Cécile is a Senior Associate in our Intellectual property and Data protection teams. She has experience in both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters and advises on the protection, exploitation and infringement of copyright, design, patent and trade mark rights as well as passing off. Much of her work has an international element.
Cécile also has expertise in data protection law and is an accredited Data Privacy Practitioner. She advises clients on how to bring their policies and procedures in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and other privacy-related legislation, and in relation to subject access requests, data breaches and enforcement actions taken by the ICO.
Cécile first qualified as a French lawyer after training at a boutique law firm in Paris specialised in intellectual property law. She then qualified as an English solicitor and, prior to joining Collyer Bristow, worked at a Lincoln’s Inn firm advising clients on a broad range of matters from intellectual property to commercial law.
Cécile is a member of IP Soc, the French Chamber of Great Britain and the Franco-British Lawyers Society.