UK Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: William Long, Francesca Blythe, Eleanor Dodding and Anila Rayani Sidley Austin LLP
Sidley Austin LLP is a premier global law firm with a practice highly attuned to the ever- changing international landscape. The firm ad - vises clients around the globe and has more than 2,300 lawyers in 21 offices worldwide. Sid - ley Austin maintains a commitment to provid - ing quality legal services and offering advice on litigation, transactional and regulatory matters spanning virtually every area of law. The firm’s lawyers have wide-reaching legal backgrounds and are dedicated to teamwork, collaboration, and superior client service. The team helps a
range of businesses address some of the most challenging matters concerning data protec - tion, privacy, information security and incident response, data commercialisation, internet and computer law, IP, information management and records retention, e-commerce, consumer pro - tection, and cybercrime. Sidley Austin advises clients with extensive operations in Europe – as well as in the USA, Asia and elsewhere – on de - veloping and implementing global data protec - tion 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
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 practice. William advises international 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. William has also been on the editorial board of “e-Health Law & Policy” and assists with dplegal, a network for privacy professionals.
cybersecurity compliance strategies. She has also counselled clients in 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 gave advice on compliance and strategies relating to data protection laws and assisted in the planning and delivery of a global privacy compliance project.
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