Al advises clients across sectors on cybersecurity and data privacy matters, with a focus on financial services and technology companies.
He provides practical and actionable advice on complex and evolving privacy and cybersecurity regulations, including CCPA/CPRA, GLBA, CDPA, CPA, FCRA, NY DFS cybersecurity regulations, NY SHIELD Act, MA data security regulations and state data broker requirements. Al also counsels clients responding to data breaches and related regulatory investigations; developing global cybersecurity and privacy programs; negotiating privacy and cybersecurity issues in technology transactions; and on cybersecurity and privacy risks in mergers and acquisitions.
Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Al helped lead cybersecurity initiatives while working at the New York State DFS, including the development and drafting of the department’s cybersecurity regulations and investigations regarding cybersecurity and privacy breaches. Al additionally led DFS’s virtual currency initiatives, including developing and drafting DFS’s virtual currency regulation and overseeing the chartering, licensing, examination and supervision of New York regulated virtual currency companies.
His previous experience also includes serving as an associate for a New York law firm, where he represented and advised commodity and derivatives clients regarding regulatory compliance matters arising under the Dodd-Frank Act and related rules and regulations promulgated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the National Futures Association.
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- Represented Securian Financial Group, Inc. in the auctioned sale of its retirement plan recordkeeping business to Standard Insurance Company.
- Represented IGM Financial, one of Canada's largest diversified wealth and asset management companies, in its purchase of an approximately 20.5 percent equity interest in Rockefeller Capital Management, for consideration of approximately $622 million.
- Represented Acacium Group, a portfolio company of Onex Partners, in its acquisition of R&D Partners, a staffing company.
- Represented Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, a New York domestic mutual life and annuity insurer, on its acquisition of 100% of the stock of Grandmark Funds, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Landmark Life Insurance Company.
- Represented DIAKRIT AB, a leader in global real estate marketing, on its acquisition of Virtuance, LLC, a US-based leading real estate photography provider.
- Blockchain and Cybersecurity, August 26, 2019, Texas Department of Insurance Training Seminar
- What you need to know about California’s new privacy act, the CCPA, July 10, 2019
- Entering the home stretch – NY DFS cybersecurity compliance in 2019, January 8, 2019
- Webcast: What US companies need to know about the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) – Are you ready?, October 24, 2018
- 2018 Cybersecurity Law Institute, May 23-24, 2018, Georgetown University Law Center
- Webcast–New York State DFS Cybersecurity Regulation: Are you ready for the next round of requirements?, May 17, 2018
- Cybersecurity Risk Update: The Regulatory Bellwether, April 20, 2018, Enterprise Risk Management Symposium
- Regulation of Financial Institutions: Translating Law into Compliance – Data Security and Cybersecurity Requirements, January 25, 2017, New York City Bar Association
- ACLI Annual Conference 2017, October 8-10, 2017
- Webcast: New York State DFS Cybersecurity Regulation: Separating Myth From Reality, July 26, 2017
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the area of media, technology and telecoms: cyber law (2025)
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States as a "rising star" in the area of media, technology and telecoms: cyber law (2024) and as a “Next Generation Partner” in the area of media, technology and telecoms: cyber law (2025)
- Recognized by the National Law Journal as a Cybersecurity Trailblazer (2017)
- Military-Business Cybersecurity Fellow, Madison Policy Forum (2016)
- Insurance Committee Co-Leader, The Virtual Commodity Association
- New York
- Texas
- J.D., cum laude, Hofstra University School of Law,
Research Editor, Hofstra Law Review
- B.A., Stony Brook University