Brenda Sharton Email & Phone Number

Brenda Sharton, partner and chair of Dechert’s top ranked, global cyber, privacy & AI practice, is a top privacy and cybersecurity and commercial litigator. Ms. Sharton is Chambers ranked and a recipient of the 2022 Law360 MVP award in Cybersecurity and Privacy. For many years, Ms. Sharton has been ranked as a "Leading Lawyer" by The Legal 500 for Cyber Law and Data Protection/Breach Response. A first chair trial lawyer, Ms. Sharton counsels and represents public and private corporations and their boards in complex commercial litigation, arbitration and civil government/regulatory and enforcement matters.Ms. Sharton is a nationally recognized expert, pioneer and thought leader in privacy and cybersecurity law. She has handled over 1,200 data breach investigations and cyber-attacks of every type and size for companies in every industry ranging from start-ups to global, multi-billion-dollar public companies. Ms. Sharton has handled some of the highest-profile data breaches brought by nation states, organized crime, insiders and other threat actors, including the negotiation of ransom/ransomware, business email interruption/Office 365 attacks, corporate and nation state espionage, DDoS, insider threats and theft of computer/electronic data of all types. She has defended companies in hundreds of privacy-related government investigations and enforcement actions brought by global and U.S. regulators, including state attorneys’ general, the FTC, HHS/OCR for HIPAA breaches, the SEC Cybersecurity Division, European regulators among others, as well as defended public and private companies in class action litigation arising from those data breaches around the globe.

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