Toni Vitale

Partner, Winckworth Sherwood

 

Toni is a partner and head of the Regulation, Data & Information team at Winckworth Sherwood. His considerable in-house experience enables him to offer practical, commercially-focused solutions in what is often a technical and complex area. After starting his career in private practice, Toni has held a number of positions as a senior legal adviser, General Counsel, Head of Legal and Company Secretary in household name businesses over the last 15 years,  including IBM (where he was EMEA Data Privacy Counsel), Virgin Media, YouView TV and BGL Group (owners of comparethemarket.com). He was also Global Privacy Counsel at Willis Towers Watson.

Toni has assisted clients in the banking and insurance, retail, media, public (including Health and MOD), and telecoms and technology sectors on a wide range of privacy and cyber security issues, including regulatory and compliance investigations, profiling, data monetisation and data breaches.

He has advised on GDPR, e-privacy, PECR, net neutrality, RIPA, reputation management and cyber security. He has consulted with CEOP, the Home Office and NTAC and given evidence to a Joint Committee of Parliament on the Data Communications Bill.