Whether you are a business operating exclusively in New Zealand, or an Australian business with a presence in New Zealand, the new Privacy Act 2020 will have an impact.
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- Tyrilly Csillag and Andrew McDonald

Tyrilly Csillag and Andrew McDonald
Head of Commercial and In-House and Writer at Practical Law respectively
Tyrilly is an experienced senior in-house lawyer with over a decade of experience working within in-house legal teams for multinational, national corporate and also government entities. Prior to joining Practical Law, she held the position of Counsel for IBM with a focus on technology contracting and data protection laws, and managed lawyers practising in the ANZ and Asia Pacific legal teams. Tyrilly currently sits on the NSW Law Society’s Privacy and Data Protection Committee, and is a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel Australia (ACC), the In-house Counsel Women’s Network (ICWN) and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (iAPP). She recently received the In-house Counsel Certified (ICC) designation from the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Credentialing Institute.
Andrew joined Practical Law after more than seven years in practice at leading law firm King & Wood Mallesons and specialist corporate firm Watson Mangioni. Andrew’s practice included advising clients on a range of corporate transactions and commercial matters including mergers and acquisitions, restructures, commercial contracts, capital raising and corporate governance.