Vishnu Shankar has been promoted as a Partner at international law firm Proskauer Rose LLP in London.

Shankar provides strategic advice on complex multi-jurisdictional EU/UK data privacy and cybersecurity matters (including General Data Protection Regulation, cybersecurity, algorithms and Big Data); and US and UK technology and intellectual property transactions (including sports, AI and Blockchain). He also defends clients in litigation or regulatory enforcement in these areas.

He is a 2005 graduate of National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore and has a Bachelors in Civil Laws (BCL) from Oxford University. He also holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

Soon after graduating from NLSIU, Shankar worked as a law clerk-cum-researcher to Justice BN Srikrishna at the Supreme Court of India for about a year. After his LL.M, Shankar was with Covington and Burling LLP for close to seven years, after which he joined Mason Hayes & Curran for about a year in Dublin. Prior to joining Proskauer Technologies, Shankar worked for over four and a half years with Sidley Austin.

With over thirteen years of experience, Shankar represents clients in complex regulatory enforcement, governmental investigations and litigation matters involving data, cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), algorithms, and other innovative technologies.

He is qualified to practice in England & Wales and New York.

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