UK Law and Practice Contributed by: William Long, Francesca Blythe, Eleanor Dodding and Matthias Bruynseraede, Sidley Austin LLP
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rior client service. The team helps a range of busi - nesses address some of the most challenging mat - ters concerning data protection, privacy, information security and incident response, data commerciali - sation, internet and computer law, IP, information management and records retention, e-commerce, consumer protection, and cybercrime. Sidley Austin advises clients with extensive operations in Europe, the USA, Asia, and elsewhere on developing and im - plementing global data protection programmes.
Authors
William Long is a partner at Sidley Austin LLP, where he leads the EU and UK data protection practice and is global co-leader of the firm’s highly ranked privacy and cybersecurity practice. William advises international
Eleanor Dodding is a senior managing associate at Sidley Austin LLP. Eleanor advises on a wide range of data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity matters, including compliance with both the EU and UK
clients on a wide variety of AI, cyber and digital data laws, as well as data protection, privacy, information security, social media, e-commerce and other regulatory matters. He has been a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)’s European Advisory Board and on the DataGuidance panel of data protection lawyers.
General Data Protection Regulation, the UK Data Protection Act 2018, and ePrivacy legislative frameworks, such as the EU ePrivacy Directive and the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, alongside new EU and UK AI, digital data and cyber laws. She advises clients across a range of industries, with a particular focus on life sciences, asset management and private equity, insurance, retail, payments and technology.
Francesca Blythe is a partner at Sidley Austin LLP and advises international clients on a wide range of privacy, cybersecurity and emerging technology issues, including on privacy and cybersecurity
Matthias Bruynseraede is a managing associate at Sidley Austin LLP. Matthias focuses on EU and UK privacy, cybersecurity, AI and data regulation laws, including domestic and international privacy and data
compliance strategies. She has also counselled clients on preparing for and responding to data breaches of varying sizes. Francesca co-leads Sidley Austin’s benchmarking group for in-house data privacy professionals (dplegal) in the life sciences sector and was previously in-house counsel at the largest international health and beauty retailer in Asia and Europe. While there, she regularly provided advice on compliance and data protection strategies.
protection laws, data breach and cyber incident responses, data use and localisation questions and internal audits regarding privacy and cybersecurity issues. More recently, Matthias has been focusing on the EU data, cyber and AI laws, including the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), the Network and Information Systems 2 Directive (NIS2), the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), the Critical Entities Resilience Directive (CER) and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).
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