Christopher Ott

Chris Ott, CIPP/US, works with clients on disputes, investigations, and strategy relating to data security, privacy, blockchain, and AI issues. Ott has been the lead attorney on hundreds of matters involving the intersection between white collar matters (accounting, securities, money laundering) and cybercrimes (from international criminal gangs to state actors). Ott spent more than 13 years at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) successfully litigating complex data security matters, conducting hundreds of investigations, and winning dozens of appeals, Ott, who has won more than 30 complex federal trials, brings an active, problem-solving mindset to data protection and privacy matters instead of passive compliance and counselling advice.