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Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
200 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10166
NEW YORK
United States
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Adam Solomon

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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 commercialization 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

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)

The ‘exceptional’ privacy and cybersecurity team at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is recommended for its ‘pragmatic and business focused advice’. Clients spanning the retail, consumer products, technology, financial services, energy and health care sectors seek out the team for its expertise in complex, large-scale cybersecurity incident response, along with in-depth knowledge of privacy law compliance requirements. Breach response expert Lisa J. Sotto heads the firm’s global practice; her ‘expertise and prominence are unmatched’. Aaron Simpson is praised by clients as the ‘epitome of a commercially-minded attorney’, with notable experience of UK and EU privacy regulations and a track record advising private equity clients. Children’s privacy issues are a particular strength of Phyllis Marcus, working out of Washington DC and offering extensive experience with the FTC children’s online privacy program. ‘Quite possibly the foremost expert in CCPA and CPRA in the United States’, associate Danielle Dobrusin is the go-to for emerging state privacy laws. Brittany Bacon regularly handles large-scale cybersecurity incidents, also an area of strength for Adam Solomon. Michael La Marca has a growing practice in AI, machine learning, and biometrics. All team members are based in New York unless otherwise stated.

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