About the IAPP

Carys J. Webb is a senior attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York. She focuses her practice on data privacy, cybersecurity and intellectual property matters, with a particular emphasis on transactional work and regulatory compliance.

Ms. Webb has extensive experience advising clients on data privacy and intellectual property aspects of various corporate transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, spin‑offs and separations, licensing arrangements, partnerships, joint ventures and collaborations. Ms. Webb also negotiates and structures transactions involving the licensing, acquisition and commercialization of data and intellectual property assets across various industries and technologies.

Ms. Webb is a member of Cravath’s Data Security and Privacy Practice, where she also routinely assists clients with policy development and incident response.

Ms. Webb is from Princeton, New Jersey. She received a B.A. with Distinction in the Major from Yale College in 2012. After graduating from Yale, Ms. Webb was a legal analyst at an investment bank in New York City. She received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2017, where she was the Business and Bluebook Chair of the Law Review and a John M. Olin Fellow in Law & Economics.

Ms. Webb joined Cravath in 2017 and was named a senior attorney in 2024.