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Damien Young

Damien heads the firm’s litigation and dispute resolution group, handling commercial disputes across a broad range of areas including data protection, public procurement and construction law. He has acted for a large number of public and private sector clients in High Court judicial review proceedings involving challenges to the award of public contracts. Damien advises on all aspects of EU and Irish data protection law, privacy and defamation matters. He acted for Ireland’s Data Protection Commission in the Schrems I and Schrems II litigation that resulted in decisions of the European Court of Justice setting aside the “safe harbour” and “privacy shield” regimes for EU/US data transfers. · Philip Lee LLP

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Damien Young heads Philip Lee LLP’s litigation and dispute resolution group, handling commercial disputes across areas including data protection, public procurement and construction law. He advises on EU and Irish data protection and privacy matters, has acted in numerous High Court judicial review challenges to public contract awards, and represented Ireland’s Data Protection Commission in the Schrems I and Schrems II litigation before the European Court of Justice.

Practice areas

LitigationDispute ResolutionData Protection & PrivacyPublic ProcurementConstructionAdministrative / Public LawDefamation

Office

Ireland

Philip Lee LLP · Damien heads the firm’s litigation and dispute resolution group, handling commercial disputes across a broad range of areas including data protection, public procurement and construction law. He has acted for a large number of public and private sector clients in High Court judicial review proceedings involving challenges to the award of public contracts. Damien advises on all aspects of EU and Irish data protection law, privacy and defamation matters. He acted for Ireland’s Data Protection Commission in the Schrems I and Schrems II litigation that resulted in decisions of the European Court of Justice setting aside the “safe harbour” and “privacy shield” regimes for EU/US data transfers.

Ireland

Expertise

Data protection (EU and Irish)PrivacyPublic procurement and judicial review of contract awardsConstruction lawDefamation

Admissions

  • Law Society of Ireland
  • The Dublin Solicitors’ Bar Association