Biography
Hannah advises on the intellectual property, information technology and data protection considerations in complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including disposals, carve-outs, private M&A and investments. Hannah has broad experience advising on a range of data protection matters, including on data breaches and incident response, legality of data processing, privacy due diligence, data sharing arrangements and cyber security. Hannah also has extensive experience advising on brand protection and licensing, including preparing brand licence agreements, prosecuting trade mark applications and enforcing IP rights against third parties. Hannah also advises on broader commercial contractual matters and the carve-out and separation of business units from companies.
Prior to joining Weil, Hannah was an associate in the IP team of an international silver-circle law firm in London and Sydney, Australia.
Representative experience includes advising:
- Cobham (a portfolio company of Advent International) on the carve-out and sale of its Aviation Services Australia, National Jet Express, Cobham Holdings Inc. and Cobham Aerospace SAS
- Brookfield Asset Management on a range of international privacy, cyber security and data protection matters
- Advent International in its sale of Tag Worldwide Holdings Ltd., a provider of content production services, to Dentsu Group Inc., a provider of advertising and communication related solution services
- Advising a client on the investment in, and securitisation of, TV franchise assets
- Providence Equity Partners on a range of data privacy issues
- Major regulated global business on data breach incidents and data sharing arrangements
- A&M Capital Advisors Europe in its acquisition of IB Group Ltd (United Kingdom), a distributor and manufacturer of sweet and savory snacks, from Sculptor Capital Management and certain members of Management
- Various companies on compliance with UK data privacy laws including in respect of internal policies and procedures as well as external data sharing arrangements
- Advent International on a partnership with the founder of the Parfums de Marly and INITIO Parfums Privés niche fragrance brands
- Global Infrastructure Partners on the sale of a 50.01% stake in Edinburgh Airport to VINCI Airports for £1.27 billion
- Providence Equity Partners and existing shareholders on the sale of Tes Global
- S&P Global, Inc in respect of its resourcing of information for its energy and commodities platform, S&P Global Platts
- Various companies on compliance with UK and European data privacy laws including in respect of internal policies and procedures as well as external data sharing arrangements