Ryan Grant

With a strong background in technology, Ryan's main practice areas are cybersecurity, data protection, and general commercial disputes in the context of complex technology – including class actions both plaintiff and defendant side.

Ryan is currently acting for the applicants in the Medibank cybersecurity/privacy class action and defence side in the quick service rest breaks class action.

He also assists clients in relation to the document production and litigation aspects of tax controversy work and in relation to negligent tax advice.

In 2019, Ryan completed a secondment with Optus for 10 months performing the role of Deputy General Counsel - Litigation. This role was a broad advisory role supporting all Optus business units in the areas of dispute resolution, risk, compliance, and general commercial matters.

• Acting for the applicants in the Medibank cybersecurity and privacy class action, one of Australia's most significant data breach proceedings.
• Acted for a client in court proceedings the subject of a business email compromise and mis-directed funds attack.
• Acting for several regulated entities in relation to civil penalty proceedings arising out of cybersecurity incidents.
• Acts for a number of large multi-national outsourcing companies in relation to disputes with customers, usually in relation to scope creep, failure to implement or outages/system performance issues. Acts for the customer side of similar disputes. .
• Acted for a logistics consumer in relation to claims on indemnities for outages on the part of the supplier arising from a successful cybersecurity attack.
• Acted for a professional services firm in relation to claims by clients where client confidential information was the subject of a successful cyberattack.
• Acts for a customer of cyber security services in relation to a claim against the supplier of the cyber security services arising out of a successful unauthorized attack.