Ricky Kelly

Litigation and Dispute Resolution; Cyber and Data Protection

Ricky is a Partner, practising as part of the firm’s Dispute Resolution team. His core areas of practice are Dispute Resolution, Cyber and Data Protection, and Insolvency related litigation. Ricky has broad experience advising a range of foreign, national, multi-national and institutional clients in complex and high value cases in the Corporate, Debt Recovery, Insolvency and Restructuring, Insurance and Professional Risk, and Construction sectors.

Ricky co-leads RDJ’s Cyber and Data Protection Group. His experience includes the provision of advice and compliance training to a range of private and public organisations in relation to their implementation and compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018, and the provision of advices in relation to regulatory authority investigations.

Ricky leads RDJ’s Security Incident Response Group and has broad experience in the investigation, management and mitigation of cyber security incidents and personal data breaches including the engagement of independent forensic IT consultants, the preparation of security incident reports, notifications to the Data Protection Commission, Data Controllers and Data Subjects, and management of subsequent regulatory authority investigations.

BCL(University College Cork) LLM (University College Cork) Higher Diploma in Legal and Business (Waterford Institute of Technology) Diploma in Corporate Law and Governance (Law Society of Ireland) Fundamentals in Computer Forensics (BSI Group)