Harriet Hanks

Harriet Hanks is an experienced litigator with a broad commercial disputes practice. She has particular expertise in the life sciences, consumer products and technology sectors.

Harriet’s experience covers commercial disputes, coordination of multi-jurisdictional litigation including product liability group claims, class actions, regulatory enforcement matters, as well as licensing and post-M&A disputes. Harriet’s work is often cross-border and involves multiple parties.

Harriet also brings to her practice significant in-house (secondment) experience within U.S.-headquartered multinational organizations. She was seconded to a global consumer technology company’s litigation team, and earlier in her career to a medical devices multinational working on product liability and regulatory mandates.

Harriet graduated from the University of Oxford, Worcester College with a first class law degree. She has an LLM from Nottingham Trent which focussed on product liability and regulatory matters. She is former chair of the Freshfields women’s network. Harriet speaks French fluently.