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Senal Premarathna

Associate
About

Senal is a data protection and cybersecurity lawyer, advising on cyber response and privacy compliance matters.

Senal has experience working on international projects and has spent time on secondments at the Information Commissioner's Office (the UK data protection regulator) in the contentious (enforcement) and non-contentious (policy and advisory) teams, clients in the retail and aviation sector and DLA Piper's Intellectual Property & Technology team in the Dubai office.

Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

  • Coordinated multi-jurisdictional data protection advice for major insurance companies, UK government entities and global leisure industry clients.
  • Advised on cybersecurity and data privacy matters, with a focus on multi-jurisdictional data breach response and regulatory investigations across infrastructure and technology clients.
  • Advised on various corporate due diligence matters on a data protection perspective.
  • Assisted pension scheme providers, global payment providers, financial institutions, IT providers and various other clients on data privacy compliance programmes and audits.
Languages
  • English
Education
  • University of Law, Legal Practice Course and Masters in Law, Business and Management, Distinction, 2021
  • University of York, LLB, Hons, 2019