Will Richmond-Coggan > Freeths LLP > Oxford, England > Lawyer Profile
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Will Richmond-Coggan
Work Department
Dispute Management / Commercial
Position
Will is a Partner specialising in data protection advice, both contentious and non-contentious. Will advises a range of clients from large multi-nationals looking to ensure that their UK/EU operations are compliant with the requirements of GDPR while integrating with their worldwide activities, through to start ups particularly working in the deep tech fields like AI, facial recognition and big data applications.
As a nationally recognised expert on GDPR and data protection matters, Will has established a broad practice servicing clients across the UK, as well as having considerable experience in advising clients based in the US/Canada and in the Far East. He provides strategic advice to help clients to build products and services around the concepts of data protection by design, supports clients with their transformation or compliance audit activities, and represents clients in contentious matters up to and including at Court in appropriate circumstances.
Will’s broader disputes work encompasses a range of commercial technology disputes. He has acted for national and international hardware and software companies in litigating over misuse of their information; breaches of contract and diversion of business and for smaller clients in some ground-breaking litigation around social media litigation.
Career
Called to the Bar 2000 (Lincoln’s Inn), 2MCB chambers (2000-2002), Fladgate Fielder (solicitors) 2002-2007, Pitmans solicitors 2007-2018, Joined Freeths LLP in January 2019
Languages
French (Conversational)
Memberships
Solicitors Association of Higher Courts Advocates
Education
University of Oxford, Jurisprudence
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Insurance > Professional negligence
The sizeable Oxford dispute resolution practice at Freeths LLP acts for both claimants and defendants in an array of directors & officers’ liability insurance, legal professions as well as technology and IT professional negligence claims. Sarah Foster ’s practice encompasses contentious probate matters and related trust disputes. Clare Bellis is well-versed in professional negligence concerning property law, while Will Richmond-Coggan is adept in data privacy breaches claims. Caroline Watson is experienced in advising financial services businesses with mis-selling claims and policy holder disputes.
South East > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
(Next Generation Partners)Freeths LLP‘s Thames Valley-based contingent primarily acts on behalf of corporate clients, but also represents landed estates as well as educational and charitable institutions on a broad variety of disputes. Core pillars of the team’s commercial litigation offering include contractual disputes, fraud allegations, M&A-associated litigation, shareholder conflicts, and IT and cyber issues – to name a few. Caroline Watson leads the team out of the Oxford office, excelling on complicated technology-sector disputes. Director Will Richmond-Coggan is a seasoned litigator, well-known for his work on data protection issues. Managing associate Paul Brown is another key point of contact.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners South East > Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Professional negligence South East > Insurance
- Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40 South East > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: claimant
- Real estate > Commercial property: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Employment > Employment: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Real estate > Commercial property: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Employment > Employment: Beds, Bucks, Herts, Middx
- Private client > Family: Thames Valley, Berks, Oxon, M4/M40
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery