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Vinod Bange

Partner
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Biography

Vin is well regarded and considered to be a ‘long-standing recognised leader in data privacy and regulatory matters stemming pre-GDPR to present day, arguably making him the go-to person’. Vin leads our London Data Privacy practice and is also a member of our Global Privacy & Security Leadership team bringing his vast experience in this specialist area for over 22 years, advising clients from various data-rich sectors including retail, financial services/fin-tech, life sciences, healthcare, proptech and technology platforms.

Practice Focus

Vin supports clients on all aspects of data protection advisory, compliance and risk management. He will guide you from a strategic and governance perspective, as well as provide advice on audit/assessment and implementation projects, cross-border data flows and solutions, enterprise security and data breach counselling and incident response. Vin is a highly technical advisor who can guide you through the compliant implementation of cutting-edge technologies and data transactional processing models. He also works with clients to develop data protection solutions for third-party collaborations, and very frequently acts as regulatory liaison for UK, EU and global projects.

Representative Legal Matters

Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Vinod has advised with the following representative legal matters:

  • Advising Vinted, Europe's largest online international C2C marketplace dedicated to second-hand fashion, on its EUR 128 million Series E round financing which values the company at over EUR 1 billion. The round was led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from existing backers including Sprints Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Accel and Burda Principal Investments.
  • Advising Just Eat on its global data protection law compliance project, including multiple challenging jurisdictions such as French and Spanish data protection law.

Professional Honors

  • Legal500 UK Leading Individual Data Protection and Information Law Band 2 2022
  • Chambers UK Leading Individual Data Protection and Information Law Band 4 2019
  • Chambers UK Leading Individual Data Protection and Information Law Band 4 2018

Admissions

  • England & Wales~United Kingdom (1999)

Education

  • University of Birmingham (LLB, Law) (1995)

Languages

  • English
  • Punjabi