Gabriela Kennedy

Practice Areas

Clients leverage Gabriela Kennedy's media, intellectual property, information technology, and telecommunications law experience to help them with technology transactions and solve issues in litigation or data privacy matters.

Data Protection: Gabriela advises extensively on technology and data protection issues in Hong Kong and throughout Asia, particularly in relation to business process outsourcing, the cross-border transfer of data, data compliance, data breaches, and cyber incident responses. She frequently conducts in-depth data audits and devises data privacy management and governance strategies for the Asia operations of a number of multinational companies.

Technology: Gabriela advises on complex technology transactions and projects, technology outsourcing, cloud-computing, mobile payments, smart card projects, the regulation of digital assets, and disputes stemming from failed technology projects. She has been involved in discussions relating to developing strategies and standards for cross-border data transfers.

Media: Clients rely on Gabriela in high-profile media transactions and litigation, leveraging her experience in signal piracy litigation and 'must-carry' and re-transmission rights cases under the Copyright Ordinance. She advises collecting societies on licensing deals and disputes involving royalty fees.

Telecommunications: Gabriela advises extensively on regulatory and transactional telecommunications matters in Asia. She has advised incumbent operators in Asia on the introduction of regulation and the liberalisation of their respective markets.

Gabriela is recognised as a leading lawyer in every field her work covers, and sits on the editorial boards of multiple publications in her respective fields. A former theoretical linguist, Gabriela speaks a number of European languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese.