Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

Overview

Leveraging & Protecting Data

Our team helps clients protect and leverage data and use it creatively and safely while remaining fully compliant with the many applicable laws and regulations. Our lawyers also navigate clients through the complexities posed by emerging technologies and an ever-evolving landscape of data privacy and cybersecurity requirements.

We advise clients in designing and implementing cost-effective, business-minded solutions to their most complex data-driven legal issues and concerns. With a focus on long-term resilience, our lawyers take the time to understand each client’s technologies, business processes and goals. We then deliver practical, tailored future-proof strategies and data governance structures to limit their exposure, position them to achieve their full potential and ensure compliance on a global scale. We think strategically and pragmatically, advising clients across a wide range of industries from e-commerce, retail, technology, higher education and hospitality to the highly regulated financial services, insurance, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors.  

Guidance at Every Stage

Our experience spans a wide range of privacy and data protection matters involving data use, collection, retention, sharing and disposal. Our services include:

• Risk assessment and prevention
• Data privacy impact assessments, protection, policies, procedures and incident preparedness training
• Cybersecurity and trade secret, confidential information and personal data protection strategies
• Global legal and regulatory compliance
• Internal audits, and government inquiries and investigations
• Data privacy litigation and enforcement actions
• Information security program design and implementation
• E-commerce and internet-related issues
• Outsourcing arrangements and associated risks and responsibilities
• Data breaches, response and crisis management
• Intellectual property and technology transactions
• Emerging technologies matters, such as AI, fintech, Internet of Things (IoT), metaverse law and connected medical devices
• Sensitive data collections, including biometric and geolocation information

Regulatory and Compliance

Our attorneys are data privacy regulatory authorities well-versed and experienced in cybersecurity and privacy law matters on a global scale. We have long-established, effective working relationships with officials at key government agencies and ready access to agency decision-makers, which optimizes our ability to affect action. Should a compliance violation or data breach occur, we help clients manage the associated risk and respond swiftly and effectively while striving to end matters confidentially.