Mayer Brown International LLP‘s cybersecurity and data privacy team provides ’brilliant advice‘ on incidents and breaches, as well as compliance and governance issues. The firm’s expertise in the financial services sector ensures that the group is particularly well placed to assist major names from that space. Mark Prinsley and Oliver Yaros oversee much of the work, and the latter is singled out by one client for providing ’effective, timely and intelligent support‘.
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Testimonials
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- 'The privacy and cybersecurity team at Mayer Brown is pro-active in reaching out to us about our specific projects and plans which helps keep us on track. They are highly responsive to any request and have a team with deep expertise so that they bring in the right person to assist us.'
- 'Oliver Yaros is the partner we work with on UK and EU issues and overall global privacy compliance efforts. He brings a business sense to our compliance efforts.'
- 'The Mayer Brown team have been excellent and understanding of our resource limitations. They communicate in a very effective and human way to bridge the gap between the different sectors that we operate in. The advice they have shared, and support to implement their suggestions, has been first class and we have made significant progress as a result.'
- 'It is great that they have an active interest in our work and did not simply take this engagement to tick a box. They regularly check in with us to confirm that we are on track with our action plan and this is something that we have not experienced from others.'
- 'Excellent data protection team providing brilliant advice in contentious areas swiftly and with pragmatism.'
- 'Oliver Yaros is a fantastic data legal expert and provides us with effective, timely and intelligent support.'
Key clients
- Previse Limited
- Andersen Tax LLC
- Northern Trust
- PwC
- Cummins
- Overmore Group
- Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM)
- HSBC
- Corney & Barrow Group Limited
- AXA XL
- EMK Capital
Work highlights
- Advising private equity firm EMK Capital on the implementation of new data protection policies and procedures following its acquisition of a majority stake in online marketplace Bark.com.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Mark Prinsley