Cécile Martin is the Managing Partner of the Ogletree Deakins Paris office and is a co-chair of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions practice group. She advises clients on compensation policies (including material risk takers), discrimination and harassment litigation, corporate restructuring, mass redundancies plans as well as collective litigation. By starting her career at the French Data Protection Agency (CNIL), Cecile has developed leading edge skills particularly on topics related to GDPR employee monitoring at the workplace, whistleblowing alerts, social media use and international data transfer.

Cécile has been a member of the European Advisory Board of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) since 2016 and is also a member of the firm’s International and Data Privacy practice groups. She was ranked in 2017 and 2018 “Next Generation Lawyer” by Legal 500 and “Up-and-Coming” by Chambers. She lectures on data protection law at Paris La Sorbonne University and regularly provides training to companies regarding the compliance with the GDPR.

Cécile speaks French and English.