Christine Young > Herbert Smith Freehills LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP draws on the firm’s wider capabilities across multiple disciplines, including employment, corporate governance, intellectual property, and dispute resolution, to offer a strong full-service data and cybersecurity practice with particular strength in cross-border work. Miriam Everett co-leads the team and has notable strength advising on data protection and privacy issues, and her expertise spans global compliance advice, policy design and implementation, and data retention issues. Co-head Andrew Moir takes point on cybersecurity matters, leading a team that is well-placed to handle cyber breach work, including ransomware attacks, cyber-related litigation, as well as cyber-readiness and resilience. Working alongside them is Christine Young, who handles employment-related data advice.

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP advises on the defence of major multi-party claims before employment tribunals, as well as assisting with the non-contentious employment aspects of sales, mergers and insolvencies, including industrial relations and cross-border employee transfers. The team is led by Andrew Taggart, who has 20 years of experience in employment litigation, industrial disputes and corporate transactional matters. He is supported by Tim Leaver, who also has a mixture of transactional and litigious expertise. Further key names in the team include Christine Young, who heads up the firm’s employment-related data protection and data subject rights sub-practice, and the experienced Peter Frost. Senior associate and barrister Siân McKinley and employee outsourcing expert Jennifer Andrews are also integral.