David Lashway

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DAVID LASHWAY is co-chair 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 is acknowledged as one of the leading lawyers for crisis management, cybersecurity, data security incidents, misinformation, trade secret theft, and related investigation matters. He has advised private and public organizations on significant and material cybersecurity incidents across almost every critical infrastructure sector, including financial services, energy, manufacturing, technology, water, defense, municipal government, retail, transportation, and hospitality industries. He has significant experience in addressing election security and misinformation-related issues, and was deeply involved in the investigations into the 2016 and 2020 actions targeting various U.S. political parties. He has served as the lead lawyer advising on the legal response to operationally impactful malware for a number of Fortune 500 entities, and led the incident response, associated investigations and litigations for several companies impacted by the NotPetya malware incident. He routinely leads responses to ransomware-related matters.