SaaS and AI Vendor Lock-In: Drafting Exit Rights and Portability Terms

Ms. Belmont brings a diverse and deeply practical legal background spanning Big Law, Fortune 40, high-growth technology, nonprofit advocacy, and political campaign work. Her experience across these environments gives her a uniquely grounded perspective on the evolving needs of modern legal leaders. For the last five years, Ms. Belmont has also been an active member of TechGC, The L Suite’s private community for General Counsels at venture-backed tech companies. She recently co-chaired the 2025 Legal Velocity Summit and participated as a panelist at the Legal AI IPO conferences. Prior to joining The Suite, Ms. Belmont served as General Counsel of Civis Analytics, a data science and AI technology company that boasts Eric Schmidt and Tim O’Reilly as board members. There, she built and led the company’s legal, compliance, privacy, and cybersecurity functions. Ms. Belmont's work included establishing AI governance frameworks, designing enterprise privacy architecture, and co-leading the company’s FedRAMP Moderate authorization.

A partner in Torkin Manes’ Corporate/Commercial Group, Ms. Lifshitz practices exclusively in the areas of technology, privacy and cybersecurity law. As Chair of the firm’s Technology Group, she has extensive expertise in preparing and negotiating a wide range of technology agreements, including Internet-related, m-commerce and e-commerce agreements, cloud computing/managed services agreements, mobile payment/fintech agreements, and reseller, distribution, system acquisition, development, and master services agreements. Ms. Lifshitz's practice also includes the acquisition of artificial intelligence products/systems and blockchain technologies. She represents both vendors and users of technology and excels at negotiating large and complex technology transactions and procurements. Ms. Lifshitz's clients range from the private sector to the public sector, including federal/provincial governments. She also has an extensive cross-border practice, as well as considerable experience helping non-Canadian companies, especially American entities, enter and thrive in the Canadian marketplace. Ms. Lifshitz is also the Chair of Torkin Manes’ Privacy & Data Management Group, where she advises Canadian and international clients on compliance with Canadian privacy and cybersecurity requirements. She routinely provides clients with advice on trans-border data transfers, inter-company privacy arrangements, breach coaching, privacy compliance in corporate transactions and negotiations, and privacy considerations in technology transactions. Ms. Lifshitz also advises on complying with Canada’s anti-spam legislation.