Bryony Long > Lewis Silkin > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Lewis Silkin
Arbor
255 Blackfriars Rd
LONDON
SE1 9AX
England
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Work Department

Data and Privacy

Position

Partner: Bryony us Co-Head of Lewis Silkin’s Data and Privacy Group. She works in three main areas: data & privacy; commercial & consumer; and technology.
She has a commercial & consumer and technology background so regularly advises clients across all three practice areas.

Bryony has advised a number of high profile clients on a range of complex data protection issues particularly around data collection and commercial exploitation. She has also been involved in a number of high profile data regulatory investigations for large multi-national clients.

Bryony holds the IAPP CIPP/E data protection/privacy accreditation and has spoken at a number of events on data & privacy issues.

From a commercial, technology and consumer perspective, Bryony has a wealth of experience advising clients on both demand and supply side on a range of commercial agreements including supply of goods/services, software licensing & distribution, cloud services, agency and distribution, franchising, warehousing and logistics, sponsorship and ticketing, client/agency, media buying and confidentiality. Bryony has also advised on e-commerce compliance and general consumer law issues and has been involved in a number of consumer regulatory investigations acting on behalf of well-known retailers.

Bryony’s particular area of specialism are retail and adtech and she is part of the Lewis Silkin’s Retail Law Group and Lewis Silkin’s Advertising and Marketing Law Group.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity

The team at Lewis Silkin has recently been renamed to reflect a growing focus on cybersecurity work, in addition to its more established data and privacy strengths; newly promoted partner Ali Vaziri is spearheading this area. The group is particularly well regarded by clients from the technology, financial services, retail and advertising sectors. Alexander Milner-Smith and Bryony Long jointly helm the department, while Tom Ford is a key name.

London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence

Hailed for being ‘super responsive’ and ‘very diligent’, Lewis Silkin has vast expertise in IP ownership and infringement issues, generative AI-based matters, and corporate transactions within the AI space. The firm’s reach is broad, representing both start-ups and multinational corporations, with Oxford-based co-head James Davies being highly knowledgeable on the intersection between employment law and AI. The other three co-leads, Cliff Fluet, Bryony Long, and Ali Vaziri are all London-based, each bringing vast insight into AI policies and procedures to the outfit, alongside copyright infringement and data privacy knowledge. Tarun Tawakley and Alexander Milner-Smith are both additionally cited as key contacts.