Characterized by an ‘unparalleled’ depth of knowledge, the privacy and cyber practice at Latham & Watkins LLP leverages its international reach to offer global compliance advice, including advisory support, international cybersecurity incident response, privacy litigation and regulatory investigations. The wider firm’s transactional practice is also supported by the cyber team, who offer strategic data and privacy insights during corporate transactions. Practice head Michael Rubin works out of San Francisco, and is recommended as the ‘go-to data privacy and security lawyer for technology companies’. In Washington DC, Jennifer Archie ‘is simply outstanding’: her practice spans FTC investigation defense and critical data-related crisis, including those involving nation-state attacks. Antony Kim, also in DC, focuses on public and private enforcement regarding cybersecurity, data usage and governance, and consumer protection. Serrin Turner is a key name in New York, representing high profile corporates in privacy litigation. Marissa Boynton is based in DC, and handles privacy-related investigations, computer fraud and cybercrime related incidents, and privacy issues arising in corporate transactions. Clayton Northouse, DC, has particular experience in cross-border transactional matters, also an area of strength for San Francisco based Robert Blamires, who is dual qualified across the US and England and Wales.

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Testimonials

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‘Jennifer Archie is the single best outside counsel I have ever had the good fortune to work with. She leads an excellent team of skilled and efficient professionals.’
‘Jennifer Archie is intelligent, pragmatic and solution oriented.’
‘Their depth of knowledge is unparalleled. The Latham team wins cases and does a fantastic job with strategy. ’
‘Michael Rubin is the go-to data privacy and security lawyer for technology companies. He deeply understands laws, the motivations of regulators and legislatures, and technology. Across multiple companies, Michael Rubin has been trusted with the highest stakes matters. ’
'Tremendous experience and expertise in the field of practice. Fantastic, practical guidance backed by focused, and effective, work in the field.'
'Jennifer Archie is simply outstanding. Jennifer's knowledge of matters related to cybersecurity is unsurpassed as is her commitment to ethical standards and efficacy. Jennifer actively engages and counsels clients on what is best in the long term, educating all impacted parties on their options and the potential consequences of their actions. In so doing she saved my particular company millions of dollars and untold headaches. I cannot recommend her highly enough, and would not want anyone but her by my side if I am every confronted with an event in her area of practice.'
'Latham's global footprint is a huge asset/advantage when it comes to data privacy and data protection. Instead of consulting with a U.S. attorney about European regulations, Latham gives me the opportunity to work with counsel based in the EU/UK (and beyond). Plus the advice they give is pragmatic and tailored to our risk tolerance.'

Key clients

Apple, Inc.
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Otonomo, Inc.
Truthfinder
Accellion, Inc.
Thomson Reuters, Inc.
Binance.US
Gen Digital, Inc.
AppsFlyer, Inc.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Discord, Inc.
Drizly / Cory Rellas

Work highlights

Secured a victory on behalf of Apple when a split Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the dismissal of a consumer class action alleging that nearly all iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Apple TVs were defective because of two theoretical security vulnerabilities (nicknamed “Spectre” and “Meltdown”) that rocked the entire chip-making industry in 2018.
Represented commonly-owned people-search sites, Truthfinder and Instant Checkmate, together with various affiliated companies, in an FTC investigation which focused on the alleged failure to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in connection with the sale of public record background reports and for certain alleged violations of Section 5 of the FTC Act.
Advised Thomson Reuters in its US$650 million acquisition of Casetext, Inc., a legal startup whose primary offering is CoCounsel, an artificial intelligence-powered assistant for legal professionals which is powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model.

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