Lawyers

Jagvinder Singh Kang

Mills & Reeve LLP, West Midlands

Work Department

Technology

Position

Jagvinder is a Partner and the International & UK Head of IT Law (CIPP/E, CIPM) at Mills & Reeve. He is an award winning and market leading technology lawyer. He is featured in Legal 500's ‘Hall of Fame’ - which Legal 500 confirms: “highlights, to clients, the law firm partners who are at the pinnacle of the profession.” He has been recognised for 10 consecutive years in Legal 500’s 'Elite List of Outstanding Technology Lawyers Nationwide', and consistently been ranked number one for IT and technology law by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for a decade. He is a specialist technology and GDPR/data protection lawyer (CIPM, CIPP/E – he has attained amongst the world’s highest certification score on this internationally regarded specialist data protection qualification), as well as a qualified software engineer (First Class BSc (Hons) Computer Science & Software Engineering), with over 20 years of expertise from having advised on billions of pounds worth of UK and international technology transactions, involving the full range of organisations from innovative start-ups to FTSE100, NASDAQ listed and other world-class corporates. He also advises on UK and global GDPR compliance projects as well as cyber-breaches.

Career

Trained at Pinsent Curtis (now Pinsent Mason), before joining Wragge & Co (now Gowling WLG). He then co-founded the specialist technology law firm, Technology Law Alliance. Following that, he joined Mills & Reeve as a Partner and the International & UK Head of IT Law (CIPP/E, CIPM).

Languages

English, Punjabi

Memberships

British Computer Society, International Association of Privacy Professionals, Law Society

Education

University of Birmingham: BSc Computer Science & Software Engineering (First Class BSc (Hons) Degree) – he also completed the academic requirements for Chartered Engineer status; University of Birmingham: CPE; Nottingham Law School: LPC (Distinction); The International Association of Privacy Professionals: Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), The International Association of Privacy Professionals: Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E)

Leisure

Family, Technology

Mentions

Risk advisory • London

Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity

TMT (technology, media and telecoms) • West Midlands

IT and telecoms

Hall of fame