Erez Liebermann

Co-Chair, Technology Group; Member, Data Strategy, & Security Group; Partner,
Debevoise & Plimpton

Erez Liebermann is a litigation partner at Debevoise & Plimpton. He is Co-Chair of the firm’s Technology Group and a core member of the Data Strategy & Security Group. Combining his background as an aerospace engineer, prosecutor, and in-house counsel, his practice focuses on advising major businesses on a wide range of complex, high-impact investigations, incident response, litigation, and regulatory matters.

Mr. Liebermann joined Debevoise after serving as Co-Chair of the U.S. Data Solutions, Cyber & Privacy Group at Linklaters LLP. He previously served as Chief Counsel, Cybersecurity and Privacy, at Prudential Financial, where he led the company’s legal, regulatory, and investigative matters relating to cyber, privacy, data science, and artificial intelligence, including advising senior management and the board. In addition to his role as counsel, Mr. Liebermann built and managed Prudential’s global technical incident response, threat intelligence, and threat hunting team.

Mr. Liebermann previously spent ten years at the Department of Justice and served as Chief of the Cyber Section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, where he was the lead prosecutor on a number of the nation’s largest cyber prosecutions, including cases involving hackers responsible for breaches of Heartland, NASDAQ, Visa, JCPenney, 7-Eleven, and others.

In 2023, Mr. Liebermann was appointed by the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court to serve on the Court’s AI Committee and is Co-Chair of the Association of Insurance and Risk Management Counsel’s Data and Technology Section. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he teaches Cyber Incident Response. Mr. Liebermann is a frequent speaker at leading cybersecurity conferences and was featured in a Wall Street Journal podcast covering his work at the Department of Justice.