Gary Corn
Professor Gary Corn is a recently retired U.S. Army colonel, and is widely recognized as one of the nation’s top experts on cyber and national security law. Prior to joining TLS, Professor Corn served over twenty-seven years on active duty in the U.S. Army as a military attorney practicing national security law at the highest levels within the Department of Defense. His final five years he served as the Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel) to U.S. Cyber Command. Professor Corn is a frequent, and highly-sought out speaker at international and national conferences and has published numerous articles, book chapters, and blog posts, including in the American Journal of International Law, The Temple International and Comparative Law Journal, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and on Just Security. For the past several years, he has, via U.S. Cyber Command, run a major international law conference, drawing hundreds of military and civilian leading international law scholars and practitioners. During his military career, Professor Corn also served as a Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Operational Law Branch Chief in the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Army, a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, and on deployment as the Chief of International Law for Combined Forces Command in Afghanistan. Professor Corn received a JD from the George Washington University, a BA in International Relations from Bucknell University, an LLM from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, and an MA in National Security Studies from the United States Army War College. Professor Corn is an Advisory Board Director for the Cyber Security Forum Initiative.
Erez Libermann
Erez is widely acknowledged as a leading cybersecurity and data privacy lawyer, together with having deep experience in government investigations and litigation. He brings his considerable experience as a litigator, prosecutor and in-house counsel, as well as aerospace engineer, to deliver practical, commercially focused advice to clients on business strategy, and legal and regulatory issues.
Erez advises major businesses on a wide range of cybersecurity and privacy legal, policy and investigative matters, including incident response, privacy breaches and intellectual property theft. He has led tabletop exercises to simulate responses to cyber events around the globe, including in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Argentina, Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Erez has also advised extensively on government investigations and has wide-ranging experience in general litigation.
Before joining Linklaters, Erez was Prudential Financial’s chief counsel on cybersecurity and privacy in which capacity he built one of the first cybersecurity, privacy and data legal teams in a Fortune 500 company and a global cyber investigative team. He regularly advised senior management and the Board on a broad range of cybersecurity and privacy issues and led the company’s global response efforts to cyber and privacy breaches. Erez also serves on the New York State Cybersecurity Advisory Board.
As a federal prosecutor, Erez spent 10 years investigating and prosecuting global cyber and white collar crimes. As Deputy Chief of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, Erez prosecuted and oversaw over 40 prosecutors handling white collar crimes, including cybercrime, terrorism, espionage, FCPA, securities fraud, and money laundering. As Chief of the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Section, and National Security Cyber Specialist, Erez led groundbreaking cyber prosecutions, including the largest credit card hacking case charged to date, US v. Vladimir Drinkman et al., relating to hacks into 7-Eleven, JC Penney, Heartland Payment Systems, Hannaford Brothers, Visa, Jet Blue, and others. He prosecuted the first hack and theft of internet telephony (VOIP), US v. Edwin Pena, and the use of hacking to facilitate securities fraud, US v. Christopher Rad.
Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Erez was a litigation and intellectual property associate at another global firm.
Erez's cases have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Wired, CNN and other media outlets. He is a frequent commentator on cyber and data privacy issues.
Chase Cunningham
Alexander Greenberg
Robin Smith
Raphael Borrel
Praveen Singh
Philipp Amann
Philipp is the Head of Strategy at the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). EC3 Strategy is responsible for assessing and acting on relevant trends and threats related to cybercrime and cyber-security. Other key areas of responsibility include providing strategic support to investigations, driving innovation, managing EC3’s industry advisory groups, prevention & awareness and capacity building.
Philipp has worked in various fields, including the financial sector, global disarmament, international investigations and on issues related to safety and security in cyberspace, topics he deeply cares about.
His professional experience is complemented by degrees in business informatics from the University of Vienna and in forensic computing and cybercrime investigation from the University College Dublin.
Paul Haywood
