David McIlwaine

David heads Pinsent Masons’ international cyber practice. He is by pedigree a litigator and has over 25 years’ experience of advising clients in relation to contentious technology and data issues. He assists clients with all stages of the cyber life-cycle, including cyber readiness, incident response, regulatory investigation and challenge, and subsequent litigation. David has advised on a multitude of cross-border cyber incidents. David assists clients through the process of identification, containment, notification to the appropriate regulator (including the ICO), evaluation and response. David completed a secondment to the legal department of the National Cyber Security Centre (part of the UK’s intelligence service), where he advised on regulatory issues, including in relation to the implementation of the Networks and Information Systems Regulations (NIS), which affects organisations that provide critical national infrastructure.