Daniel P. Cooper

Daniel Cooper is of counsel in the firm's London office whose practice area involves advising on European privacy and data protection matters, as well as contentious and non-contentious intellectual property work and e-commerce issues.  Mr. Cooper heads up the firm's London privacy and security practice, and advises clients on compliance with UK and European data protection and privacy legislation, including the UK Data Protection Act, Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, Human Rights Act, and related EU directives, such as the EU Data Protection Directive and EU Electronic Communications Data Protection Directive.  He also has been involved in advising clients with respect to Internet-related liabilities under European laws and e-commerce-related matters, including European and UK legislation regulating distance sales, data retention, and e-commerce generally.  In the latest edition, Chambers Global have noted Mr. Cooper as a leading member of Covington's practice, which is recommended for privacy and data security work.

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.

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.

• "The Concept of Personal Data in the European Union," Covington E-Alert (7/16/2007), Co-Author
• "Corporate Whistleblowing Hotlines and EU Data Protection Laws," PLC (July 2007), Author
• "Corporate Investigations and EU Data Privacy Laws," 5th Annual Data Protection Compliance Conference and Workshop Series - London (September 2006)