At Norton Rose Fulbright, Marcus Evans leads the firm’s European data protection, privacy and cybersecurity group, while Jonathan Ball co-heads the EMEA-wide cybersecurity practice. Lara White is another key senior contact, and is singled out by one client as ‘a leader in her field’. The firm regularly assists with the various issues sparked by the roll-out of data intensive products across multiple jurisdictions, as well as advising on global compliance policies and procedures; praise is given for always providing ‘innovative, practical solutions’. On the cybersecurity side, breach response is an area of strength.
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- 'I have worked with the data protection team at Norton Rose Fulbright for many years and have always found them very client-centric, expert lawyers in their fields and collaborative.'
- 'I have worked with Marcus Evans and Lara White for many years and found them very knowledgeable, responsive and commercially minded.'
- 'Norton Rose Fulbright is a great law firm. They always deliver what you want from them, but they also suggest innovative, practical solutions. This means that the activity I have engaged them on ends up being more productive, effective and efficient than I had anticipated in my brief.'
- 'I like the way they are prepared to give opinions and views on my proposals, not simply regurgitate the law back at me. They are happy to go the extra mile - sometimes even carrying out training for the business and setting up teams to support activities I have engaged them on.'
- 'Lara White is a leader in her field. Provides easy to understand, commercially focused advice and is very personable and easy to work with.'
- 'They have an extremely detailed knowledge of data protection and wider privacy law and most importantly are able to apply this in the context of the challenges faced by a large private equity backed business.'
- 'My main contact is Lara White and I find her honest, candid, thorough, constructive and with a friendly approach which is very refreshing. She is clearly very knowledgeable on data protection matters. She is an excellent presenter and has resolved some activities for me pretty quickly that I thought were knotty and messy, without any fuss and without losing her sense of humour.'
- 'I work with Shiv Daddar - he is very knowledgeable, happy to give risk-based views on matters, gets to the core of the issue quickly, and provides practical advice that I can act on immediately.'
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Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.
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Marcus Evans, Jonathan Ball