Sylvie Bourassa is an associate in Lowey’s New York office and is a part of the firm’s Securities Fraud, Data Privacy, and Antitrust practice groups. She litigated several data privacy cases including Frasco v. Flo Health, Inc., No. 3:21-cv-00757 (N.D. Cal.) She is also litigating In re Crop Protection Prods. Loyalty Program Antitrust Litig., No. 1:23-md-03062 (M.D.N.C.) a complex antitrust case alleging that Defendants Syngenta and Corteva, which each manufacture crop protection products used by farmers (including herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides), entered into anticompetitive and exclusionary contracts with distributors and retailers. Ms. Bourassa is a member of the New York Bar and of the California Bar. She is also a member of the Quebec Bar (retired attorney) and of the Law Society of Saskatchewan (inactive status). She practiced law in Canada for several years, mostly in the Province of Quebec. In Canada, she worked on civil mass actions representing plaintiffs in the Canadian Indian Residential Schools’ cases involving aboriginal students alleging physical and sexual abuse. She received her LL.B. in Civil Law from Universite du Quebec a Montreal, her LL.B. in Common Law from Dalhousie Law School and her LL.M. in Health Law from Universite de Sherbrooke. She is fluent in French.
Practice focus
- Antitrust
- Data Privacy
- Securities
Representative Successes
- Litigated Frasco v. Flo Health, Inc., No. 3:21-cv-00757 (N.D. Cal.) a very complex case alleging that Flo Health, who developed an application for women to track their period and pregnancy information, through Software Development Kits transmitted Custom App events to Ad defendants that conveyed health information either in the Custom App
- Event or associated parameter. Allegedly these Custom App Events were used by Ad Defendants to provide analytics and advertising as well as improve and enhance machine learning models. Defendant Meta was found liable for violating the California Information Privacy Act which is a first-of its kind landmark decision in the data privacy field.
- Litigated Lopez v. Apple Inc., No. 19-cv-04577 (N.D. Cal) a privacy class action alleging unauthorized recording of consumers by Apple through Siri its virtual assistant.
- Litigated cases alleging benchmark manipulation such as Laydon v. Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Case No. 12-cv-03419 (S.D.N.Y); Sullivan v. Barclays PLC, Case No. 13-cv-02811 (S.D.N.Y.); In re: London Silver Fixing Ltd. Antitrust Litigation, Case No. 14-md-02573 (S.D.N.Y.); Sonterra Capital Master Fund Ltd. v. Credit Suisse Group AG, Case No. 15-cv-871 (S.D.N.Y).