People
Robert is a partner in our Commercial team and a core part of our Tier 1 ranked TMC and Privacy and Security team. He is recommended by independent journals like Legal 500, Chambers and Partners and Who's Who.
Robert works closely with leading companies in devising their data protection strategies and compliance programmes and dealing with security incidents. His clients include financial institutions, insurance companies, broadcasters, utilities and leading Internet companies.
He also helps clients navigate and complete complex technology and outsourcing deals. He has developed a focused expertise in public procurement as a result of the significant public sector projects he has worked on such as the National Postcode project and the Grangegorman campus project. He is currently working on the implementation of the National Broadband Plan and Emergency Call Answering Services.
Specialties
- Information Technology
- Data Protection
- Commercial Contracts
- Public Procurement
Representative Matters
- Working with leading Internet companies, financial institutions, insurance companies and others on domestic and global data protection compliance strategies and security incidents.
- Advising the Irish Government on the massive National Broadband Project – one of the most significant rural projects since electrification.
- Advising the Irish Government on data protection, public procurement and the contractual matrix for the roll out of the new Irish Postcode System. This is the first postcode system worldwide with a unique postcode for each property or residence with a postbox..
Recommendations
Legal 500, 2019
“Recommended Lawyer”, Robert McDonagh is described as “excellent and very thorough”.
Chambers and Partners, 2018
"Encyclopaedic knowledge of the law, very friendly, down-to-earth and knows his stuff"
Speaking Engagements & Teaching
- Ireland and England as an establishment for Internet companies: Internet and Social Medial Law Conference London (November 2016)
- General Data Protection Regulation and Data Processor Clauses, Society for Computers and Law (September 2016), London
Authorship
Co-author Law Society of Ireland Technology Manual
Co-author 'B2B e-marketplaces: A legal analysis of unfair trade practices within the European Union' published by the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.
Co-author National Registration for Producers of Electronic Waste published by Springer.
Areas of Expertise
Commercial Contracts & Sourcing Competition & Antitrust General Data Protection Regulation Technology Law Privacy & Data Security Public Procurement BrexitProfessional Memberships
Data Protection Committee, Society for Computers and Law
IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals)
Procurement Law Forum (founding committee member)
Irish Society for European Law
Education
University College Dublin, Ireland, (BBLS)
