Madeleine White is a member of the Intellectual Property and Cyber, Privacy and AI practices. Ms. White advises global companies across an array of industries on the intersecting patchwork of global laws that govern privacy and data security, including the EU and UK GDPR. Her work includes advising on data protection compliance projects and strategic counseling, international data transfers (including Schrems II assessments and the latest developments on data transfers from the EEA to the U.S. and other jurisdictions), personal data audits, data breach notification, data subject requests, data protection impact assessments and standard contractual clauses. She also provides strategic privacy and cybersecurity advice in the context of PE and M&A transactions.
Ms. White has extensive experience assisting clients in the asset management, life sciences and media industries, providing strategic advice to clients in such industries in relation to their obligations under privacy and data security laws and their business objectives. She is well-versed in complex privacy issues arising in the ad-tech and fin-tech space and has worked hand-in-hand with clients to develop and implement comprehensive global privacy programmes. She regularly works with other members of Dechert’s global Cyber, Privacy and AI practice to deliver coordinated cross-border advice.
Ms. White also advises across the spectrum of intellectual property matters, counseling clients on both contentious and non- contentious issues. She has experience with brand protection and enforcement, including trademark prosecution and trademark litigation. Her work also includes intellectual property licensing and intellectual property aspects of corporate transactions.
She combines her privacy and intellectual property expertise to assist clients with evolving issues relating to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, advising on matters including new regulatory obligations, key gating issues for proposed AI projects, and AI governance.
She is a regular contributor to Dechert Cyber Bits, a bi-weekly publication on privacy and cybersecurity matters, and otherwise regularly publishes on topics related to privacy and cybersecurity.
Ms. White trained with Dechert and was admitted as a solicitor in September 2016.
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- University of Kent, Law (LLB), 2013, First Class Honours
- University of Law, Legal Practice Course, 2014, Distinction
- University of Oxford, Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice, 2018
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- England and Wales