Kathryn advises on all aspects of data protection and privacy, including data sharing and marketing, the data protection implications of using electronic media, website compliance and social media, transborder data flows and data protection issues in mergers, acquisitions and re-structuring, with particular focus on Financial services and the Fintech sector.

Kathryn's experience

  • Advised the seller of The Centre, Livingston which is one of Scotland’s largest shopping centres with over 160 retail units. The real estate team acquired the property as an investment for this client in 2014.

  • Advising Pomvom on the UK and EU data protection issues associated with the use of facial recognition technology (FRT) in theme parks to allow visitors to purchase via an App the pictures taken of them on rides (replacing the traditional photo booth).

  • Advising Pomvom on the UK and EU data protection issues associated with the use of facial recognition technology (FRT) in theme parks to allow visitors to purchase via an App the pictures taken of them on rides (replacing the traditional photo booth).

  • Advising Clean Growth Investment Management LLP on a new £40 million Clean Growth Fund, which provides venture capital for early-stage clean growth technology start-ups; pioneering carbon emission reductions in power and energy, building, transport, industry and waste.

  • Advised Pomvom UK Limited, a specialist in facial recognition software, on its strategic investment in and acquisition of the business and certain assets of the Picsolve Group, an international provider of imagery capture, distribution platforms and retailing solutions for the leisure, theme park and tourist industries.

  • Advised Sage on its $23 million minority investment in Brightpearl Limited. The investment comprises a mixture of new shares and acquisition from existing shareholders in which other key investors also participated adding an additional $10 million. The investment makes Sage one of the key investors in Brightpearl and dovetails with a strategic partnership agreement between Sage and Brightpearl to invest in and develop cloud based retail software applications with particular focus on the US market.

Credentials

  • 2010
    Joined Pinsent Masons
  • 2008
    Qualified - England and Wales
  • 2006
    BT Global Services, Secondee
  • 2006
    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Associate
  • 2004
    Dundas & Wilson CS (now CMS Cameron McKenna LLP), Legal Assistant in Technology team
  • 2003
    Qualified - Scotland
  • 2003
    Renouf & Co (Brussels), Secondee
  • 2001
    Glasgow Graduate School of Law – Diploma in Legal Practice
  • 2001
    McGrigor Donald, Solicitor
  • 2000
    University of Glasgow – LLB Law with French Language (Hons)
  • 1999
    Universite de Savoie – Diploma of French Law Studies
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Out-Law / Insight by Kathryn Wynn

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