Adam Solomon > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Adam Solomon

212-309-1327 asolomon@HuntonAK.com

Work Department

Global Technology, Outsourcing & Privacy

Position

Partner

Career

Adam regularly counsels clients from various sectors on a wide range of legal issues associated with cybersecurity risk management and data protection. He also assists clients with managing their compliance with global privacy laws and negotiating complex commercial contracts related to privacy, data monetization and information security issues.

Adam advises clients on managing cybersecurity and data protection risks and compliance issues across various industries, including in the energy, manufacturing, utilities, technology, financial, healthcare and retail sectors. Adam has extensive experience helping clients with responding to high-profile global cybersecurity incidents, including serving as a lead attorney on cyber attacks against US critical infrastructure, large-scale data breaches, ransomware and cyber extortion events, supply chain attacks, and many others. His cybersecurity practice includes both counseling clients in responding to security incidents and helping them with enhancing their cybersecurity risk management and governance controls.

Adam also helps clients with building global privacy programs and regularly counsels on compliance with various privacy, electronic surveillance and computer trespass laws. In addition, he routinely negotiates a wide range of technology and data licensing agreements, and assists clients in conducting diligence and negotiating privacy and data security aspects of corporate transactions.

Education

• JD, University of Chicago Law School, 2013
• MS, Computer Science, University of Chicago, 2013
• BA, New York University, magna cum laude, 2008