Clyde & Co is a global law firm operating across nearly 70 offices worldwide, with over 5,500 people including 500 partners and legal professionals. The firm's practice centers on sectors where cyber risk directly intersects with critical infrastructure and high-value commerce: insurance, aviation, marine, construction, energy, and commodities. This is the threat landscape where a single breach or regulatory failure can cascade across jurisdictions, supply chains, and multi-party contracts worth millions.
The firm's approach leans on practitioners who have worked directly inside the industries they now advise - meaning the legal team often speaks the operational language of the sectors they serve, not just the regulatory one. For cybersecurity professionals, this matters: incident response in a marine context is not the same as incident response in insurance or energy. Clyde & Co's structure demands fluency in domain-specific risk, from data breach notification obligations across multiple regulatory regimes to the contractual and coverage complexities that follow a cyber event in a critical sector.
Founded in 1933, the firm combines what it describes as legal excellence with commercial pragmatism. Its responsible business commitments include progress toward a more diverse and inclusive workforce, environmental targets aligned with SBTi Net-Zero standards, and pro bono and charitable partnerships. The scale of the operation - nearly 70 offices globally - means cybersecurity roles here operate in an environment where data flows across borders constantly, and the attack surface is as broad as the firm's geographic and sectoral footprint.
