Paul A. Ferrillo Counsel, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Paul Ferrillo is counsel in Weil’s Securities Litigation practice and a member of the Firm’s Cybersecurity, Data Privacy & Information Management group. He focuses on complex securities and business litigation, internal investigations, and cyber-related corporate governance and insurance issues. He has substantial experience in the representation of public companies and their directors and officers in shareholder class and derivative actions, as well as in internal investigations. As part of Weil’s Cybersecurity, Data Privacy & Information Management group, Mr. Ferrillo also regularly advises clients in the growing field of cybersecurity corporate governance, which is an increasingly important part of a board’s enterprise risk management function. Mr. Ferrillo counsels clients on cyber-governance best practices (using as a base the National Institute of Standards cybersecurity framework), third-party vendor due diligence issues, cybersecurity regulatory compliance issues for private equity, hedge funds, and financial institutions that have been promulgated by the SEC, FINRA, the FTC, and the FDIC/OCC, the preparation and practicing of cybersecurity incident response plans, as well as evaluating and procuring cyber-liability insurance to protect against losses suffered by companies as a result the theft of consumer or personally identifiable information, or as a result of the destruction of servers and corporate infrastructure.