Covington & Burling LLP | Biographies

Daniel Cooper is a partner with Covington & Burling LLP, resident in the firm's London office. Mr. Cooper is qualified to practice both in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Mr. Cooper heads up the firm's growing privacy and data security practice in London, and counsels clients in the information technology, pharmaceutical research, sports and financial services industries, among others, on European and UK data protection, data retention and freedom of information laws, as well as associated information technology and e-commerce laws and regulations. Mr. Cooper also regularly counsels clients with respect to Internet-related liabilities under European and US laws. Mr. Cooper sits on the advisory boards of a number of privacy NGOs, privacy think tanks, and related bodies.

Representative Matters

Advising the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) with respect to its compliance with European data privacy laws in connection with its global administration and management of athlete doping procedures.
Advising Privacy International, the privacy-rights NGO, with respect to emerging EU and other privacy and data retention laws.
Advising Garlik, a UK-based provider of identity management and protection services, in connection with their compliance with European and UK regulations on security and data privacy.
Advising multiple European pharmaceutical research firms with respect to their European research endeavors and compliance with privacy and medicines regulations, including conducting audits of existing practices and developing remediation programs.
Assisted several large pharmaceutical companies with a variety of privacy issues relating to clinical trials, further use of data, and pharmacovigilence reporting.

More Representative Matters

Previous Experience

Pennsylvania Reapportionment Commission, Adjunct Advisor (1991)

Pro Bono

Advising consortium of privacy-rights organizations in connection with the human rights implications of EU laws on data retention and amassing information from electronic communications services providers.

Memberships and Affiliations

U.K. Law Society's ad hoc group on data protection, Member
Privacy International, Board of Trustees
CASRO, General Counsel and Privacy Officer's Forum
British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Data Protection Research and Policy Committee, Member
European Privacy Officers Network (EPON), Member
MI5, Advisor on data privacy issues

Publications and Speeches

Regularly address enforcement bodies, prosecutors and government bodies in Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, etc.) on intellectual property rights and their infringement.