Practice Expertise
- Data protection
- Technology
Areas of Practice
- Data protection
- Technology
- Artificial intelligence
- Commercial
- Compliance and risk
- Connected services
- Consumer duty
- Dispute resolution and litigation
- Focus
- In-house legal services
- Intellectual property
- International
- Privacy and data View More
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Corporate & Business
Technology
Financial Services
Government & Public Sector
Intellectual Property
Retail & Distribution
Telecommunications
Crossborder Trade & Investment
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WSG Leadership
- Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group - Member
Profile
Nick is an international data privacy lawyer with over 30 years’ experience, specialising in supporting multinationals on global privacy, data and AI compliance programs. Formerly an in-house counsel for a US multinational, Nick helps companies on a wide range of global privacy, data and AI projects and transactions involving BCR’s (EU and UK), cybersecurity incidents, data regulatory support, audits, DSAR’s, privacy commercial transactions, AI programs and is the external global DPO for several multinational clients. More specifically Nick has worked on many large-scale data breach incidents across the world for many multinationals and liaises with regulators as part of those projects.
Nick frequently speaks at ACC conferences in both Europe and the US, IAPP conferences and webinars as well as hosts various webinars on the Shoosmiths platform.
More specifically:
- Supporting a US recruitment provider on a multi-jurisdictional data incident involving regulatory filings in 15 countries
- Supporting an Indian IT company on a large data security breach in 10 countries
- Supporting several US multinationals on their global privacy programs as global DPO
- Supporting multiple US multinationals on their BCR applications
- Supporting a large US multinational on its CAC application in China
- Supporting many companies on smaller scale data incidents involving regulatory filings in a few EMEA countries
- Supporting many US multinationals on the EU SCC’s and TRA requirements and negotiations with vendors
- Supporting multiple corporates on their data regulatory requirements under NIS2, DORA and CRA
- Achieved first post GDPR Controller and Processor BCR for RGA, Inc
- Advising on AI literacy requirements and AI training and governance for clients
Education
BA Literae Humaniores - Pembroke College, Oxford University
CPE - College of Law
LSF - College of Law
Areas of Practice
- Data protection
- Technology
- Artificial intelligence
- Commercial
- Compliance and risk
- Connected services
- Consumer duty
- Dispute resolution and litigation
- Focus
- In-house legal services
- Intellectual property
- International
- Privacy and data
Articles
Moving from Brexit 1.0 to Brexit 2.0
By Nick Holland |November 2020
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