Giles Pratt

Partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Speaker

Giles Pratt is a partner at Freshfields and heads the firm’s IP and technology group. He also co-heads Freshfields’ international data practice and the firm’s tech transformation and AI initiatives, including the Freshfields TQ platform.

He is particularly active in the tech, media, consumer, automotive and financial institutions sectors, and specialises in cross-border IP, data privacy and cyber security, tech regulatory and commercial law.

He regularly advises on transactions involving valuable technology, content, brands and data, particularly in the context of international M&A, IP/tech-heavy carve-outs and JVs, restructuring, financing, licensing and other complex commercial and IP agreements.

Giles leads the London data practice, advising on the full range of legal issues relating to data, including IP protection and data privacy matters, particularly in the context of deals, crises, investigations, and new data uses and analytics, including AI. He sits on the editorial board of Global Data Review and is the editor and co-author of Global Data Review’s Insight Handbook. He is also a member of the City of London Law Society Data Committee.