James Lloyd advises clients on cybersecurity, data privacy, AI, and digital regulatory risk, focusing on complex technologies, products, and platforms that attract regulatory scrutiny, enforcement risk, or crisis response.​

His practice spans the regimes regulating the digital world, including cybersecurity and information security, data protection and privacy, AI, online platforms and content regulation, and related technology legislation. He supports clients on litigation-grade advisory work, regulatory engagement and investigations, incident response, enforcement action, and disputes.​

James brings a disputes and enforcement mindset to advisory matters, helping clients build defensible positions around high-risk technologies and incidents that are designed to withstand regulator, board, insurer, and litigation scrutiny. He is valued for calm, strategic advice in complex or fast-moving situations and for translating novel regulatory issues into practical decisions.​

He is a member of the firm’s Security Committee.​

James engages across jurisdictions with data protection, cyber, and digital regulators, including:​

  • The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)​
  • Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC)​
  • France’s Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL)​
  • Italy’s Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Garante)​
  • Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC)​

His recent Latham experience includes advising:​

  • A global technology company in investigations by EU CSIRTs and national data protection authorities following a major cybersecurity incident​
  • A multinational pharmaceutical group on Singapore PDPC engagement following a vishing-related cloud-systems incident, including regulator responses on impacted individuals and data types​
  • A global payments company on a 14-jurisdiction cyber-risk assessment for cyber-intelligence and collection activities, including risk matrix, mitigation strategy, and governance advice​
  • A major stock exchange on a greenfield cyber and breach response playbook prepared with a leading forensic provider​
  • A large international organization on cyber incident support covering live breach response, ransomware readiness, insurer, forensic, and communications coordination, regulatory notifications, and post-breach governance​
  • Global technology clients on digital regulatory affairs, privacy, AI, online platform, and user-data issues, including global regulatory engagement strategy​
  • Companies facing ransomware and extortion-based incidents, coordinating legal, technical, regulatory, and communications responses across jurisdictions​
  • Clients on regulatory investigations, enforcement action, and disputes arising from data breaches and cyber incidents​

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)

Education

  • LPC, The University of Law
    with distinction
  • LLB (Hons), The University of Law
  • BS (Hons), University of Sheffield