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Chambers Review

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Data Protection - Europe-wide

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Bird & Bird boasts a highly esteemed data protection offering across Europe with particular strength in the UK and Italy, as well as Germany, France and Spain. The firm is popular with global companies for data retention obligations and privacy investigations. It also assists with data transfer and cloud security matters. It is particularly active for clients in the automotive, technology, financial and consumer goods sectors, advising on GDPR implementation and compliance with new regulations. Bird & Bird also handles data protection matters relating to digitalisation, including artificial intelligence matters.

Notable practitioners

Ruth Boardman in London and Ariane Mole in Paris co-lead the firm's data protection practice.

Work Highlights

  • Bird & Bird is advising the European Commission on the implementation of its European Blockchain Services Infrastructure project.

Strengths

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Bird & Bird has a pragmatic team who are speedy in answering clients. The answers include not only the applicable legislation but also solutions based on the clients' needs.

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They are well informed about pending laws and regulations and incorporate those into the strategic discussions.

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Bird & Bird know how to be creative, and their data protection approach is perfectly in line with the expectations of today's large tech groups.

Data Protection respondent
Europe

We go to Bird & Bird for all our data protection advice as we particularly value their unique blend of expertise in various fields. They have in-depth industry knowledge.

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