James Koenig

With a background combining business experience, legal expertise, and technology, Jim Koenig takes a unique, integrated approach to meet his clients’ needs relating to global privacy compliance, innovative data uses, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, breach response, litigation, and regulatory enforcements.

Jim co-chairs Troutman Pepper’s global Privacy + Cyber Practice and serves on its AI Leadership Taskforce. He represents clients in the technology, telecommunications, gaming, AdTech, data broker, pharmaceutical/healthcare, financial services, energy, autonomous vehicle, and manufacturing industries, including 35% of Fortune 100 companies.

Jim has represented global clients on privacy, AI and cyber projects involving more than 125 countries and co-founded the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Jim also is a named inventor in six patent applications.

Drawing on his experience and reputation with regulators (including as an expert to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFBP) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights (OCR)), Jim regularly advises companies on compliance practices and through regulatory investigations. His work includes serving as an FTC and OCR Independent Assessor or as the lead subject matter expert designing privacy, security and AI programs in numerous high-profile enforcements involving social media, mobile, AdTech, gaming and healthcare companies.