Francesca Blythe advises international clients on a wide range of data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, and emerging technology issues. She has in-depth experience across multiple industries, including asset management and private equity, payments, technology, retail, e-commerce, and manufacturing. Francesca has a particular focus on life sciences, where she advises on a broad range of issues in relation to clinical studies/investigations, secondary research, digital health, and use of novel technologies (including artificial intelligence). Francesca co-leads Sidley’s benchmarking group for in-house data privacy professionals (dplegal) in the life sciences sector.

Eleanor Dodding advises international clients on a wide range of data protection, privacy, and cybersecurity matters, including advising on compliance with both the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK Data Protection Act 2018, and ePrivacy legislative frameworks, such as the EU ePrivacy Directive and the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), alongside new EU and UK AI, digital data, and cyber laws. She advises clients in a range of industries, with a particular focus on those in the life sciences, asset management and private equity, insurance, retail, payments, and technology sectors.