Data, privacy & cyber

Data is essential for innovation, trust and competitive advantage; our expertise helps you protect it.

We provide holistic management of your data privacy and cyber opportunities and challenges. With a focus on practical solutions and innovation, we ensure you are compliant and can manage risk across the UK, Europe and internationally.

Information flows internationally in today’s world – so it’s essential that the legal advice you receive comes with a global perspective.

No matter where your organisation processes data, personal or otherwise, our team can advise you across the full spectrum of data, privacy and cyber needs - from the workplace to the marketplace, and everything in between.

As well as helping you to protect your data, we also work with you to understand how your proprietary data can be lawfully leveraged to bring tailored products and services to the market, boost brand loyalty and grow market share.

Our experienced team can help you use innovative technologies such as AI to push the boundaries of customer service, workplace efficiencies and cyber resilience. After fully understanding the ecosystem you operate in, we can support the development and deployment of new technologies both in the market and within your workplace.

We know that errors – and resulting data breaches – do occur. In these situations, we will guide you through the challenges of a breach or any other data emergency, restoring your business quickly and effectively.

We offer more than a typical law firm

Data strategy and governance

We can help you formulate and implement a robust data strategy and governance framework. This includes defining data management policies, establishing data quality standards and setting up governance structures within your organisation to ensure data privacy and security. We look at your general data strategy, data sets you intend to lawfully leverage for commercial purposes, any new technologies you may be deploying and any risks you are exposed to in relevant jurisdictions.

At the same time, the real challenge for businesses is bringing these strategies and/or governance structures to life on the ground.

We supply privacy operatives who will work closely with your teams, helping to implement your data strategy and/or governance framework so that it’s embedded in the day-to-day operations of your organisation.

This hands-on approach helps to bridge the gap between strategy and execution, ensuring that your data strategy and/or governance initiatives deliver tangible results.

EU/UK representative

If your organisation does not have a presence in the EU/UK and you offer goods or services to individuals in the EU/UK or monitor their behaviour (including through tracking using cookies), you are likely to be required to appoint an EU/UK representative.

Our representatives will act as the point of contact for you with supervisory authorities and data subjects across the UK/EU, enabling smooth communication and ensuring compliance. We offer flexible fixed fee UK/EU subscription services based on your requirements.

Data protection officer

In today’s data-driven world, a data protection officer (DPO) can be critical to help ensure your organisation is compliant with data protection laws and regulations. For certain organisations, the appointment of a DPO is mandatory.

Via our strategic partners, we offer an outsourced DPO service that is not just about compliance but also helps foster culture of data protection within your organisation.

Our DPOs provide advice and guidance on data protection impact assessments, conduct internal audits to ensure compliance and provide training and awareness to staff. By outsourcing the DPO role to a professional service, you can benefit from expert knowledge and experience, ensuring that you remain compliant with data protection laws, while you focus on your core business.

Whether your requirements include a long term DPO or a flexible monthly arrangement, our DPOs are seasoned experts who will support you with best practice.

AI assurance

As AI technologies become increasingly prevalent, it’s crucial to ensure that you can balance traditional data governance compliance (including policies, DPIAs, due diligence), data privacy regulations and ethical standards, with an understanding and alignment of technical standards, processes, metrics and mechanics.

Our AI assurance services use the latest technology to help you to adopt AI technologies responsibly. We focus on AI transparency, fairness, accountability and security, while ensuring that the underlying technology driving any AI system also aligns with these principles.

Our approach translates key principles into technical metrics and measures and tests them against the underlying technology that drives AI. Working closely with our partners, Holistic AI (who provide an AI governance platform), we ensure that you achieve the right balance between commercial objectives and legal compliance.

LOCS23

Our LOCS:23 certification services enable you to demonstrate compliance with GDPR requirements when handling client data, and build trust and confidence among your clients.

As Approved Implementers we can expertly guide you through the certification process. We can help you conduct a gap analysis to assess your organisation’s readiness for certification. If any gaps are identified, we will provide expert remediation.

Cyber risk

Cyber security risks evolve on daily basis, whether they involve new incursions by malicious actors or insider errors resulting in data loss.

We have long established strategic alliances with leading cyber security firms, enabling us to offer comprehensive cyber security solutions including advanced threat intelligence, incident response and cyber risk management.

We focus on supporting you so that you are:

Ready for cyber risks through preventative assessment and preparation, for example by conducting preventative cybersecurity assessments to identify third party security risks in your supply chain
Able to respond to an incident effectively and efficiently. This means ensuring you have the right external support available through our partnerships with digital investigators, cyber security firms and PR and communication experts

We can ensure that you’re able to recover operationally and reputationally by managing issues such as:

Investigations and enforcement action by regulators
Rights requests by affected individuals
Compensation claims – either individually or class actions
Liability issues, where a supplier is to blame, or a claim is denied by the insurer