Karl Hopkins is an internationally recognized legal advisor with extensive experience in infrastructure, energy, compliance, and cybersecurity and privacy matters. Karl counsels clients on a variety of matters involving international infrastructure development, arbitration, energy, business and political intelligence, and security and threat analysis. He also provides strategic advice regarding global operations, including the performance of due diligence and compliance investigations, physical and cybersecurity assessments, country and political risk assessments, and threat analyses. This includes providing enterprise risk management and organizational resiliency advice. He has acted as the Chief Security Officer for a large multinational organization where he was responsible for the development and oversight of the information security, physical security, compliance, investigation, threat and political analysis, data retention, incident response, and insider threat programs.

Karl also provides clients with strategic and legal advice regarding crisis and incident response, and serves as incident response counsel for several global institutions. He has managed various types of crises, including physical security breaches and cyber incidents, insider threats, and reputational impacts. He assists clients with the formulation and implementation of communication and crisis management policies and protocols.