Clients of Ropes & Gray LLP benefit from the London data, privacy and cybersecurity team’s close cross-Atlantic collaboration with colleagues in Washington DC. Compliance, advisory and enforcement matters relating to the collection, storage and processing of data all make up part of the regular practice, as, increasingly, does breach response work. ‘Great leader’ Rohan Massey helms the UK offering, closely supported by the ‘engaging, knowledgeable and well respected’ Edward Machin.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • 'Very personable, knowledgeable and commercial, and easy to work with.'
  • 'Rohan Massey - smart, capable and strategic.'
  • 'High quality team with great knowledge of data protection issues, challenges and solutions.'
  • 'Rohan Massey is a great leader of the team with international knowledge.'
  • 'Edward Machin is engaging, knowledgeable and well respected for his commentary in this area.'

Key clients

  • The Carlyle Group, L.P.
  • Bain Capital
  • HUTCHMED
  • Advent / Neilsen
  • Follicular Lymphoma Foundation
  • Areteia Therapeutics, Inc
  • WireCo WorldGroup Inc
  • Hologic Inc
  • GHO Capital Partners
  • Sequoia Capital Operations LLC
  • Audley Travel
  • MVF

Work highlights

  • Advising Carlyle and its AlpInvest business to ensure its global data compliance program continues to meet GDPR and CCPA and other jurisdiction-specific requirements.
  • Advising Bain Capital on a project to monitor its portfolio companies’ compliance with laws relating to data privacy and cybersecurity.
  • Providing ongoing privacy, data protection and information security advice to HUTCHMED.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Rohan Massey

Other key lawyers

Edward Machin