Jason leads the firm’s cyber risk and insurance practice and has been a specialist cyber and financial lines insurance lawyer for 16 years.

Jason has extensive experience working with organisations, brokers and insurers, in managing cyber risk, responding to incidents, regulatory compliance and investigations, and third party disputes.  His team has assisted organisations (on direct instruction or by their insurer) that have suffered large and small data breaches, business email compromises, phishing attacks, ransomware attacks, financial fraud, international breaches (working with foreign law firms) and human error incidents.

Jason acts as the incident response manager/breach coach managing the entire process and/or the legal adviser addressing an organisation’s reporting obligations, communications strategy, contractual obligations and duties owed to clients.  He also advises organisations that are subject to regulatory investigation by the OAIC or third party litigation following a cyber incident or data breach.

Jason has strong relationships with leading cyber industry experts that we partner with to assist organisations with responding to all kinds of cyber incidents, as well as addressing all aspects of their cyber risk including vulnerability assessments, simulation exercises, incident response planning, and betterment of cybersecurity posture.  He also assists insurers with cyber policy wordings and claims management.

Jason has acted for directors/officers and companies in the financial, legal, building and technology sectors in litigated claims in all levels of Australian courts, including class actions and large insolvency litigation, and represented parties in Royal Commissions, ASIC and APRA investigations. Jason is also an industry expert regarding complex insurance coverage issues across all forms of financial lines insurance, and acted as coverage counsel for many of Australia’s largest insurers and Lloyd’s syndicates.

Jason presents regularly on cyber risk, insurance law, class actions and Royal Commissions.  He is an advocate for young lawyers choosing a legal career in cyber risk and insurance, and has worked with numerous organisations providing pro bono legal assistance over his entire career.

Jason is also admitted and currently registered as an attorney in New York State, having passed the Bar Exam in July 2008.  He also sits on the Law School’s Advisory Board of the University of Technology, Sydney, and is a National Committee member of the Australian Professional Indemnity Group.