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Osborne Clarke LLP

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The data protection and cybersecurity team at Osborne Clarke LLP ‘brings a lot of practical and pragmatic experience to the table’, with expertise ranging from provision of strategic regulatory advice, to assistance with issues concerning developing technologies, such as AI. Mark Taylor provides a ‘calm, pragmatic and insightful’ hand at the tiller. On the contentious side, Charlie Wedin and Ashley Hurst are the key senior contacts. Recently-promoted partner Georgina Graham ‘gets straight to the heart of an issue and knows how to offer a solution’.
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Testimonials

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  • 'The team is very diverse and brings a lot of practical and pragmatic experience to the table. Very approachable, no legal jargon and just lovely to work with.'
  • 'Georgina Graham is a breath of fresh air in the legal field. She gets straight to the heart of an issue and knows how to offer a solution.'
  • 'Mark Taylor is a wonderful lawyer. He is the person I want on the end of the phone when I have a tricky data protection problem. He considers everything in the round and is fully attuned to the need to find pragmatic and scaleable solutions.'
  • 'The OC team is practical, approachable, commercial and great value for money. They take the time to really understand their clients, focus on what really matters for them and delivers consistent and well-rounded advice every time.'
  • 'Georgina Graham is very passionate about everything she does, providing an optimistic, commercial and well-rounded set of advice, tailored to our risk tolerance and business drivers. She is diligent, clear and genuinely cares about achieving a great outcome for all concerned. I would highly recommend her.'
  • 'The team are responsive, intelligent, knowledgeable on all areas of data protection and privacy and advise clearly on complex issues.'
  • 'Ben Dunham has exceptional knowledge in this field and is able to advise clearly on very complex issues.'
  • 'Mark Taylor clearly has a strong background in data protection law and he pulls on his experience to provide quick practical advice that reflects the sector he advises on. He is calm, pragmatic and insightful.'

Key clients

  • Dynamo FL
  • Ericsson
  • InfraRed Capital
  • Jollyes
  • M&G
  • Oxford Biomedica
  • Police Federation of England & Wales
  • Volta
  • X.ai

Work highlights

Representing the Police Federation of England & Wales in litigation relating to a ransomware attack which affected its IT systems in March 2019.
Assisting Ericsson with its application for the new UK Binding Corporate Rules Addendum.
Assisted DynamoFL in the UK, EU and China with the assessment of its vertical federated machine learning solution for data protection compliance to facilitate the licensing of this system to its end user customers.

Lawyers

Practice head

Mark Taylor

Other key lawyers

Charlie Wedin; Ben Dunham; Jonathan McDonald; Georgina Graham; Ashley Hurst

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