Lee Harding

Partner, DLA Piper

Lee Harding is a Partner in the DLA Piper Employment team and has been with the firm since 2022. Prior to this, Lee was partner at Morgan Lewis for four years. His extensive expertise and experience span all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law. This includes sophisticated, high stakes litigation in the Employment Tribunals and in the High Court, especially with respect to business competition cases for insurance and technology clients.

Whilst his practice is industry agnostic, Lee has notable experience advising clients in the financial services sector on the cross-over between employment and regulatory issues, especially where this relates to investigations into allegations of non-financial misconduct or whistleblowing.

Lee regularly counsels on international employment needs, including global restructuring, business integration and pay equity audits, as well as advising on, negotiating, and drafting critical business protections as part of major outsourcing and other corporate transactions.

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Implementing a global corporate whistleblowing policy: data protection issues

Practice Notes

This Practice Note provides an introduction to the data protection implications of establishing a global corporate whistleblowing scheme. It considers corporate whistleblowing requirements in the UK, US and EU, the EU data protection law approach to whistleblowing, the impact on whistleblowing schemes of restrictions on exporting personal data, other regulatory issues, and guidance from the Article 29 Working Party (now the European Data Protection Board). A compliance strategy is suggested.

Employment