About Paul
Paul Lanois trained in two legal traditions. He earned a law degree from the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne and completed an LL.M. at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2007. That combination of continental and common-law education has shaped a career that moves between Europe, North America and Asia.
He began his practice in London as an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in 2007. By 2009 he had taken an academic post as an associate professor at Université de Cergy-Pontoise in France. He returned to private practice in Luxembourg, where he worked as an associate at Allen & Overy in 2011 and later at Linklaters in 2013. Those years established his grounding in cross-border finance and international regulatory work.
In 2018 he joined Credit Suisse in Hong Kong as Vice President and senior legal counsel. The in-house role put him at the intersection of banking, regulation and operational risk. He moved into practice and policy roles in the following years. In 2019 he took on a director role at Fieldfisher and began teaching as an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. In 2020 he co-chaired the San Jose chapter of OneTrust PrivacyConnect. He has served on advisory boards for the International Association of Privacy Professionals and on committees within the California Lawyers Association, including service on the Privacy Law Section Executive Committee in 2021.
Lanois holds admissions in California, New York and the District of Columbia. He also maintains memberships in several professional organizations, including the District of Columbia Bar since 2016 and other associations dating back to 2008 and 2020. The sequence of law firm, in-house and academic posts gives him a practical view of how policy and compliance affect transactions and operations across jurisdictions.
His practice centers on privacy and data protection, regulatory compliance and cross-border matters. He advises on issues that arise at the meeting point of finance, technology and law. He splits time between client advisory work, policy engagement and teaching. He is currently a director at Fieldfisher and practices in matters related to privacy, data protection and cross-border regulatory compliance.
