Damien Young

Dispute Resolution and Litigation. Data Protection. 

Damien heads the firm’s litigation and dispute resolution group, handling commercial disputes across a broad range of areas including data protection, public procurement and construction law. He has acted for a large number of public and private sector clients in High Court judicial review proceedings involving challenges to the award of public contracts. Damien advises on all aspects of EU and Irish data protection law, privacy and defamation matters. He acted for Ireland’s Data Protection Commission in the Schrems I and Schrems II litigation that resulted in decisions of the European Court of Justice setting aside the “safe harbour” and “privacy shield” regimes for EU/US data transfers.