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Eric Stocking is an attorney in the firm’s Corporate & Securities Practice Group. He has experience assisting clients with financial services, e-commerce, cybersecurity, data privacy, and transportation and logistics matters. He assists with M&A transactions by conducting due diligence, drafting disclosure schedules, reviewing purchase agreements, and drafting ancillary transaction documents. Eric also provides support to clients complying with federal, state and European Union privacy laws and offers guidance on federal regulatory requirements. Eric is designated as a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

In 2026, a wide range of California laws regulating the development, marketing, and use of artificial intelligence (AI) go into effect. Together, these bills impose new requirements on generative AI developers, frontier-model companies, healthcare-related AI tools, platforms distributing AI-generated content, and businesses that rely on algorithmic pricing. With the deadline to comply coming up quickly

A New Approach to Data Regulation

With the U.S. Department of Justice’s Data Security Program (DSP) now in full effect, companies that handle sensitive personal data, operate across borders, or rely on global vendor ecosystems face an increasingly complex compliance environment. The DSP restricts certain data transactions involving individuals and countries of concern, imposes new