Brock Dahl

Brock is a partner in our Washington, DC and Silicon Valley offices, where he focuses on guiding clients through complex cybersecurity and data privacy matters, advanced technology development, regulatory investigations, and international transactional negotiations and diligence.

Brock brings cutting-edge technology, cyber and data experience to the firm after spending several years with the National Security Agency (NSA) and earlier years in Silicon Valley. As Deputy General Counsel, Operations at the NSA, he advised the NSA’s leadership on how to achieve their mission objectives within the boundaries of state, federal, and international cyber, privacy, and national security laws. He has a deep understanding of advanced technologies, national security issues, complex international legal regimes, and global transactions.

Prior to serving as counsel at the NSA, Brock practiced at international law firms, where he counseled on data privacy, cybersecurity, government investigations and white-collar defense, and transactional issues. Brock also held several positions at the U.S. Department of Treasury, where he advised on a range of issues relating to banking and payments infrastructure, macroeconomic stability in rapidly evolving markets, and organized criminality in emergent marketplaces.

Brock has authored pieces and often speaks publicly on legal strategy regarding a variety of national security, cybersecurity, and frontier technology topics. He has also authored a fiction novel on pre-civil war Lebanon, titled The Third Force.