Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Digital Assets - Associate (2-3 PQE)

Our Data Privacy, Cybersecurity & Digital Assets team is recognised as one of the few "Elite" global practices focusing on transactional, regulatory, policy, disputes and other work for data businesses, and across all aspects of data.

You will frequently work alongside colleagues based in the UK and throughout the EU, the US and the Asia Pacific region on global counselling projects and deals involving data protection and e-privacy, artificial intelligence, digital business, the commercial exploitation of data, and complex cybersecurity incidents.

Our Opportunity

You will provide guidance and detailed advice on commercial transactions and client projects, work on discrete privacy matters for domestic and global clients, and support on M&A and corporate finance transactions. A key component of the work is to identify and advise on areas of regulatory and commercial risk, while enabling clients to innovate, capitalise on commercial opportunities and unlock the full value of data and digital technologies while ensuring privacy by design and by default.

The role will require effective data regulatory and contractual analysis and drafting skills, proven experience of advising on applicable data and other regulatory frameworks, and familiarity with drafting privacy-related documentation.

Our client base is truly varied and offers the widest range of complex and challenging work. Clients include global manufacturing and specialty materials companies, luxury automotive manufacturers, aviation businesses, leading media and entertainment businesses, health care majors and healthtech innovators, web services businesses, and pioneers operating across digital business and artificial intelligence.

Our global team is expanding - this is an exciting time to join Squire Patton Boggs with the opportunity to get involved in a varied workload with plenty of scope for direct client contact, and genuine opportunities for progression., We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is representative of our diverse society. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.

Are you looking to work in collaborative, high-performing team that offers front-line, meaningful responsibility advising the firm's global client-base in relation to innovative technologies, digital assets and services, and data-driven projects? If so, we are seeking a qualified lawyer (ideally 2-3 PQE) with sound knowledge of data protection & privacy law and practice to join our team., Coordination with international colleagues and outside counsel will be a key part of the role. You will therefore join with a commercial attitude along with a confident and proactive approach, good people skills, the ability to work as a team player and evidence of ability to network.

You should expect excellent quality of work in a culture which encourages leadership and involvement with the business and its clients.

You

We are looking for a UK-qualified lawyer, ideally with 2-3 years' post-qualification experience in tech transactions, data privacy and digital projects in a law firm environment. You must demonstrate excellent technical skills alongside strong verbal and written communication abilities, coupled with the ability to provide pragmatic and business-focused advice to clients, to enable them to balance commercial and compliance risks and opportunities.

You will be a self-starter with the ability to prioritise workload with competing demands, display good judgment and work well under pressure. You will have the ability to independently manage meaningful segments of large/complex matters, and to assist in managing projects to completion. Any advanced legal qualifications in data protection and privacy, such as EIPA, IAPP, etc would be desirable.

Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions by combining our legal, lobbying and political capabilities and invaluable connections on the ground to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and sovereign nations.

More than 1,500 lawyers operating in 46 offices across four continents provide unrivalled access to expertise. In the UK, we have offices in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, and London.

The firm is committed to promoting an inclusive and supportive working environment. Embedded by local champions in each of our UK offices, our well-regarded family and carer, wellbeing and DEI programmes provide a variety of flexible working options to support individuals' life journeys, helping our people pursue their personal and professional goals.