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Cécile Martin

Managing Partner || Paris

Cécile Martin is the Managing Partner of the Ogletree Deakins Paris office. 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 is a member of the CDPO France Advisory Board and Co-Chair of the Paris KnowledgeNet of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and is also a member of the firm’s International and Data Privacy practice groups. She has been ranked by Chambers for the fourth consecutive year in 2020 and has been listed in the Best Lawyers 2021 edition. She lectures on data protection law at Paris La Sorbonne University.

Cécile speaks French and English.

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Experience

Advising a company in the banking sector on a proposed reorganization, and litigation against employee representatives and representative union organizations regarding the lack of prioritization in their consultation on strategic guidelines concerning the proposed reorganization;
Assisting an SBF (Paris Stock Exchange) 120 company in the implementation of a job protection plan for several hundred jobs;
Advising a leading banking group on the management of senior executives;
Advising various companies in the implementation of internal investigations into discrimination, harassment and whistleblowing (Sapin II Act);
Advising numerous companies on compliance of HR personal data processing with the GDPR, the law of 6 January 1978 and labor law;
Assisting various companies in litigation involving violations of equality and discrimination.

Education & Admittance to Practice

Education

DESS Droit du Travail et de la Santé, Université de Paris XI

Admittance to Practice

Paris

Professional Activities & Speeches

Professional Activities

International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) : member of the CDPO Advisory Board and Co-Chair of the Paris branch of KnowledgeNet
Avosial
IDS (Labor Law Institute)
In charge of the personal data protection course for the Master 2 in Corporate Social Protection Law (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Association of Former Officials of the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL)

Speeches

Vigitrust Global Annual Advisory Board - conférence internationale sur la cybersécurité, la protection de la vie privée, la conformité, la gestion de l'information - "Intervention de clôture de la conférence - Closing keynote" - Dublin (Irlande) - 11 May 2023
Vigitrust Global Annual Advisory Board - conférence internationale sur la cybersécurité, la protection de la vie privée, la conformité, la gestion de l'information - "Intervention lors du panel "Evolution of Privacy Laws" " - Dublin (Irlande) - 10 May 2023
Cercles Décideurs RH - "Les DRH face à la RGPD et la cybersurveillance" - Châteauform’ City Les Jardins de Saint Dominique 49-51 Rue Saint-Dominique, 75007 Paris - 30 March 2023
Séminaire d’été du Club du droit Social d’Ogletree Deakins - "Conformité, éthique et alerte interne : aspects de Droit Social " - Paris - 5 July 2022
Formation pour l’association Juxta (avocats experts en Droit du Travail, de la Sécurité Sociale et de la Médiation Sociale) - "Règlement général sur la protection des données (RGPD) " - Paris - 17 June 2022
Atelier IDS 2022 - "Privacy, cybersurveillance et RGPD" - Paris - 25 May 2022
International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) - "IAPP Data Protection Intensive" - Paris - 17 March 2022
Privacy Day chez Essilor - "Assurer la protection des données face aux nouvelles pratiques de travail " - Paris - 31 January 2022
Campus AFJE - "Le point sur les mesures adoptées dans le cadre du covid-19" - Paris - 26 November 2021
Atelier IDS - "Comment préparer la reprise d'activité de votre entreprise : les obligations sociales" - Paris - 30 April 2020
Les rendez-vous d'Ogletree - "Le tour de la jurisprudence en 80 minutes" - Paris - 29 April 2020
Les rendez-vous d'Ogletree - "Les indemnités de rupture et la rémunération des dirigeants, aspects sociaux et fiscaux" - Paris - 3 March 2020
Atelier Ogletree Deakins - "S'attaquer à la DPIA : formats et faiblesses" - Paris - 11 June 2019
IAPP Data Protection Intensive : France 2019 - "S'attaquer à la DPIA : formats et faiblesses" - Paris - 12 February 2019
Labor and Employment Counsel Exclusive - "Securing your workplace in the world of data privacy and cybersecurity" - Palm Spring - 9 November 2018
Atelier IDS - "De la loi CNIL au RGPD" - Paris - 26 September 2018
Conférence Le Point - Le Bien être au Travail à l'épreuve de la Révolution digitale - "Quel retour d’expérience un an après l’entrée en vigueur des ordonnances Macron en matière de télétravail ?" - Paris - 20 September 2018
Atelier ANDRH - "Protection des données personnelles dans la sphère RH" - Paris - 19 September 2018
Atelier IDS - "La Rupture Conventionnelle Collective" - Paris - 30 May 2018