Kate Brimsted
Kate regularly advises clients in Europe and North America on a wide variety of domestic and international data protection matters, such as data export compliance, high value and/or contentious information requests, exploitation strategies for database owners and risk analysis in corporate M&A.
Kate's mixed commercial and contentious privacy practice has clients drawn from a broad sweep of sectors and industries. Increasingly, she is being brought in by clients to manage and defuse potential enforcement action by the Information Commissioner's Office. High stakes subject access requests are a particular speciality. Her enforcement and disputes experience feeds neatly into her compliance and policy practice and she is familiar with running multi-jurisdictional teams of privacy specialists on complex international projects.
Kate is a leading expert on data protection and privacy law at Herbert Smith, a founding member of the firm's data privacy group and is a regular contributor to a wide spectrum of professional journals on topical data protection and privacy, IP and IT issues. She regularly speaks at conferences and has taught at leading professional seminars. Kate contributed two chapters to the Law Society’s highly popular Data Protection Handbook for lawyers.
Kate's data privacy expertise is complemented by her intellectual property practice.
Kate has a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacture and Management and a Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice. She was admitted as a solicitor in 1997. She is qualified as a solicitor advocate.
Credentials
- Chevron: advice on transfers of personal data outside the EEA
- Credit Suisse: compliance advice in relation to requests for personal data by non-UK regulators
- Tata Motors: UK and multi-jurisdictional data privacy advice in the context of the acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover
- Tetley GB: advice on transfers of personal data from the UK to India
- an international investment bank: advising on requests for disclosures of information to non-EEA regulators in relation to an investigation of a former employee for fraud and handling a contentious subject access request made by that person
- advising an international power generation company on the expedited implementation of a global whistle blowing hotline; this included leading the European team of privacy, corporate and employment advisers
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