Marcus Evans

Practice Areas

Marcus Evans is data protection, privacy and cybersecurity lawyer based in London. As a partner in the communications media and technology team, Marcus leads our European Information Governance, Privacy and Cyber Security Group and is a member of our Artifical Intelligence and International Outsourcing Groups.

Marcus regularly coordinates multijurisdictional data privacy projects covering all aspects of data privacy compliance, including the roll out of privacy programmes, adoption of new technologies and working practices, cross border data flows, large scale or complex data subject right responses and liaison with regulators in relation to complaints and breaches. He also advises on artificial intelligence, data protection and freedom of information risks in e-commerce, commercial transactions, M&A and in relation to discovery and regulatory investigations, having had a broad outsourcing and tech practice before becoming focussed on data and AI regulatory issues. He counsels clients across sectors with a focus on financial services.

Marcus has spoken at industry events on AI, data protection, blockchain, outsourcing and open source software issues.

Marcus has been ranked as a leading Data Privacy practitioner by Chambers since 2020. Clients have said "Marcus is astonishingly pragmatic and client-oriented." "I always find Marcus to be very commercially astute, pragmatic, and determined to understand the company, our ambitions and our risk appetite, and to advise a way forward that can work best for us."