06 Mar 2026
Bird & Bird strengthens France data protection team with two partner hires
"Bird & Bird has appointed Romain Perray and Lorraine Maisnier-Boché as partners in Paris to bolster its Privacy & Data Protection practice, with focus on digital health, insurance and mobility."
Romain Perray joins Bird & Bird as a partner with 21 years at the Paris bar specialising in data privacy and data protection law. He advises across the full spectrum of data protection and data security matters for clients in automotive, adtech, life sciences, insurance, e-commerce, leisure, social networks and the public sector, notably in smart city projects. His experience includes multijurisdictional cross-border data transfer strategies (including global intragroup data transfer framework agreements), joint data controller and data processor agreements, privacy and cookie policies, and the use of personal data for marketing and profiling in Big Data contexts. Romain has conducted numerous privacy impact assessments, international data protection audits and also advises on the EU Data Act, open data issues and cybersecurity matters including incident response, NIS2 and DORA compliance programmes. He is a lecturer in data privacy and data protection at several universities and the author of academic legal publications.
Lorraine Maisnier-Boché returns to Bird & Bird as a partner. She has 15 years of experience in data protection, e-commerce, cybersecurity and IT law, with a primary sectoral focus on life sciences, insurance and adtech. Lorraine regularly advises medtech and biotech companies, digital health providers, medical device manufacturers, health care professionals, cosmetic companies, insurance companies and data brokers on GDPR compliance programmes, international data transfers, marketing and profiling actions, sensitive data such as personal health data, AI, compliance, audits and cybersecurity. She has served as Senior Legal Counsel at the French Digital Health Agency (ANS), is a lecturer in data protection law at Paris universities, has authored papers on digital and health law, sits on the board of the Association for the Development of IT Law (ADIJ), is an associate researcher at the Legal Research Institute Law and Health and holds a CIPP/E qualification. Lorraine originally began her career at Bird & Bird.