‘Star lawyer’ Jörg Hladjk helms the dedicated cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice at Jones Day, frequently cooperating on key mandates with experienced practitioner Laurent De Muyter. In addition to GDPR compliance work, the team predominantly focuses on four key areas – advising on cyber and ransomware attacks, developing binding corporate rules for global data transfers, handling the data aspects of transactions, and assisting critical infrastructure companies. Clients are regularly able to benefit from the firm’s global network.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘They have high quality individuals who truly understand EU privacy and data protection laws. They are well rounded and have been advising on data privacy/protection since before the EU Data Directive. They provide great advice in the data breach context and regularly work with regulators on data breach, data transfer, and other issues. They operate efficiently.’

  • ‘Jörg Hladjk is a star lawyer. He is a great communicator and provides practical advice that is readily implemented.'

  • 'Jörg Hladjk can take a chaotic situation and bring order and common sense.'

Key clients

  • Experian Information Systems
  • Verint Systems
  • Imperva
  • Affinius Capital
  • Orange
  • Trustwave
  • Visible Alpha
  • Sonoco

Work highlights

  • Advising Orange on a data protection and cybersecurity assessment of MásMóvil's data processing activities in Spain and across the EU, in the context of its agreement with MásMóvil to combine their businesses in Spain.
  • Advising Affinius Capital on GDPR compliance in the context of US securities laws, including policies and procedures and related issues, such as data transfer mechanisms.
  • Advising Verint Systems on data transfers, including the new standard contractual clauses for international data transfers.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Jörg Hladjk

Other key lawyers

Laurent De Muyter