Travis co-chairs Cooley’s global cyber/data/privacy practice. He is a top authority on cybersecurity, data privacy, telecommunications, and the regulation of emerging and innovative technologies. He helps clients manage regulatory and litigation risk, as well as strategically respond to data breaches, cyberattacks, nation-state attacks, dissemination of stolen data, misinformation campaigns, and government enforcement efforts.

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In addition to advising Boards and senior corporate officers, Travis counsels clients on antitrust investigations, telecommunications strategies, and regulatory enforcement responses. He has been appointmented across the political spectrum, including the Department of Commerce and the European Commission to serve as an arbitrator for the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework. He has assisted clients with FCC proceedings and regulations and has worked with Congress and other agencies advocating for technology companies before regulatory bodies. He has worked closely with senior officials at the FTC, SEC, CFPB, DOJ, all 50 state attorneys general, and data protection authorities across the globe.

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Since 2019, he has served on the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. As former chief of the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau, he spearheaded hundreds of enforcement actions involving consumer issues, such as false advertising and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, unfair competition, regulatory compliance, and fraud, waste, and abuse of government programs. Travis previously served as a senior adviser to Kamala Harris during her time as California Attorney General and also served as special assistant attorney general of California. Before this, he served as an attorney in the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel.

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Travis’s background and leadership roles, as well as his practice at leading law firms, have translated into advising clients – both nationally and globally – on responding to and finding solutions for novel local, state, federal, and cross-border issues. He also has represented companies, boards, founders, CEOs, executives, and other prominent individuals in a diverse array of complex and bet-the-company civil litigation, government investigations, and advisory matters.