This course offers comprehensive training on data protection and privacy, covering key principles, requirements, and best practices. This webinar is designed to help organisations understand and implement GDPR effectively, ensuring they meet regulatory obligations and protect sensitive data. 

The course will cover the following aspects:

• Definition of the critical data protection rules and roles
• Determining the scope of the GDPR
• The GDPR principles
• Impact of cross-border data transfer regulations under the GDPR
• The six principles for the collection/processing of personal data
• Accountability
• GDPR application
• Collecting and processing personal data
• Personal and sensitive data
• Requesting personal data
• Minors and consent
• Data breach reporting

You will learn about:

• Introduction to the GDPR
• Critical Content and Scope
• Obligations of data controllers and processors
• The new role of the Data Protection Officer (DPO)
• Mitigating and managing data breaches
• Data transfers outside of the EU
• Complying with the Regulation
• Implementation issues and Conclusions

Who Should Attend:

The seminar is generally aimed at individuals involved in IP-related activities, including:

• Lawyers and Legal Practitioners
• Business Professionals
• Tech Professionals and Entrepreneurs
• Data Protection Officers, Senior Management Officials, Compliance Officers, Service Providers

What’s Included

• Course material
• Certificate of Attendance

Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance for 2.5 CPD units subject to full atttendance of the webinar.

Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. She obtained her LLB and LLM (EU law) from the University of Leicester. Nicky is a certified Trusts & Estates Practitioner (TEP - STEP Chairwoman of the STEP Cyprus Branch, a certified AML Compliance Officer from the Cyprus Securities & Exchange Commission, licensed Insolvency Practitioner, and Vice President of the Trusts Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association appointed in 2023.

In 2019, Nicky established the law firm N. Xenofontos LLC, of which she is the Managing Partner. The firm is a boutique, business centric law firm, specialising in corporate, commercial law, intellectual property, insolvency and restricting, trusts and estates, compliance, regulatory, privacy law and fiduciary appointments.

Major areas of expertise and practice include the setting up and administration of trusts, general legal advice and opinions, estate and inheritance planning, intellectual property corporate insolvency / restructuring, general corporate and commercial law. Another major area of practice and expertise is compliance, anti-money laundering and regulatory matters having advised major corporations and governmental authorities as well as private clients and firms on their AML, compliance and regulatory matters.

Apart from the above, Nicky is a legal trainer-lecturer on her areas of expertise and regularly holds seminars through the firm's legal training centre - NextStep Legal Training Centre accredited by the Cyprus Bar Association for Continuous Professional Development and also provides in-house training to law firms, accounting and audit firms.

In November 2022, Nicky was appointed by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Cyprus to serve as a non-executive member of the Board of Directors of the semi-governmental owned House Financing Corporation.