Personal information and data is an increasingly valuable and risky business asset. L & Y is uniquely positioned to assist clients as they strive to keep up with the many international data protection and privacy laws and mitigate the risk of serious data breaches. L & Y provides highly sophisticated data management, data security and privacy law advice to our clients. Our service areas include compliance programs and policies, data subject access and opposition rights, data security, data loss prevention and data breaches, consumer protection regulation, global data transfer management, lobbying and government liaison. In addition, the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has come into force throughout the European Union on May 25, 2018. The GDPR introduces significant changes and additional requirements, which have a wide-ranging impact on businesses around the world, irrespective of where they operate. L & Y can help your business prepare for the GDPR by providing preliminary assessment on whether the GDPR applies, mapping, assessing and documenting your processing of personal data, analysis of your data sharing contracts, and advice on international transfers.