McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation

Alex Southwell is one of the nation’s leading technology-focused litigators and investigations lawyers. He is regularly called upon by numerous prominent global companies to counsel on—as well as handle investigations, enforcement defense, and litigation related to—a wide array of privacy, data breach, theft of trade secrets, computer fraud, and network and data security issues, often for the most novel, challenging, or technical matters. A former federal prosecutor, he advises companies victimized by cyber-crimes and has extensive experience with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Economic Espionage Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and Stored Communications Act, and related federal and state statutes, as well as with privacy compliance counseling and FTC and AG regulatory enforcement.