Nigel Howard

Nigel Howard is a partner at Covington & Burling LLP and serves as one of the leaders of Covington’s multidisciplinary Digital Health Initiative, which brings together the firm’s considerable resources across the broad array of legal, regulatory, commercial, and policy issues relating to the development and marketing of digital health products and services.  Nigel has represented biopharma, tech and healthcare clients on their most important transactions involving intellectual property, technology and data for over 30 years.  He advises clients on their proprietary rights to data and global strategies for protecting these assets. He has represented companies in transactions covering the full spectrum of data related activities, including data capture and storage, business and operational intelligence, analytics and visualization, personalized merchandizing, and the related cloud computing services.