Cyber and Technology Disputes Associate and Senior

5 months ago


London, United Kingdom Pinsent Masons Full time

**Cyber and Technology Disputes Associate 2-4 yrs PQE**

**Cyber and Technology Disputes Senior Associate 7 yrs PQE**

**Location: London**

**Brief**

We are seeking to recruit two specialist cyber and technology disputes lawyers, one Associate and one Senior Associate, each with experience of cyber insurance, and with 2-4 years PQE and 7 years PQE plus respectively, to join our market leading international Cyber and TMT Disputes practice.

**TMT & Cyber Background**

Pinsent Masons LLP has one of the leading and most established cyber teams in the UK. The team sits within its wider Technology, Media & Telecoms practice which is highly regarded globally with a team of over 30 partners and over 100 additional fee-earners, across a network of offices nationwide and internationally.

The team focuses on cyber, contractual technology disputes and data privacy litigation and has acted on some of the most significant litigation in this area to date. For example, the team acted for Google in the landmark Supreme Court decision in _Lloyd v Google _. This is widely regarded as the most significant data protection case in this jurisdiction to date.

Our cyber practice supports clients to manage a full range of cyber matters including: pre-breach services such as cyber simulations; full incident response management; regulatory investigations; and litigation arising out of cyber incidents. Our team is consistently praised by both the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners for its strengths in this area, with the team having been involved in some of the most significant cases to affect this area in recent years.

Our contractual technology disputes practice has handled some of the most complex technology disputes in this jurisdiction, including what is believed to be the highest value technology arbitration to have proceeded to a final arbitration hearing. The practice handles disputes relating to IT implementation projects, software licensing, outsourcing agreements and general commercial issues within the IT industry.

**Key responsibilities will include**:

- **Pre-breach**:development and delivery of pre-breach services to clients including cyber simulations, incident response planning programmes, cyber training and other cyber advisory work.
- **Regulatory**:managing regulatory investigations including: notifying regulators (e.g. ICO and FCA); dealing with regulatory enforcement action; and appealing enforcement decisions.
- **Cyber/privacy Litigation**:dealing with litigation connected to cyber matters including: pursuing claims and recoveries against suppliers; dealing with B2B and B2C claims; defending group litigation and representative actions initiated following incidents; and managing other disputes arising out of security incidents.
- **Technology Litigation**:dealing with technically complex IT issues, including IT implementation, software licensing, outsourcing agreements etc. Supporting clients in pre-litigation matters, distressed re-negotiation, ADR, and litigation/arbitration.
- **Business development**:assisting with business development activities, internally within the firm and externally in the market, in order to win new clients and to win cyber work from existing clients - this will include identifying and developing relationships with cyber insurers, attending and speaking at conferences and writing articles, as well as cementing existing relationships.
- Experience of cyber insurance is essential for this role.

**Knowledge, skills and experience required**:

- Previous hands-on experience of advising on cyber matters, including in the cyber insurance market, is a key requirement.
- Experience of technically complex litigation preferred.
- A strong commitment to and enjoyment of business development is very important.
- An awareness of and good understanding of recent and upcoming regulatory changes in the data protection sphere is expected.

**About the Firm**

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.

The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.

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