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Paul Greaves

Paul Greaves

Dual-qualified in England and Wales and Belgium, Paul Greaves leverages his substantial international experience to deliver ready-to-implement solutions to his clients’ data and technology-related challenges. Paul advises on all aspects of privacy, cyber, and data law across a diverse range of clients - from global technology firms to life sciences startups expanding into Europe. His extensive experience includes advising on EU and UK GDPR compliance projects, cross-border data transfers, and personal data breaches. Paul also regularly advises multinational companies on EU digital strategy laws including the EU AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act, Digital Services Act, and Data Act. Paul also has experience working as an in-house privacy lawyer in a highly regulated sector and studied law in Paris.
David Keating

David Keating

Clients trust David Keating to provide practical counsel for even the most complex technology and data issues. As the leader of the Technology & Privacy Group and co-leader of the Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team, David has more than 20 years of experience representing clients that stretch from emerging technology companies to Big Data and internationally to the EU. He assists clients with compliance strategies, policy development and implementation, data monetization and data use analyses, new product development, privacy and security issues in transactions, and privacy enforcement matters. Particular areas of focus include emerging technologies, generative AI, California Consumer Privacy Act compliance, European Union data protection, and children’s privacy. David’s technology practice is focused on high-technology companies and strategic technology and outsourcing initiatives at public and private corporations across industries. His technology experience includes strategic sourcing and procurement initiatives, including information technology and business process outsourcing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and complex software, cloud computing, systems integration, and other technology transactions.
Jens-Olrik Murach

Jens-Olrik Murach

As a distinguished antitrust lawyer with more than two decades of dedicated practice in Brussels and Germany, Jens has earned a reputation for providing pragmatic and invaluable legal counsel to his clients worldwide. His practice covers the complete range of EU and German antitrust matters across a wide spectrum of industry sectors. Jens also has significant experience handling foreign direct investment screening and EU foreign subsidies matters. Jens has advised on many complex and high-stakes merger control matters, both before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office. His broad experience includes significant transatlantic deals, and he also has strong experience in managing global merger control investigations in virtually every part of the world. Jens has represented multiple companies in cartel and monopolization investigations, including handling leniency applications, settlement negotiations, and appeals. He also has significant experience advising on vertical distribution matters and represents clients in commercial and administrative antitrust litigation.
Wim Nauwelaerts

Wim Nauwelaerts

Wim Nauwelaerts provides critical privacy, cybersecurity, and data protection support for multinational organizations to ensure their valuable data assets are used appropriately and safeguarded from risk. Wim is the partner-in-charge of Alston & Bird’s Brussels office, leading the firm’s European Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team. A true veteran in his field, Wim has been advising multinational companies on privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity matters for almost 25 years. His practice spans a variety of industries, with a particular emphasis on life sciences, media, and new technologies (including AI). Wim has developed internationally recognized experience in assisting clients with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance projects, including implementing cross-border data transfer strategies negotiating GDPR-related contract terms. In his cyber practice, clients who have suffered a cyber breach usually bring Wim in at an early stage to help assess their legal obligations and develop a strategy on notifications to regulators and affected individuals. Wim has written and spoken widely on privacy and cyber-related topics, such as data transfers out of Europe, cross-border breach notifications, and GDPR enforcement.
Kimberly Peretti

Kimberly Peretti

A former DOJ cybercrime prosecutor and former director of PwC’s cyber forensics group, Kim delivers top-of-the-line cyber-risk management and cybersecurity counsel to her clients. She led benchmark cybercrime cases as a former senior litigator for the DOJ’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. Kim’s background as a 25+ year information-security professional enhances her practice in managing technical cyber investigations, assisting clients with data-security-related regulatory inquiries, and advising boards and senior executives in cybersecurity and risk matters. She services clients in matters of privacy, national security process and requests, and payment systems compliance and risk mitigation.