As a barrister with unique knowledge of cyber security and cyber insurance legal issues, combined with his practical experience and advisory insight, Celso has extensive experience acting for both major national and international corporations as well as brokers, insurers and reinsurers.
Celso has in-depth expertise acting in contentious as well as advisory and regulatory work in the following areas:
- Commercial, legal and regulatory aspects of data breaches and ICO investigations.
- Court actions seeking and responding to interlocutory injunctions in cyber law cases involving data privacy claims, connected liability and insurance issues, fraudulent transfer of funds, social engineering scams, data exfiltration, software misuse, defective security software, and cyber insurance coverage disputes.
- Cyber extortion, cyber fraud, phishing scams, ransomware, malware, email impersonation, cyber blackmail and the dark web, cryptocurrency theft and fraud, malicious social media campaigns, identity theft and impersonation, illegal cloning, and counterfeit software disputes.
- Anti-money laundering and sanctions regulatory issues relating to cryptocurrency, cyber threats, and ransomware payments.
- Review and drafting of cyber, liability, D&O and financial lines insurance policies as well as cyber risks exclusions in international re/insurance programmes.
- Financial, data and asset recoveries, cryptocurrency tracing and proprietary injunctions.
- Response and investigation of data breach incidents as well as determination of external and internal powers of investigation in conjunction with remedial steps to mitigate losses.
- Data restoration, software reinstallation, cyber business interruption and loss of profits, credit monitoring and public relations.
- Recovery and defensive actions relating to hacking and commercial theft of intellectual property.
- Compliance and requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation including its extra-territorial application to non-EU parties.
- Data protection breaches in international investigations and disputes.