Rebecca is a senior consultant in our Technology, Digital, Data and IP group, having previously been a partner at the firm for over 15 years.
Rebecca heads our Data Privacy practice, with her practice also covering cyber and areas adjacent to data, including consumer protection. She supports clients on data projects, including on data commercialisation, data analytics, AI, data sharing, data governance and marketing and customer digital journeys. She also advises on data aspects of corporate and commercial transactions and as part of disputes and regulatory investigations, as well as on standalone privacy issues such as strategic DSARs. Rebecca regularly advises clients on cyber preparedness and on incident response.
Rebecca is vice chair of the City of London Law Society Data Law Committee, and regularly writes for Privacy Laws and Business, as well as speaking at their conferences and others such as the International Bar Association meetings.
Recent experience includes advising:
- a multinational distribution and outsourcing company in respect of a ransomware attack
- a financial services company on a data breach involving multiple jurisdictions
- various pension schemes impacted by the Capita data breach
- a complex data sharing scheme between organisations to prevent fraud
- an insurer on an AI project to improve efficiency of claims handling
- a FTSE 100 company on a contentious DSAR from a senior manager
- a potential purchaser on the data protection and other aspects of its proposed acquisition of a consumer data analytics business, including assessing its ability to fully exploit data whilst remaining compliant with the relevant data protection regimes
- the seller of a consumer data business, including on data privacy aspects
- L&G on the data privacy aspects of its £4.8 billion full buy in of the Boots pension scheme
- An insurer on data privacy aspects of its acquisition of renewal rights from another insurer