Camille Dorval is an associate in the Paris office of Latham & Watkins. She advises French and foreign companies from all industry sectors on complex commercial litigation, data protection, and various regulatory issues.

Ms. Dorval is member of the firm’s Data Privacy Committee and is involved in various pro bono matters.

Ms. Dorval's experience includes:

Complex Commercial Litigation

  • Representing a major helicopter operator in the oil and gas industry against a helicopter manufacturer in an action for hidden defects
  • Representing a French leading IT consulting firm in a lawsuit against one of its clients alleging a breach of a finance software integration contract
  • Representing a global hygiene and health company in follow-on damages claims brought by retailers following a cartel decision of the French Competition Authority
  • Representing an investment fund in a shareholders dispute
  • Representing a US provider of health technological services in a damages claim for sudden breach of commercial relationship
  • Advising a leading French recruitment group in connection with the initiation of an unfair competition action against listed competitors
  • Representing a leading French recruitment group against a competitor which had filed a discovery request
  • Representing a French insurance company in a criminal litigation for fraud against its former CIO
  • Representing a US medical device manufacturer to obtain the admission of its debt statement to the liabilities of a French company in judicial liquidation
  • Advising clients in cross-border alternative dispute resolution processes
  • Carrying out litigation audits in the context of M&A and private equity transactions

Data Protection

  • Advising US and Chinese online social networking services on day-to-day high stakes data protection, telecommunication, and consumer law issues, in particular in the context of the transposition of the European Electronic Communications Code into French law
  • Assisting a US online social networking service in the context of complex regulatory enforcement proceedings from EU data protection authorities (including the CNIL)
  • Advising a global spirits group in its GDPR compliance program at a European level
  • Advising a US real estate company on its post-COVID-19 return-to-work program in the EU (including conducting a data protection impact assessment on a EU scale)
  • Advising a US cosmetic retailer on the applicable consumer and data protection laws requirements for the implementation of its e-commerce website in France
  • Assisting clients with data breach notifications before the French and Belgian data protection authorities
  • Advising clients in anticipating any potential litigation (civil, regulatory, or criminal) stemming from a data breach
  • Advising collaborative platforms on GDPR and consumer law compliance
  • GDPR audit and compliance plan in the context of M&A and private equity transactions

Bar Qualification

  • Avocat (Paris)

Education

  • Graduate Degree Business Law, University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), 2016
  • MSc in Management, Grande Ecole, EM Lyon Business School, 2016
  • Graduate Law Degree, University of Lyon 2, 2015