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Janine Regan and Victor Mound Charles Russell Speechlys
Charles Russell Speechlys is an international law firm with a focus on private capital and the intersection of personal, family and business. Major corporates benefit from its personalised approach, and the firm embeds itself in clients’ teams. It is headquartered in London, with of - fices across the UK, Europe, Asia and the Mid - dle East. The data protection team sits within the wider commercial department (a 19-strong team including four partners and two senior as - sociates). It comprises a core of commercial lawyers with data protection expertise, drawing
on data protection specialists from other de - partments and providing a rounded data pro - tection offering. Examples of the firm’s work include providing an innovation platform with a full data protection compliance review of its operations, and implementation of compliance requirements. This included drafting a full suite of data protection and privacy policies such as privacy notices, data retention, data classifica - tion, a data breach policy and a data subject rights policy.
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Janine Regan is an experienced data protection lawyer and leads Charles Russell Speechlys LLP’s data protection and privacy practice. She has particular expertise in advising clients in
Victor Mound is an associate with experience in data protection, intellectual property and information technology. He has advised across the technology, life sciences and
the life sciences, retail/consumer and technology sectors. Janine has experience in advising multinational corporations on a range of matters, including global data protection compliance projects, privacy impact and legitimate interests assessments, automated decision-making, data breaches, international data transfers, privacy notices, marketing issues, data subject rights requests, and data-processing and data-sharing agreements. She is also knowledgeable in emerging areas of law and policy that overlap with data protection, such as AI, cyber-resilience, cybersecurity and digital ID.
entertainment sectors. Prior to joining the legal profession, Victor worked as a privacy analyst for a FTSE250 company, where he helped roll out processes, policies and training to foster GDPR compliance. Examples of Victor’s commercial and data privacy work include advising on data breach management responses (including notifying relevant regulators); advising on differential privacy techniques for datasets used to train generative AI models; and advising on data protection impact assessments for know-your- customer processes.
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