Career
David advises clients on all aspects of technology and data law, including data privacy, information security, artificial intelligence (AI), financial reporting, data governance, technology-related transactions, and data monetization and use. His pragmatic, risk-based approach helps clients see around corners and achieve their objectives.
David has extensive experience enabling his clients’ data leverage and monetization strategies, business plans, and products and services as they confront the novel and rapidly evolving complexities in this space. He combines deep knowledge of the privacy, security, and data landscape with practical risk-informed compliance advice, which is highly valued by technology and traditional companies seeking to build their data and technology strategies.
David has advised clients on a multitude of privacy, data, and technology-related issues, including data ownership and use rights, compliance with U.S., federal, and international privacy laws, data localization and transfers, commercial technology transactions, identity management, data brokerage, advertising and media data issues, data mapping, consent-flow management, privacy and cyber financial reporting, and privacy and data due diligence related to hundreds venture financing, mergers and acquisitions, and IPO transactions.
David is a pioneer in the data protection space and is regularly sought after to handle complex and cutting-edge data security and protection issues, including data breach response, cybersecurity risk management, incident response planning and preparedness, cyber insurance coverage, and running multidisciplinary tabletop and scenario-base exercises for information security teams, top management, and boards. He is a leading voice on incident response strategies, communications, and impact mitigation, and has helped thousands of companies successfully respond to security incidents, including navigating the SEC’s cyber security rule, and developing materiality assessment processes and playbooks.
David’s clients range from startups to Fortune 500 multinationals across all industries, including ecommerce, data brokers, consumer products, hospitality, social media, technology, health care, AI, finance, and energy.
David’s career has included roles such as U.S. practice group leader of a prior technology firm’s nationally ranked practice, global co-chair of another major law firm’s data protection practice, and assistant general counsel at AIG. David has also held leadership positions in the American Bar Association, including chairing the Science and Technology Law Section’s Information Security Committee. He frequently speaks and writes, is interviewed on technology, privacy, and data security issues, and is highly respected in the field.
