Overview
Rebecca is a Managing Associate in the Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations team in London, specialising in complex litigation and investigations.
She has particular experience advising in relation to contentious tech matters including relating to online safety, AI, privacy and data protection, cybersecurity and competition issues. She acts for clients in relation to significant and high-profile group litigation, including funded litigation, and she also advises on strategically important regulatory and investigations matters. Rebecca is one of the firm’s experts on online safety and regularly advises clients on matters concerning the UK’s Online Safety Act and interactions with Ofcom.
More broadly, she has significant experience advising in relation to crisis management and investigations, including complex cross-border investigations. Rebecca has spent time on secondment in-house to a global social media platform.
Rebecca is also passionate about pro bono initiatives and regularly acts for pro bono clients.
Experience
Rebecca’s recent matters include:
- Advising a major technology company on two data breach representative class actions concerning events that were the subject of significant regulatory and public scrutiny.
- Advising a major technology company on the defence of a threatened claim in the English courts concerning harm alleged to have been caused by online content.
- Advising a major entertainment platform on a potential challenge to an international regulator’s decision concerning data privacy.
- Acting for a global technology company on its defence of a competition class action alleging abuse of dominance relating to operation of its digital store.
- Acting for a leading payment scheme on its defence of proceedings brought by merchants who allege breaches of competition law in relation to multilateral interchange fees.
- Advising a leading payment scheme on two collective actions (one opt-in and one opt-out) brought by retailers in respect of interchange fees before the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
- Conducting a post-incident review for a professional services firm following a major data breach.
- Advising several tech companies on an ongoing basis on aspects of their implementation of the UK’s Online Safety Act and their interactions with Ofcom.
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