Deirdre Kilroy

Tech Transactions, Privacy & Data Protection

Deirdre is an experienced Irish lawyer. She specialises in complex technology, data and IP transactions, and advises innovative clients on the laws and regulations applicable to related products and services offered in Ireland and other parts of the European Union.

She relishes playing a meaningful role in our clients' projects, collaborating to ensure that their products and transactions achieve their commercial objectives, while complying with legal obligations. As she has many years' experience advising technology companies and innovative organisations doing business in Ireland, she often acts as lead Irish counsel on multi-jurisdictional projects, cross-border contracts, and legal analysis of new products or services. Clients appreciate the pragmatic, calm and commercial approach that she takes to tasks.

She advises on the regulation of technology, gaming and gambling, consumer goods and services sold digitally, content and data-rich industries in Ireland. She is particularly focused on artificial intelligence, robotics, social media, m/e commerce, big data, digital supply chain, and 'frontier' technologies. Clients in these sectors value the help she gives them in modelling legal relationships, and in applying appropriate weighting to their regulatory obligations.

Her practice involves advising clients on the data protection and privacy obligations arising in their transactions, in respect of their employees, and the goods and services that they offer for sale in Ireland and other parts of the EU. She has extensive experience analysing party's roles and responsibilities and determining how best to comply with the consequent GDPR and Irish laws in contracts, policies, products and services. Where a cyber security incident or data breach occurs, she helps clients to see the big picture, and to sensibly manage the legal risks, contract performance issues, regulator interactions, insurance obligations and other breach concerns.

She also helps clients to proactively manage conflicts, disputes, investigations and regulatory obligations involving technology, data, AI or IP assets, and related contracts.

Deirdre is a member of the Intellectual Property & Data Protection Committee of the Irish Law Society, a founding leader of the Irish chapter of ChIPs, and a member of the AI forum and data working group of Technology Ireland. She is also a member of the Society for Computers & Law and an external lecturer for the Law Society of Ireland.