Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (UK) LLP

Cyber, Privacy & Data Innovation

Partner

Alex Sobolev advises on compliance, risks and strategy for operating business online. His practice focuses on data protection matters, but intersects with consumer law, software development and crypto.

Alex’s multidisciplinary practice and transatlantic experience enable him to provide strategic commercial advice for technology led companies, including coordinating and implementing data and consumer risk mitigation projects, providing outsourcing advice and developing key legal risk mitigation strategies in relation to products where the pace of innovation nearly always outpaces the law.

He has advised companies at all stages of the corporate lifecycle, from software development and product launch, through technology licensing, sale and purchase, to mergers and acquisitions of data and tech-heavy businesses. He has assisted organisations with the design, development and implementation of global data protection and compliance policies, as well the management of risk and security associated with data retention, processing and transfer.

Society for Computers in Law Law Society of England and Wales

University of Oxford, B.A. University of Oxford, Masters BPP Law School, Post Graduate Diploma in Law College of Law, Post Graduate Diploma, Legal Practice