Sam Saarsteiner helps clients with corporate disputes, corporate insolvencies, property disputes, professional negligence and other complex litigation work. Serving as the Transatlantic Practice Vice-Chair, He also advises transatlantic and domestic clients on data protection matters.
Recognitions
CIPP/e Data Privacy Certified
CEDR Accredited Mediator
State Bar Licenses
Ireland
Litigation
- Achieved the longest ever disqualification of a company director in Irish corporate history, arising from a large-scale systematic VAT fraud scheme
- Advised a large public infrastructure scheme involving three regional cities
- Represented companies, petitioners and liquidators/examiners in a range of insolvency proceedings over the last decade
- Represented a niche business in a corporate defamation action
- Represented a large lender in over 20 claims against numerous professionals
- Acted in a number of highly contentious and complex shareholder and partnership disputes
- Represented a client in hearings before the Central Bank of Ireland
- Successfully contested winding up petitions including successful appeal to the Supreme Court
- Led the legal team acting for a large group of plaintiff property investors in a highly complex claim against numerous parties (including a bank and former solicitors)
- Represented clients at professional fitness to practice hearings and at Central Bank of Ireland fitness and probity interviews
Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
- Acted as breach counsel in a multinational cybersecurity incident for an insured entity with company operations and hundred for current and former employees across the EU and UK, working in collaboration with colleagues on US side of the incident, and coordinating notifications to over 16 supervisory authorities and successfully closing off the investigation by one of those supervisory authorities, with no adverse outcome for the client.
- Acted for an accountancy practice with a partnership dispute and associated data breach, involving advices and actions to mitigate risk, notify the Data Protection Commissioner, and associated pre-litigation matters, leading to a successful outcome and client protection from a third party risk exposure standpoint.
- Represented insured entities in Ireland in respect of threats of third party litigation following cybersecurity incidents, successful closing off each at correspondence stage.
- Advised a national bank on data privacy obligations in the EU
- Advised a consumer-facing brand on its European legislative obligations with a particular focus on GDPR
- Acted in a cybersecurity incident requiring notification to supervisory authorities in three federal German states
- Advised a highly specialised auto parts manufacturer on EU vehicle cybersecurity legislative obligations
- Advised a US-based technology company on GDPR obligations including biometrics
- Advising a US technology company on breach notification obligations to potentially impacted data subjects
- Advising on DORA and NIS2 obligations and drafting of Master Service Agreements