Ms Karen Neuman > Dechert LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
Dechert LLP Offices
1900 K STREET, NW
WASHINGTON DC 20006
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Ms Karen Neuman
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Partner
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Karen Neuman is a partner and co-chair of Dechert’s global privacy & cybersecurity practice. She is an internationally recognized, sought after privacy lawyer and thought leader. Recommended by The Legal 500, she was the former Chief Privacy Officer with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the Obama Administration, where she was part of the DHS senior leadership team and principal privacy advisor to the DHS Secretary. Ms. Neuman provides sophisticated, solution-oriented advice to global organizations, including new entrants and well-established companies, boards and management in a wide range of sectors on cutting edge issues involving data-driven products, tools and services.
Ms. Neuman focuses on counseling clients on commercial privacy matters, including the collection, use, processing and protection of consumer and employee data. She has deep experience advising clients on sector-specific privacy laws and regulations, including federal and state privacy and cyber security laws and frameworks, as well as industry self-regulatory codes. Ms. Neuman also has extensive experience advising clients on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), cross-border data transfer mechanisms, and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). In addition, she works closely with clients to craft internal data handling and incident response policies, conduct privacy and cyber security impact and legal risk assessments and lead sessions for corporate boards on privacy and cybersecurity risk, crisis management and cyber incidents. Ms. Neuman also conducts privacy due diligence in connection with mergers and acquisitions, financings and commercial transactions.
Ms. Neuman is uniquely positioned to help clients navigate their most complex privacy and cybersecurity matters. In her former role at DHS, she oversaw, implemented and enforced the department’s privacy and data security program and provided advice to other senior leaders at DHS and other agencies concerning relevant statutes, rules, presidential orders, policies and best practices. Appointed to President Obama’s Federal Privacy Council, Ms. Neuman spearheaded the integration of innovative privacy protections into various DHS programs and oversaw how those protections were operationalized. Notably, she worked on the department’s big data analytics program and White House initiatives for cybersecurity information sharing with commercial entities. She was also a member of the U.S. delegation that negotiated the EU – U.S. Umbrella Data Privacy Protection Agreement with the European Commission and was one of the senior officials that supported the U.S. team that negotiated the EU – U.S. Privacy Shield.
Memberships
- International Association of Privacy Professionals
- American Bar Association
Education
- University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A., 1978
- Antioch School of Law, J.D., 1984
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Fintech
Dechert LLP has made good headway into the market with a combination of expertise in cryptocurrencies and digital assets, and traditional finance products. The firm has developed a good niche in related investment fund work, with clients such as Franklin Templeton instructing the team to assist with the launch of its tokenized money market fund. Lead partners include Timothy Spangler in Los Angeles, who works at the crossover between fintech and alternative investment management. Respectively based in San Francisco and Washington DC, Mark Perlow and Susan Grafton are highly experienced in regulatory matters, while Karen Neuman (Washington DC) and Brenda Sharton (Boston) are lead contacts for data privacy and cybersecurity. The firm also recruited New York partner Jay Southgate from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, who has a strong focus on consumer lending and fintech.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate finance
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation