Racheal is a dynamic barrister with an impressively diverse commercial practice.
She is an expert at the intersection of new and emerging technologies and the law both domestically and internationally across:
- Artificial intelligence, particularly Generative AI (GenAI) including Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)
- Cryptoassets (including cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens, or ‘NFTs’)
- Cyber security
- Data Analytics
- Data protection
- Decentralised Autonimous Organisations (DAOs)
- ‘Deepfakes’
- Database rights
- Distributed ledger technology (DLT), including the legalities of establishing and operating private permissioned blockchains
- ICOs of digital currencies
- Internet of things (IoT)
- Quantum Computing
- Ransomware attacks following data exfiltration
- Smart contract programming
- Software disputes
Throughout 2023, Racheal has advised FTSE 100 and other corporate clients with regards to their AI governance in readiness for the anticipated entering into force of the EU’s ‘AI Act’ and AI Liability Directive. Further, she has advised on and spoken at leading AI conferences on the copyright infringement and data protection issues inherent to GenAI applications, including LLMs, and how producers of such models can mitigate the risks of liability.
Racheal is an internationally recognised leading practitioner in the field of cryptoassets for which she is ranked as a Leading Band 1 Junior by Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners 2024. Some of her career highlights to date include:
- Representing an institutional client at the heart of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange insolvency.
- Securing the World’s first injunction to freeze misappropriated NFTs in the widely publicised Osbourne v Persons Unknown.
- Obtaining an order for service by NFT – a first in England and Wales and only the second in the World.
- Being instructed by Dr Craig Wright in his passing off claim against cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase and Kraken, in the single highest-value intellectual property cryptoasset claim to date.
- Advising a leading international auction house on its first NFT auction in 2020.
The common thread running throughout is the provision of comprehensive targeted advice and representation on the development, purchase, sale, management, audit and recovery of high value assets, ranging from high value ‘flat’ and digital art and cultural antiquities, to data sets and cryptoassets (i.e. cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens or ‘NFTs’).
Racheal also has a thriving Art and Cultural Property Practice for which her expertise has been recognised by her inclusion in the Professional Advisors to the International Art Market (PAIAM) directory. Her experience advising on technological legal matters enables her to bring a commercial edge when advising her Art World clientele.
