Bridget leads the UK Privacy and Information Management practice at Hunton & Williams. Her extensive experience of privacy law spans more than 10 years. Her practice focuses on privacy, data protection, information governance and e-commerce issues for multinational companies across a broad range of industry sectors. Bridget is widely respected for offering pragmatic advice to clients. She was ranked by Computerworld magazine as one of the top ten privacy lawyers globally (2008) and is ranked in "Band 1" by Chambers and Partners (2009).
Bridget's background in complex technology transactions (including wide-ranging experience of advising on sourcing agreements, strategic alliances and other collaborative arrangements with a technology focus) enable her to advise on the specific data protection and information governance issues that occur in outsourcing transactions. Bridget is the co-author of Intellect’s Data Security and Data Protection Guidelines for Offshoring and Outsourcing (2010).
Bridget is a frequent speaker on privacy-related issues, is editor of the specialist privacy journal "Privacy and Data Protection", and has contributed to a number of published texts including Data Protection for Financial Firms: A Practical Guide to Managing Privacy and Information Risk (2010).
Relevant Experience 
- Advised numerous clients on strategies for cross border data transfers, using Model Clauses, Safe Harbor and Binding Corporate Rules;
- Advised numerous clients on the EU data protection implications of cloud-based data processing;
- Counselled numerous clients on EU data breach notification requirements, including negotiations with DPAs and responses to enforcement proceedings;
- Conducted privacy assessments of the online information practices of numerous multinational companies including in the media, retail and technology sectors;
- Prepared numerous privacy policies and standards, across a wide-range of industry sectors;
- Co-author of the Intellect Data Security and Data Protection Guidelines for Offshoring and Outsourcing;
- Advised an investment bank on the outsource of aspects of its back office functions to India;
- Advised an investment bank on pan-European arrangements for the outsourcing of its facilities management requirements;
- Advised a global services provider on the outsource of its facilities management requirements;
- Advised several insurers and reinsurers on the implications of the EU data protection regime on the underwriting and claims handling process;
- Advised a media business on the provision of video-on-demand services, including content-licensing issues.
Background
- Partner, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, 1997-2006
- Associate, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, 1993-1997
- Associate, Bell Gully, New Zealand, 1991-1993
- Associate, Chapman Tripp, New Zealand, 1990-1991
Membership
- Member, European Advisory Board, International Association of Privacy Professionals
- Member, Society for Computers and Law
- Member, Women in Banking and Finance
Education - B.Com, LLB (Hons), University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 1990
