Safe across the world & expert local guides & knowing where you stand & maps not mazes & untangling the red tape & always on hand & opportunities not problems & that’s Privacy & Data Protection with Bird & Bird

Our top-ranked International Privacy & Data Protection Group advises organisations worldwide on matters as diverse as GDPR and other privacy compliance, data breaches, data transfer challenges and use of cookies and online tracking.

Backed by the long-standing expertise of leading data protection specialists, we can help you deliver on your global strategies and objectives while navigating the myriad local differences which complicate the data protection arena. 

Providing accurate, clear, pragmatic, business-focused legal advice, we do more than advise on the letter of the law. Drawing on many years’ experience of the ways in which organisations approach data protection compliance, we  make practical suggestions that can add real value to your business.

If you'd like to know more about how we can help you, please get in touch with Heads of Group: Ruth Boardman in London and Ariane Mole in Paris.

Contacts

Ruth Boardman

Partner  |  UK

Ariane Mole

Partner  |  France

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Accolades

  • Their data protection work is impeccable.

    Chambers UK 2017


  • "The team is very agile and able. I know that I will be guaranteed quality work from the team."

    Chambers UK 2017

  • "The firm provides an excellent service. It offers genuine expertise and knowledge as well as a superb range of offices across the EU and elsewhere, which means we often only need to deal with one firm for a multi-jurisdictional project."

    Chambers Global 2016 / Chambers Europe 2016

  • "The lawyers are very knowledgeable on the legal side, but also very practical in their approach."

    Chambers Global 2016

  • “Renowned data protection specialists with especially strong expertise in the communications, technology, pharmaceutical and financial services industries. Relied on for advice in relation to cutting-edge issues such as the upcoming implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the invalidation of the Safe Harbour provisions. "Their data protection work is impeccable." and "The team is very agile and able. I know that I will be guaranteed quality work from the team."

    Chambers UK 2017

  • Bird & Bird LLP’s ‘very strong team of genuine experts’ is headed by the ‘very pragmatic and user-friendly’ Ruth Boardman, and was strengthened by the arrival of James Mullock, who joined from Osborne Clarke in October 2015.

    Legal 500 UK 2016

  • "Bird & Bird’s clients values the team’s ‘pronounced expertise’ in cross-border matters. It advised two well-known companies on cloud computing matters and also regularly acts for industry-leading players such as Lexmark and Western Digital. Henriette Picot provides ‘an extremely high level of legal and negotiation skills’ and acts in a ‘strategic, clear, transparent, systematic and fair’ manner. Fabian Niemann is also highly recommended. Fabian Niemann heads the ‘highly professional’ practice.”

    Legal 500 EMEA 2016

  • "Sources say: The data lawyers we deal with are very knowledgeable at the individual country and regional levels."

    Chambers Global 2013

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