Cindy Hsieh

Drawing on experience across contract counseling, regulatory compliance, and tech and data privacy, Cindy helps clients structure, negotiate, and operationalize agreements; modernize digital capabilities; and manage risk across the product lifecycle. Cindy has experience advising on HIPAA, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and cybersecurity readiness. Her practice also encompasses corporate support on health care and technology transactions.

Clients in these sectors face complex, fast-evolving rules and overlapping obligations, from privacy-by-design and third-party risk management to AI adoption, cloud migrations, and post-acquisition integration. Cindy partners with business, compliance, and legal stakeholders to translate regulatory and technical requirements into practical, contract-backed controls and governance frameworks.

Cindy brings an in-house perspective from her prior internship experience with Highmark Health, where her work included advising on emerging technologies handling patient data and drafting HIPAA-compliant consents and releases. Cindy’s earlier service with the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania as a judicial intern sharpened her legal analysis and writing through drafting internal responses to allocatur petitions and participating in bench memo conferences. 

At law school, Cindy was a member of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review and supported faculty research on FDA regulation. Prior to joining Reed Smith as an associate, Cindy held a summer associateship and worked as a general trainee at the firm’s Paris office. This combination of judicial, in-house, and international law firm experience enables Cindy to frame issues clearly and deliver solutions that are both defensible and practical.