, consulting, independent contractor and master services agreements. 
Telecommunications Services and Infrastructure 
  • Wholesale telecommunications services, including local access, network, private line, transport, wavelength, colocation, cloud, managed services, and other services.
  • Development, construction, operations and maintenance, and acquisition of telecommunications facilities and infrastructure and access and use rights, including conduit systems, fiber optic cables and related facilities, submarine cables, cellular, DAS, small-cell, and other communications technologies and assets.
  • Data center development, acquisition, construction, and operations.
Industry Experience
  • Aerospace
  • Banking
  • Cable Television
  • Critical Infrastructure Facilities and Services
  • Data Center Operations
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Mining & Natural Resources
  • Telecommunications Services 

PRACTICES

Practices

Telecoms Transactions
Intellectual Property
IT, Software and Technology Transactions
Outsourcing and Offshoring
Privacy and Information Security
Cybersecurity and Data Breach Defense
Cybersecurity and Privacy
NEWS AND INSIGHTS

News

Speaking Engagements

"Combating Risky User Behavior," CISO Executive Network Virtual Roundtable, Presenter, Denver, CO and Las Vegas, NV, February 10 and 17, 2021
"Cybersecurity and Data Privacy," Holland & Hart Health Law Compliance Webinar Series, 02/04/2021
"SOC of the Future - In-house, out-sourced, co-sourced, managed, which model will prevail for security operations going forward?," CISO Executive Network Virtual Roundtable, Presenter, Denver, CO and Las Vegas, NV, December 2 and 9, 2020
"Third Party to nTh Party Risk Management - Is Third Party Risk making it onto the corporate risk register? If not, why isn't it?," CISO Executive Network Virtual Roundtable, Presenter, Denver, CO and Las Vegas, NV, October 21 and 29, 2020
"Cloud Security & DevSecOps - Can we learn from our mistakes before we become the next victim?," CISO Executive Network Virtual Roundtable, Presenter, Denver, CO and Las Vegas, NV, September 2 and 17, 2020
"Managing Identities and Access - Why strong IAM controls are a pillar of any information security risk management program," CISO Executive Network Virtual Roundtable, Presenter, Denver, CO and Las Vegas, NV, June 10 and 17, 2020
"Data Protection, Security, and Privacy - Is the convergence of security and privacy inevitable?," CISO Executive Network Virtual Roundtable, Presenter, Denver, CO and Las Vegas, NV, April 15 and 22, 2020
"Threat Detection, Prevention, and Incident Response - are we improving our security operations?," CISO Executive Network Roundtable, Presenter, Denver, CO and Las Vegas, NV, February 19 and 26, 2020
"Cybersecurity," 2019 Wyoming Healthcare Compliance Bootcamp, 11/8/19
"AI and Machine Learning: What Is Big Data?," 17th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute, June 2019
"The State of Play for Cybersecurity and Privacy Laws: the GDPR and CCPA as Case Studies," Red Sky Security Conference, May 21, 2019
"Cybersecurity Breakfast Series: GDPR – Where Are We Now?," 03/06/2019
"GDPR Understood," Red Sky Security Conference, November 7, 2018
"Data-Centric Security," CISO Executive Network Roundtable, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 24, 2018
"Wyoming Cybersecurity Symposium," University of Wyoming, Presenter and Panelist, Laramie, WY, October 18, 2018
"Data-Centric Security," CISO Exectuive Network Roundtable, Denver, CO, October 16, 2018
"Cloud Security and Third Party Risk Management," CISO Executive Network Roundtable, Las Vegas, NV, September 19, 2018
"Cloud Security and Third Party Risk Management," CISO Executive Network Roundtable, Denver, CO, September 11, 2018
"Security Innovation," CISO Executive Network Roundtable, Las Vegas, NV, June 13, 2018
"Security Innovation," CISO Executive Network Roundtable, Denver, CO, June 5, 2018
"Post Breach Response - Incident Handling and Data Breach Communications," CISO Executive Network Roundtable, April 25, 2018
"Incident Response," CISO Executive Network Roundtable, April 10, 2018
"Cybersecurity Issues in the Colorado Community," Colorado Bar Association, April 4, 2018
"Are You Ready? Building or Strengthening Your Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan," March 13, 2018
"Talking to the Board: Improving Your Board's Cybersecurity Literacy," Association of Corporate Counsel, Ethics Day, December 6, 2017
"Cybersecurity Grabs Headlines, But Privacy Policies and Practices Are as Important," Holland & Hart Cybersecurity Breakfast Series, 11/16/2017
"Data Is the New Oil: Minding the Gaps in Cybersecurity," Information Security Corporate Counsel, Co-presenter, November 2017
"Protecting Data in the Wake of Recent Attacks and the Legal, Regulatory, and Industry Frameworks that Govern," Holland & Hart Cybersecurity Breakfast Series, October 24, 2017
"What's My Data Worth? How to Monetize Startup Data in 2017," Denver Startup Week Session, Presenter and Panelist, Denver, CO, September 29, 2017
"Health Law Webinar - Negotiating Healthy EHR and Healthcare IT Contracts: It's Not Just HIPAA," September 28, 2017
"Cybersecurity Oversight Training," National Cybersecurity Center, May 2017
"A Legal Perspective of Enterprise Startups," Boulder Startup Week, Panelist, Boulder, CO, May 2017
"User Behavior, Effects on Civil Society, Business and Government," Panelist, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, April 24, 2017
"PCI (Payment Card Industry) Risk and Compliance," Cybersecurity Breakfast Series, Boise, ID, April 4, 2017
"In House Counsel Cybersecurity Roundtable," Boise, ID, April 4, 2017
"Cybersecurity Oversight for Board Directors – 2017 Legal Risks and Issues," National Cybersecurity Center, February 21, 2017
"Privacy Regulation In the Information Age," Promise & Perils of Web 2.0 and Your Business, Holland & Hart seminar, Denver, CO, November 2009
"Vendor Due Diligence," IAPP Knowledge Net, Co-presenter, Denver, CO, September 2009
"Software Distribution and Resale Agreements," Intellectual Property and Technology Institute, Denver, CO, June 2009
"ProPay Data Security Summit," Speaker and Panelist, Snowbird, UT, November 2008
"Having Your Cookies and Keeping Your Customers: Privacy Issues, Challenges and Threats in Electronic Commerce," Outdoor Industry Association Rendezvous, Boston, MA, October 2008
"Seven Deadly Sins of Data Security Breaches," Speaker and Panelist, Association of Corporate Counsel, Denver, CO, April 2008
"Trends and Developments in Blogs and the Law," Colorado Software and Internet Association, Denver, CO, February 2006
"AI and Machine Learning: What Is Big Data?," 17th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute, Moderator, June 2019
EDUCATION AND ADMISSIONS

Education

University of Denver College of Law
J.D., 2000
  • Order of St. Ives
  • University of Denver Student Law Office
  • Transportation Law Journal, Member
  • Moot Court Board, Member
Colorado State University
B.A., 1995
  • Political Science

Bar Admissions

Colorado
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC AFFILIATIONS

Professional and Civic Affiliations

  • American Bar Association, Member 
  • Colorado Bar Association, Member 
  • International Association of Privacy Professionals, Member
  • Open Fairways, Board of Directors, 2008-2009 
  • Outdoor Industry Association, Member 
  • Volunteers of America
  • National Cybersecurity Center
  • Colorado State University Rams JD Steering Committee, Member 2015-present
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