Helena Strand

Profile

Helena Strand is an associate in the London office of Corvane Ryle LLP and a member of the firm's Privacy & Cyber Practice. She advises clients on UK and EU data protection, cross-border data transfers and the response to security incidents.

Helena's work includes regulatory compliance programs, data protection impact assessments and the privacy aspects of acquisitions and technology deployments. She is also active on consumer law questions that overlap with privacy, including subscription and cookie rules.

She works under the guidance of Tomás Ellery-Vance and Priya Raghunathan on matters that span the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United States.

Helena's work falls within the firm's Privacy & Cyber Practice and is particularly relevant to clients in Retail & Consumer Products, Technology and Fintech. Helena is based in the firm's London office.

Experience

Helena's representative matters include the following, many of which are confidential and described in general terms.

• Advised Halvern Retail Group on the UK and EU privacy aspects of its loyalty program, including consent and profiling.
• Assisted in advising Quillon Payments on the data protection framework for its AI-driven fraud detection service.
• Supported the response of a European retailer to a payment card data security incident, including regulator notifications in three jurisdictions.
• Advised Arvelo Health on international transfers of health data in connection with a clinical decision-support tool.
• Assisted in the privacy diligence for Northwall Capital's acquisition of a data analytics platform.
• Advised a global marketplace on its transfer impact assessments and reliance on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
• Prepared data protection impact assessments for an AI shopping assistant deployed by a consumer products group.
• Advised a UK subscription business on cookie consent and direct marketing under PECR and the UK GDPR.
• Supported a financial services group in responding to a subject access request campaign.
• Advised Brightmoor Foods on the data protection terms in its supplier and logistics agreements.
• Assisted a technology company in the review of its whistleblowing and monitoring practices under UK and EU rules.
• Contributed to the firm's tracking of US state privacy legislation for retail and technology clients.

Insights

Helena's recent insights include the following.

• The UK's New Subscription Contracts Regime: Preparing for Implementation, with Priya Raghunathan.
• US State Privacy Laws: The 2026 Compliance Map, with Tomás Ellery-Vance.
• EU-US Data Transfers: Stress-Testing Your Reliance on the Data Privacy Framework, with Sophie Laurent-Brecht.

Qualifications

Bar admissions

• Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Education

• Legal Practice Course, University of Law
• LLB, King's College London