Takeshige (Take) Sugimoto and Akihiro (Aki) Kawashima have joined the Brussels office of Bird & Bird as a partner and counsel, respectively, in the privacy and data protection practice, the firm recently announced. For more insight from Sugimoto, see “How Will the GDPR Affect Due Diligence?” (Mar. 14, 2018), and “New Criteria for Employee Monitoring Practices in Light of ECHR Decision” (Sep. 27, 2017).