Baker McKenzie assembles a robust data privacy, data security, and information management offering capable of handling instructions from an array of national and multinational clients from the tech, retail, and healthcare sectors, to name a few. The team covers a myriad of data privacy and data protection issues, including cybersecurity requirements, regulatory compliance, and cross-border data transfers. The group is led by José María Méndez, who specialises in advising clients from the media and tech industry. Patricia Pérez is sought out for her experience in privacy compliance, drafting and negotiating licences, and proceedings before regulatory authorities, while Pablo Uslé is noted for his prowess advising clients from the TMT, financial services, and retail sectors.
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Patricia Perez joined the Information Technology & Communications Department of Baker & McKenzie in Madrid in 2013.
Her prior experience includes working at national law firms in the Corporate and Intellectual Property and Information Technology departments.
Patricia provides legal advice on a wide range of issues to international and national clients, including advising on data protection, privacy, consumer protection and telecommunications' issues, drafting and negotiating license and outsourcing agreements and assisting in proceedings before the regulatory authorities.
Patricia has experience, among others, in data protection and privacy in: alignment projects, including to the GDPR; data protection audits and provision of training to employees on data protection compliance; day-to-day assistance with special focus on international data protection matters and assistance to the DPO; assistance in the management of personal data breaches involving multiple jurisdictions and notification filings before the Spanish Data Protection Authority; and assistance in the enforcement actions and management of the sanctioning proceedings.
Languages
English, French, Spanish
Memberships
- Madrid Bar Association - Member
Education
- Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE), Madrid (Master's Degree in Intellectual Property Law) (2013)
- Valencia University (Degree in Law and Political Sciences) (2012)
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