Cybersecurity
Fail to prepare. Prepare to fail. Our cybersecurity team provides rapid response support when it matters most, and the proactive legal frameworks to help ensure an incident never becomes a crisis.
Our cybersecurity team combines deep specialist legal expertise with proven experience managing some of the most significant cyber incidents and data breaches that affect organisations locally and internationally. We are experienced in coordinating compliance, notifications, regulatory response and managing dispute across diverse territories (whether for smaller or global concerns); and we work alongside you, your technical response teams and insurers to manage the legal dimensions of a crisis effectively. We also help curate specialist trusted advisers to assist in crisis comms, and IT, forensic investigations and remedial plans.
We also help organisations build genuine cyber resilience through proactive legal preparedness, so that when the worst happens, you are ready. Organisations that have invested in clear incident response plans, well-drafted contracts, properly structured cyber governance and a trusted legal partner are consistently better placed to contain the impact of an incident, satisfy regulators and preserve brand value and customer confidence.
If you are currently dealing with a cyber incident, please contact our emergency breach response line immediately. If you would like to discuss cyber preparedness, cybersecurity, information security or resilience compliance or any other aspect of cybersecurity law, our team is ready to assist.
Featured experience
Education sector
Advising on post-incident reporting and legal obligations, including advice on insurance provision and legal action against providers to recover uninsured loss.
US law firm
Providing virtual global regulatory compliance and core company commercial advice for a wide variety of its clients, including leading global technology solutions and innovators.
Global technology provider
Advising on strategic global data privacy compliance projects, data centre services arrangements, data security, international transfers and biometric regulation and risk mitigation.
Global data centre operator
Advised on all its global data privacy and security compliance and regulatory arrangements in the UK and Europe (as well as specialist projects in the US).
Key contacts
Philip James
Partner
