About

I am Co-Head of Lewis Silkin's Data, Privacy & Cyber Group. I work in three main areas: data, privacy & cyber, general employment law, and sports law.

I advise some of the world's leading companies on the adoption of global privacy strategies and on the full range of data protection / privacy issues including: data protection & privacy audits; data subject rights requests management; dealing with data breaches and cyber security incidents; extra-EEA / UK data transfers; advising generally on data privacy policies & notices; handling Information Commissioner's Office, and other regulatory queries or investigations; marketing & cookie issues; and, advising both deployers and providers/developers on all things artificial intelligence related.

I hold the CIPP/E data protection & privacy accreditation from the IAPP and have spoken all over the world on data protection & privacy issues. I am also the Expert Chair for the Ius Laboris Data Privacy group.

I deal with all general day-to-day employment queries and have significant expertise in advising on the practical implications of TUPE and on large scale redundancy/dismissal procedures. I am regularly instructed to act for clients in relation to Employment Tribunal and High Court claims. I am also regularly engaged on investigations (both open and legally privileged) for clients about a variety of different issues.

I am part of the Lewis Silkin Sports Group and have a varied practice encompassing many different areas of sports law (with a specialism in data & privacy and employment sports law).

Experience

Data, privacy & cyber

  • Conducting audits of all personal data flows and related privacy practices for a number of well-known organizations
  • Advising a number of business on their high level data governance and data monetisation strategies
  • Assisting various companies with ICO and international regulatory investigations (including the CNIL in France, the Garante in Italy, the APD in Belgium and a number of German regional regulators)
  • Advising various multinational companies on extra-EEA / UK transfer issues, the fallout from the Schrems ii litigation and the potential impact of Brexit
  • Assisting a number of companies in relation to breach / cyber incident response including a long running and high profile ransomware attack
  • Advising a number of different businesses from employers to provider / developers on all things artificial intelligence from AI governance strategies, to detailed AI audits and analysis of the effects of worldwide AI regulation (including the EU AI Act) as well as detailed analysis of deployment of various AI tools from the workplace (e.g. AI recruitment tools) to the marketplace (e.g. use of generative AI in the consumer space)
  • Speaking regularly about data protection in the UK, Brussels, Milan, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States

Employment

  • Advising various businesses (including some PLCs) on high level executive departures
  • Coordinating and advising on a multi-jurisdictional review of employment structures around the world for a multinational company
  • Undertaking a redundancy exercise for a multinational company involving 500 affected employees
  • Successfully defending a large UK PLC against a race and sexual orientation discrimination claim in a three week ET hearing

Sport

  • Working for a sport's governing body on its regulatory employment structure for a league
  • Advising a major sports club on the data & privacy angles of its marketing plans

Testimonials

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'Alexander Milner-Smith is the one I work with the most in the team. He works enormously, always responds efficiently, pragmatically and quickly to the questions/files that we submit to him. He is remarkable, accurate and available. He never loses sight o
Legal 500
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