Francesca Blythe

Practice Areas

Francesca Blythe advises international clients on a wide range of privacy, cybersecurity, and emerging technology issues (including AI). She has in-depth experience across multiple industries, including financial services, technology, retail, e-commerce, and manufacturing. Francesca has a particular focus on life sciences, where she advises on a broad range of issues in relation to clinical studies/investigations, secondary research, and digital health. Francesca advises clients on their privacy and cybersecurity compliance strategies, and has counselled clients in preparing for, and responding to, data breaches of varying sizes. Francesca co-leads Sidley’s benchmarking group for in-house data privacy professionals (dplegal) in the life sciences sector and Sidley’s Women In Privacy networking group. Francesca was previously in-house counsel at the largest international health and beauty retailer in Asia and Europe.