Overview
Huw Beverley-Smith advises customers and suppliers on a wide range of international transactions and regulatory issues, including technology, telecommunications and business process outsourcing, complex services agreements, intellectual property ownership and licensing. He counsels clients on privacy and cybersecurity issues and helps navigate regulatory hurdles and operational and commercial risks. Huw is the author of several books and articles on intellectual property and privacy, including "Rights in Data and Information" in the Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law.
International Privacy Compliance
Huw advises on international privacy compliance programs, particularly in respect of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), for U.S. and European clients in numerous sectors, including banks, insurers, IT and telecom vendors, health care providers, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, publishers and retailers.
Huw has advised on email marketing laws (including anti-spam legislation under the e-Privacy Directive) for multiple clients in Europe and the U.S.
International Transactions
Huw advises on strategic contracting and risk issues on international transactions throughout EMEA, the U.S. and Asia for both customers and suppliers. In these matters, he works with multidisciplinary teams of finance, sales, HR, procurement, privacy, security and tax professionals.Related Legal Services
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Credentials
Admissions
Solicitor of the Courts of England & Wales [Solicitors Regulation Authority]
Languages
Welsh
Education
Oxford Institute of Legal Practice
LPC (2002)
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Ph.D. (1997)
Cardiff Law School, University of Wales
LL.B. (1993)
Insights & Events
Latest
Insights
Other Perspectives
- Final Form of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act Endorsed by Member States
Republished in The Global Regulatory Developments Journal, May–June 2024, Vol. 1, No. 3 - The European Commission Adopts Adequacy Decision on EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
Republished in Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Report, October 2023, Vol. 9, No. 8 - UK’s Updated Data Protection Reform Proposals
Republished in Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Report, September 2023 - The UK’s New AI Proposals
Republished in The Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law, September–October 2023 - Österreichische Post: The European Court of Justice Specifies the Requirements for Compensation for Breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation
Republished in Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Report, Vol. 9, No. 6 - AI Regulation in the UK: The New Government Approach
Republished in The Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law, May–June 2023 - A New Government Approach to Artificial Intelligence Regulation in the United Kingdom
Republished in The Journal of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & Law, January–February 2023 - UK Supreme Court Rules in Google’s Favor in Data Privacy Group Litigation with Major Implications for Data Breach Cases
Republished in Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Report, January 2022 - Don’t Bring Me Down – Vendor Management & Cyber Due Diligence
Speaker, Faegre Baker Daniels Privacy and Cybersecurity Summit, November 2019 - We Are the World – Updates from Europe and Beyond
Speaker, Faegre Baker Daniels Privacy and Cybersecurity Summit, November 2019 - In or Out? EDPB Publishes Much-Awaited Guidance on GDPR's Territorial Scope
Co-author, Privacy and Cybersecurity Law Journal, April 2019 - Rights in Data and Information Oxford Handbook on Intellectual Property Law
Author, Oxford University Press, 2018 - GDPR – Key Implications for Accountants
Accountants’ Digest, January 2018 - The State of British Politics After Brexit
Law360, June 28, 2016 - Monitoring Employee Communications: Recent Ruling No Green Light to Spy on Staff
Co-author, Personnel Today, February 2016 - Outsourcing IT: Dealing With Change and Exercising Control
Practical Law, October 2015 - Data Protection and Data Security Issues in Bring Your Own Device Programmes
Information Technologists’ Company, February 2014 - Global IT Leaders Course
Henley Business School, November 2013 - Outsourcing Law and Practice
Law Society, 2010 - Privacy, Property and Personality
Co-author, Cambridge University Press, 2005 - The Commercial Appropriation of Personality
Cambridge University Press, 2002; Peking University Press (in Mandarin), 2007 - Copinger and Skone James on Copyright
Assistant Editor, Sweet & Maxwell, 14th edition, 1999
Firm Blog Contributions
- Discerning Data – a forum that discusses developments in privacy, cybersecurity, information governance and data analytics
Leadership & Community
Professional Associations
- Law Society of England and Wales
Civic Activities
- Liveryman of the Information Technologists' Company, London
Honors
- Pro Bono Recognition List of England & Wales, 2025
- London Super Lawyers — Rising Star in Technology, Media and Telecommunications, 2014