Almost every business has commercially sensitive information, personal data or big datasets underpinning its assets, revenue and growth strategy.

As regulators around the world follow GDPR standards and plan tighter controls around the use and transfer of personal data, you need to stay ahead of major changes. This will help ensure compliance and minimise the risk to your business. In addition, appropriate data handling is crucial to your corporate reputation and to giving you a competitive edge in a global market.

Our specialist Data Protection and Cyber team has over 20 years' experience and is one of the biggest in Europe. We are exceptionally well positioned to take care of all challenges associated with data in an international context.

We act for clients at the heart of the data economy, breaking unprecedented ground in the application of data across borders and regulatory frameworks. We are trusted by global clients regarding:

• implementation and maintenance of GDPR
• development of new digital business models and products (privacy by design)
• set-up and support for data protection governance schemes
• group company data protection issues (including Binding Corporate Rules)
• employment data protection (including negotiations with work councils)
• international data protection (global legal roll-out of services and products)
• data breaches
• proceedings with Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) 
• drafting and negotiation of complex privacy agreements
• cross-border data transfers
• data subjects rights.
  
  

Vast technical, legal and regulatory expertise underpins all of our advice and we know that as these landscapes evolve, so too do the threats. We provide you with real world risk management and the insight we have gained through our excellent relationships with national regulators from all major European jurisdictions and worldwide.