Alan Charles Raul

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ALAN RAUL is the founder of Sidley’s highly ranked global Privacy and Cybersecurity practice and a member of the firm’s top ranked Crisis Management and Strategic Response team. He represents companies on U.S. and international privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and technology issues. Alan advises on global regulatory compliance, data breaches, and crisis management. He also focuses on issues concerning national security, constitutional, and administrative law. Alan handles enforcement and public policy issues involving the FTC, State Attorneys General, SEC, DOJ, FBI, DHS/CISA, the intelligence community, as well as other federal, state, and international agencies. He advises companies and financial sponsors regarding transactions involving cybersecurity, digital and communication technologies and data-centric business models, and related due diligence. Alan is also a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches classes on Digital Governance (Privacy, AI, Technology) and Cybersecurity.

Alan has represented a number of leading technology and internet companies whose devices, software, or users have been exploited by state-sponsored threat actors. Such events typically involve extensive coordination with U.S. and international law enforcement, cybersecurity and regulatory agencies, and intelligence services. Cyber crises often involve managing various legal, regulatory, B2B, and consumer risks as well as offering advice regarding a broad range of corporate communications and public messaging. He represented the internet technology company that collaborated successfully with the U.S. and UK governments to defend against and take down the Russian GRU’s malicious Cyclops Blink malware before the Ukraine invasion.