England - London • Risk advisory
Ropes & Gray
Ropes & Gray is regularly instructed by clients in the private equity and financial services sectors, as well as from the healthcare and life sciences industries, to advise on all aspects of compliance and enforcement-related data privacy and protection matters. The team is led by ‘superb’ data protection and cybersecurity expert Rohan Massey, who specialises in international data transfer issues and global compliance matters. Working in close conjunction with its US offices, the team has particular strength in transatlantic data privacy mandates. At the senior associate level, the ‘knowledgeable, responsive, practical’ Edward Machin is also recommended.
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Testimonials
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‘Strong understanding of the law and an ability to deliver advices in an easily digestible form.’
‘Rohan Massey - Rohan is knowledgeable, and provides useful and practical advice, in an easy going manner.’
‘Rohan has great strength in depth within his team including at the most junior associate level. Rohan offers a flexile and sensible, commercial approach to challenging issues.’
‘Rohan is a great leader, is easy to deal with, hands on and a genuinely nice guy while being a superb lawyer.’
‘I have worked with only one person in the office, Edward Machin and he is excellent. Knowledgeable, responsive, practical.’
Key clients
- The Carlyle Group, L.P.
- Baring Private Equity Asia
- Bain Capital
- Providence Equity Partners
- HUTCHMED
- Advent/Nielsen
Work highlights
- Advising Carlyle Investment Management LLC on a complex technology restructuring to integrate certain businesses onto global platforms.
- Providing ongoing privacy, data protection and information security advice to HUTCHMED, on a wide range of challenging legal and regulatory issues in three of the world’s most highly regulated jurisdictions for the development and commercialisation of medicinal products (the European Union, the United Kingdom and the People’s Republic of China).
- Represented NielsenIQ, a portfolio company of Advent International, in connection with its entry into a definitive agreement to combine with GfK SE.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Rohan Massey