Emma Carter

Emma trained at Magic Circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer spending her last 6 months of her training contract in their Paris office and upon qualification moved to Norton Rose’s Paris office as part of the Project Finance team.

Emma subsequently returned to London went in-house to Sky advising on marketing and commercial matters for over 4 years. She then moved to Diageo where she was Legal Counsel for Western Europe for their Reserve brands, Customer Development and Wine business.

In recent years, she has held the position of Senior Legal Counsel at Selfridges and worked as a senior legal consultant at a number of global companies including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Starbucks.

Emma advises on the full spectrum of commercial, marketing and data privacy law related matters across all sectors with particular expertise in the FMCG and IT sectors. Emma has extensive experience advising on marketing campaigns, drafting terms and conditions and privacy policies as well as drafting and negotiating commercial agreements.

Emma is based in Melbourne Australia and is dual-qualified in both English and Australian law.

Relevant experience includes:

• Advising numerous businesses across all sectors on their commercial contracts, terms and conditions, privacy policies and other associated matters.
• Advising a luxury footwear brand on its website and commercial agreements.
• Reviewing and advising on advertising campaigns for brands such as Sky, Diageo and Starbucks.
• Dealing with Ad Standards complaints.
• Advising an online health provider on setting up their platform, terms and conditions and privacy policy.