Laure Bonnave

Full Profile

Laure advises clients across a broad range of cybersecurity, data privacy and technology issues, with a particular focus on cyber incident response, privacy litigation, as well as professional liability and technology-related claims.

Recognized for her strategic and practical approach to cyber risk management, Laure serves as breach counsel and incident response lead for organizations in both the public and private sectors. She advises clients throughout the lifecycle of cybersecurity incidents, from initial containment and investigation through regulatory engagement, stakeholder communications, recovery, litigation, and post-incident remediation.

Laure has extensive experience managing high-profile and complex cyber incidents in Canada and internationally, including matters involving ransomware attacks, business email compromise, wire fraud, unauthorized access, insider threats, data loss, and large-scale privacy breaches. She coordinates multidisciplinary response teams composed of forensic specialists, threat intelligence specialists, crisis communication advisors, insurers, notification vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure an effective and legally compliant response.

Her cybersecurity and privacy practice includes advising clients on:

• cyber incident response planning, management and coordination;
• ransomware response and recovery strategies, including sanctions considerations, extortion demands, threat actor negotiations, and regulatory compliance risks;
• data breach assessment and notification obligations;
• the coordination of complex, multi-jurisdictional data breaches involving affected individuals and regulatory authorities across more than 100 jurisdictions;
• payment misdirection fraud, fund tracing initiatives, and recovery efforts;
• crisis communications, reputational risk management, and stakeholder engagement;
• regulatory investigations and inquiries;
• contractual disputes and third-party claims arising from cybersecurity and privacy incidents;
• privacy-related class action exposure and litigation risk mitigation.

In addition to her cyber and privacy practice, Laure has a strong litigation background and significant experience representing technology companies, managed service providers, software vendors, professionals, and organizations facing professional liability, negligence, and technology-related claims. She regularly advises on contractual and tort liability issues arising from cybersecurity incidents, IT service failures, data management practices, and emerging technology risks.

Through her unique combination of cyber incident response experience, privacy expertise, and litigation capabilities, Laure helps organizations navigate some of their most challenging crises while balancing legal, operational, regulatory, and reputational considerations.

Admissions

• Québec Bar, 2012

Education

• Québec Bar School, 2012

• Master of Laws (LLM), Faculty of Law, McGill University, Québec, Canada, 2009

• Master in Business Law, Faculty of Law, Panthéon-Assas University, France, 2008

• Bachelor and Master in Business Law, Faculty of Law, Jean Moulin University, France, 2007

Professional Associations

• Québec Bar

• Young Bar of Montréal

• Canadian Bar Association

• International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

• French Chamber of Commerce in Canada

• Young Philanthropists’ Circle of the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts

Presentations

• Breakfast seminar: “Série de déjeuners-conférences de Clyde & Cie : un aperçu d’actions collectives récentes,” presented by Nathalie David, Gabriel Archambault, Laure Bonnave, Ada Wittenberger and Geneviève Boisvert, June 7, 2023

• “Understanding and Responding to Cyber Threats – The Legal Aspects webcast for professional engineers and design consultants,” presented by Nathalie David and Laure Bonnave, October 18, 2022

• Client presentation: “Cybersecurity and Incident Response,” presented by Nathalie David, Laure Bonnave and Yasmine Bentourkia, September 2022

• “Common Pitfalls: How to be prepared to disclose a data breach,” presented by Laure Bonnave, February 15, 2022

• “Que se passerait-il si votre fournisseur de services gérés en TI était victime d’un incident de cybersécurité?” presented by Laure Bonnave, Othmann Layati, Jean-Simon Gervais and Matthieu Chouinard, October 2020

• Client presentation: “Cyber Insurance & Data Privacy – The Current Landscape,” presented by Nathalie David and Laure Bonnave, October 26, 2018

• Breakfast seminar: “Innovation dans le domaine de l’assurance,” presented by Nathalie David, Carolena Gordon, Jo-Anne Demers, Laure Bonnave, Prachi Shah, Arnaud Sauvé-Dagenais, April 26, 2018