Romain Perray
Europe Guide 2024
Band 3 : TMT: Data Protection
Band 3
About
Provided by Romain Perray
Practice Areas
Romain has extensive experience in data privacy and data protection law, and lectures on these subjects in Master of Law classes at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Paris-II Panthéon-Assas and the University of Paris V Cité.
He advises on the full range of data protection and data security for clients in life sciences, automotive, ad techs, insurance, e-commerce, leisure, social networks and even the public sector, especially in the context of smart cities projects. Romain is the EU head of the Firm’s Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice Group.
His experience extends to cross-border transfers of data (including global intragroup data transfers framework agreements), joint data controllers and/or data processor agreements, the formulation of privacy and/or cookies policies, and the use of personal data for marketing purposes, including through profiling techniques, notably in a Big Data context.
Romain has also conducted numerous privacy impact assessments (notably in case of pseudonymization or anonymization) as well international data protection audits in order to ensure compliance with both EU and domestic data protection requirements, more specifically those resulting from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). He assists clients on data breaches and on data subjects’ rights issues.
Romain is also a regular contributor to leading legal publications such as LexisNexis and Lamy Editions for which he is the author of two significant manuals on, respectively, data protection and video monitoring issues.
Chambers Review
Europe
Romain Perray of McDermott Will & Emery joins the rankings this year on the back of positive feedback. He assists multinational clients with GDPR compliance, as well as other regulatory advice.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"It is a pleasure to work with Romain thanks to his expertise in data protection."
"Romain is an absolute expert, and he grasps what the client exactly wants and suggests clever solutions. He is very available and pragmatic."
"His advice was pertinent, straight to the point and tailored to us very well."
"It is a pleasure to work with Romain thanks to his expertise in data protection."
"Romain is an absolute expert, and he grasps what the client exactly wants and suggests clever solutions. He is very available and pragmatic."
"His advice was pertinent, straight to the point and tailored to us very well."