Francesca Blythe
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.
Francesca was previously in-house counsel at the largest international health and beauty retailer in Asia and Europe. While there, she regularly gave advice on compliance and strategies relating to data protection laws and assisted in the planning and delivery of a global privacy compliance project.