As chair of Squire Patton Boggs’ Data Privacy, Cybersecurity and Digital Assets Practice, Alan Friel leads a global team of professionals who keep the firm’s clients ahead of the curve with cutting-edge transactional, regulatory, policy, cybersecurity and contentious capabilities in dynamically evolving data and digital markets. Having served as general counsel for several years in the 1990s, Friel has the expertise to advise clients on making practical and informed business decisions. With more than three decades of relevant experience to address the intersection of law and technology, Friel is a thought leader in digital media, intellectual property, data privacy and protection, and consumer protection law. Friel remains at the forefront of emerging media and tech, advising publishers and other online services, advertisers, ad tech companies, marketing services providers, data brokers, e-commerce merchants, software and SaaS/PaaS providers and other data controllers and processors of all sorts, on related legal issues.
