Guillaume Couneson
Europe Guide 2024
Band 3 : TMT: Data Protection
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About
Provided by Guillaume Couneson
Practice Areas
Guillaume is a partner in the TMT/IP practice. His practice focuses on data protection, information technology and electronic communication-related matters.
Guillaume has extensive experience assisting both Belgian and international clients in the context of complex cross-border and cross-practice transactional and regulatory matters in sectors such as banking, healthcare, technology, logistics and energy, with a special focus on data protection compliance (including in-depth knowledge of the GDPR). He combines this with a wide-ranging expertise advising clients regarding technology contracts, including (IT) outsourcing, cloud computing and software-as-a-service related agreements. He also has experience with litigation in his area of expertise and has worked on numerous matters subject to data protection and telecommunication regulatory authorities.
He is also particularly active in the FinTech sector, assisting established businesses and new market entrants to harness the opportunities that the related technologies present, while helping them to manage challenges of disruption in highly regulated markets and the need for legal certainty.
Please visit the Linklaters website for more details of Guillaume Couneson and his work in this category: https://www.linklaters.com/en/find-a-lawyer/guillaume-couneson
Chambers Review
Europe
Guillaume Couneson advises a range of international financial institutions and corporates on the data protection elements of M&A activity and on data protection compliance.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Guillaume has good technical knowledge and is able to understand the business context. He reflects and provides relevant answers to questions."
"Guillaume is great in partnership acting as an extension of the in-house function. He is very structured and also manages expectations very well."
"He knows how the company of his client works and adapts to that environment."
"Guillaume has good technical knowledge and is able to understand the business context. He reflects and provides relevant answers to questions."
"Guillaume is great in partnership acting as an extension of the in-house function. He is very structured and also manages expectations very well."
"He knows how the company of his client works and adapts to that environment."