Emma Erskine-Fox

Partner, TLT

Emma is a Partner in the Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity team.

She advises on a wide range of data protection, cyber security and e-privacy matters for many different clients. She is well-known as an expert in her field, having been recognised as a “key lawyer” in the Legal 500 UK and named as one of the UK’s top 25 up and coming female lawyers under 40 by Law.com International in 2021.

Emma’s experience covers the full range of data protection issues, including GDPR compliance programmes and audits, data processing and data sharing arrangements, data incident management, international data transfers, data subject rights requests, data protection by design, direct marketing, cookies and adtech, biometrics and AI. She is experienced in advising both businesses and public sector bodies in a pragmatic way that helps organisations to make the most of the data they hold whilst ensuring that they comply with relevant legislation.

Emma regularly speaks at high-profile data protection conferences and contributes to privacy journals, as well as providing client training and chairing panel discussions on a range of subjects, including AI and data ethics, in which she has a particular interest.

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Nicola Fulford

Partner, Hogan Lovells

Nicola Fulford advises clients on the full range of Privacy and Cybersecurity issues from international data transfers and privacy policies to online profiling, marketing consents, impact assessments and compliance strategies. She provides pragmatic, solutions-focused advice, with a good understanding of technology.

Knowing data protection challenges can arise at any time, she guides clients through the regulatory and reputational challenges. Nicola is a trusted advisor to companies, whether responding to breaches, dealing with regulators, negotiating agreements or considering the optimal way to balance data protection risk and business and customer expectation.

Nicola is a member of the LexisNexis Information Law consulting editorial board. She regularly speaks and is published on information law issues and has written sections of key text books.

Nicola has particular understanding of the demands of putting compliant projects into operational practice, having worked in-house for an investment bank and an IT services company and been seconded as Privacy Counsel to a leading Internet company.

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Katie Hewson

Partner, Stephenson Harwood

Katie Hewson leads the firm’s international data protection practice. Clients come to Katie for her skill at helping them make use of their valuable data in a responsible way. She has significant experience advising international clients on digital transactions, innovative advisory projects, investigations, complaints and incidents, across data-rich sectors including tech, financial services, pensions, transport, art and cultural property and life sciences.

Katie's clients benefit from her ability to provide clear, actionable advice on EU and UK GDPR compliance, the EU AI Act and AI governance, EU digital legislation, data contracts, overseas data transfers, data breach handling, data subject rights requests, direct marketing and cookies. Katie holds IAPP AI Governance Professional, Fellow of Information Privacy, CIPP/E and CIPM accreditations. In addition to being a Solicitor in England and Wales, Katie is registered as an Avocat Communautaire with the Paris Bar, which supports her advice on EU data laws.

Known for her pragmatic, personal and dedicated approach, Katie is a trusted partner for organisations seeking to maximise value from their data assets and address regulatory challenges with confidence. She has successfully guided international banks, wellbeing chains, art market participants and major technology companies through complex transactions, investigations and enforcement actions, delivering favourable outcomes in high-stakes situations.

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Victoria Hordern

Partner, Taylor Wessing

Victoria is a data protection, privacy and technology lawyer with over 18 years' experience advising on all aspects of data protection and privacy law. She has advised organisations across various sectors including life sciences, technology, media, advertising, manufacturing and retail.

Victoria has a particular interest in working with data rich organisations and businesses including those collecting and using health data in the biotech, medical device and digital health industries. She supports these companies with pragmatic solutions addressing the additional regulatory burdens of working with sensitive personal data, including in relation to clinical trials and the building of digital products which embed this data. Victoria also advises businesses on the privacy implications of new technologies such as the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI).

Victoria supports many international organisations on pan-European and global data privacy projects, advising on solutions for cross-border data transfers that are so necessary for international business. Her time spent working in Silicon Valley and in-house has given her an additional appreciation for creative data privacy solutions that facilitate clients' product development and geographic growth ambitions.

Victoria frequently helps businesses deal with launching new products/services, outsourcing agreements, data security breaches, all aspects of GDPR compliance and data governance, use of cookies/trackers and whistleblowing schemes.

Victoria has also helped develop new privacy laws, as part of the team that advised the Government of Bermuda on the drafting and implementation of the Bermudian Personal Information Protection Act.

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Laura Linkomies

Editor, Privacy Laws & Business

Laura oversees the whole editorial process from researching, commissioning and managing freelancers to writing about a wide range of legislative and management issues within privacy, data protection and freedom of information. She also assists in conference planning marketing, public relations, and PL&B GDPR Roundtables. Laura joined PL&B as Associate Editor in 1997 for PL&B International Report, and launched the UK Report in 2000. Before joining PL&B, she worked at the UK Information Commissioner's Office as a European Secretariat Officer facilitating co-operation with European Union national Data Protection Commissioners. Laura has also worked as freelance business content writer for Thomson Reuters, and written for several publications in Finland. She is fluent in English and Finnish, and has a working knowledge of Swedish, Italian and German.