Information Law

Policymakers want to harness the value of your data for wider economic and public benefit, your competitors or challengers want it for their purposes, and regulators understand its power to their investigations and enforcement. Against this complex, developing backdrop it is increasingly likely your organization will face these challenges.

Our team has deep experience in helping you successfully navigate these issues, helping you understand where you are directly subject to legal access to information regimes, with public access regimes in particular, spreading into the private sector. We frequently support clients dealing with those, and other access requests for information (whether made directly or via third parties).

Our clients rely on us to help them deal with unjustified or excessive requests and claims (including on a class action basis), and to strike the right balance with transparency, public interest, privacy and confidentiality and proprietary rights. Maintaining control of data, its planned disclosure and further exploitation, is increasingly essential to many clients, and key to returns on investment and reputation management.

If you have valuable or sensitive information assets, you need to protect, or if you want to find a safe way of being more open with your information, such as ESG, for example, we can help you develop and implement an appropriate strategy to do so. Working seamlessly, our colleagues can also advise you on complying with regulations to prevent the misuse of data and, should you need it, provide you with counsel following a breach.

Information is a global commodity and information law issues are likely to arise in many jurisdictions, making data localization and local surveillance laws a particular challenge but one we can help you navigate. As a global firm we can help you access a team with deep, knowledge in this area and individuals with specific local knowledge, including in US surveillance laws.