Ring up the latest changes to the sector with Retail Review, the podcast series from Womble Bond Dickinson. In each episode join members from across the firm as they discuss the latest developments and trends in the sector and what they mean to you.
Amy is a Trainee Solicitor based in Bristol, currently sitting in the Commercial (Digital) team where she assists on a broad range of IT and technology projects. Her previous seats have included Banking and Finance and Operational Property.
Christina is our head of retail employment. She has extensive experience advising predominantly employers on the full range of employment law issues from recruitment to dismissal. Her expertise includes managing employee relations issues, change management, outsourcing, business transfers, discrimination issues, tribunal advocacy, restrictive covenant disputes and training. As a dual-qualified, multi-lingual Finnish-English lawyer, she has a particular interest in cross-border employment issues.
She is the client relationship manager for Signet and Colgate-Palmolive as well as a number of our education clients and is the lead employment lawyer for many of our retail clients.
Claire is a commercial real estate specialist and head of WBD's Retail and Hospitality team. She has extensive experience in all aspects of transactions, advising investors, occupiers, and developers from site assembly/development through to letting and on-going asset management.
Claire routinely leads multi-disciplinary and multi-locational teams advising on portfolio acquisitions/disposals, financing and development. Claire has particular experience in retail, transport and logistics, and the hotel and leisure sectors.
Dan advises clients on a wide range of both contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Key areas of expertise include:
Katie is an experienced data and technology lawyer, specialising in data privacy, cybersecurity, digital regulation and technology transactions.
Katie advises clients on a range of data-related issues, including data protection compliance, international data transfer requirements, advising on compliance with cookie laws and direct marketing rules and advising clients on their responses to regulatory investigations led by data protection and consumer authorities. In parallel, Katie advises on large scale technology projects, including advising clients in distress situations and on the renegotiation of IT contracts.
Katie's particular focus and interest is how the development of emerging technologies intersects with data privacy. Katie leads the firm's emerging technologies group and chairs the SCL's IT Disputes Committee.
Tom advises on a broad range of finance transactions, principally acting for institutional lenders and corporate borrowers, having qualified with the firm in 2008 into the corporate finance, banking and restructuring and insolvency teams.
Tom acts for lenders and borrowers in real estate investment and development finance transactions. Tom also acts for lenders and developers on renewables finance projects, including onshore wind farms and waste to energy projects.
In addition, Tom also advised lenders and borrowers on security and intercreditor issues and advisers private investors on security and funding arrangements.