Erin Hanson is a partner in the Firm's Technology Transactions Practice within the Firm's Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group and Global Intellectual Property Group. She is also co-head of White & Case's Artificial Intelligence Taskforce. Erin is a transactional attorney, specializing in intellectual property ("IP") and technology transactions and counseling. Erin offers clients legal and commercial advice across the spectrum of standalone IP and technology transactions, including all aspects of IP and technology licensing, development and joint-development agreements, evaluation and testing agreements, strategic alliances, distribution, outsourcing, cloud and "as-a-service" arrangements. Erin also advises on the IP and technology aspects of M&A, private equity and other corporate transactions, including acquisitions, divestments, carve-outs, and joint ventures. Her work includes representing both strategic and financial clients, across a number of industries, including social media, software, hardware, telecommunications, clean-tech, data and analytics, digital health and financial services, in matters relating to a wide variety of technologies such as artificial intelligence, e-commerce, platform technologies, big data, autonomous driving, and the internet of things.