Jonathan Kirsop
Partner, Head of Technology, Media, and Telecoms
Jonathan is a data protection and technology specialist with a particular focus on advising financial services clients. Jonathan's clients range from international banks to small asset managers and pension funds as well advising clients in other sectors, such as life sciences, leisure and travel.
Jonathan's experience
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Advised Masonite International Corporation, a global building products manufacturer, on the inclusion of its entire corporate group within a Data Processing Agreement, addressing compliance with GDPR and UK GDPR requirements regarding group entities and data processing obligations.
- United Kingdom; United States
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advised World Athletics international sports governing body on drafting and negotiating agreements for the assignment of a database, including general data protection compliance matters.
- United Kingdom
- Sport & Hospitality
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Advised a leading UK financial institution on the provision of dedicated support to assist with data subject access requests under data protection laws.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised a multinational corporate services provider on UK and European data protection matters, including marketing, data transfers, data subject rights, breach issues and GDPR compliance.
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
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Advised a leading technology services provider on data protection compliance regarding international data transfers to sub processors outside the EU and UK, addressing requirements under the General Data Protection Regulation which governs the transfer and processing of personal data.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Review of breach policy and advising pre/ post breach in ASEAN jurisdictions.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advised UK's barley company on a wide range of matters covering an ERP application procurement, responses to cyber security breaches, the updating of staff privacy notices and transfer of personal data activities.
- United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advising on the creation of a market wide data set, and then application of AI and other analytics techniques to that data set by market leading providers, to better identify risk and trace fraudulent transactions between banks and other payment services.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advising the Satellite Applications Catapult and the Manufacturing Technology Centre to look at ways in which the sharing of data, potentially via the use of a data custodian, might be facilitated to improve the lot of cacao farmers within Colombia and more broadly, to improve productivity within the Colombian agricultural sector.
- Colombia and United Kingdom
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Acted for a UK Bank on its global GDPR programme including the remediation of supplier agreements and updates of policies, procedures and privacy notices across the Bank
- Cross-border
- Financial Services
Credentials
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2020Joined Pinsent Masons
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2013Stephenson Harwood - Partner
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2009Stephenson Harwood - Associate
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2005Nottingham Trent University - LLM (Commercial IP)
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2004Allen & Overy - Associate
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2004Qualified - England and Wales
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2002BBP, London - Legal Practice Course (LPC)
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2002Allen & Overy - Trainee
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2001The College of Law, London - PGDL
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1999Lincoln College, University of Oxford - BA (hons) (Modern History)
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