Jacqueline Clover

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Overview

Jacqueline Clover is a partner in Kirkland’s Technology & IP Transactions Practice Group, based in the Firm’s London office. She advises private equity sponsors and companies on the technology, intellectual property, data and artificial intelligence aspects of complex, high-value corporate and commercial transactions.

Jacqueline’s practice spans the full deal lifecycle, including buyouts, carve-outs and business separations, add-ons, exits, joint ventures, strategic alliances and restructuring transactions. She is highly experienced in structuring and negotiating agreements that support transaction execution as well as commercial agreements, including long-term and transitional services agreements, intellectual property agreements and licences, data sharing and transfer agreements, collaboration and development agreements and manufacturing and supply agreements.

Jacqueline works across a wide range of industries, including software and digital infrastructure, life sciences, consumer products and services, e-commerce, advertising, media and entertainment, telecommunications, financial services and insurance.

In addition to her transactional work, Jacqueline advises on data protection compliance and data breach incident response and emerging regulatory frameworks around artificial intelligence.
Before joining Kirkland, Jacqueline trained and practised as a life sciences lawyer at another U.S. law firm. She also gained in-house experience on secondment to the legal team of a major multinational technology company.

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Thought Leadership

Publications 

Co-author, “The Metaverse IRL – EUIPO Refuses to Register ‘METAVERSE FOOD’ and ‘METAVERSE DRINK’ as EU Trade Marks for Real-World Goods”, Entertainment Law Review, 2023

Co-author, “Lloyd v Google: Supreme Court Ruling Sheds Light on UK Data Protection “Class Actions”,” Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, 2022 

Co-author, “Scott v LGBT Foundation Ltd: Do Phone Conversations Amount to "Processing" of Personal Data?,” Entertainment Law Review, Volume 31, Issue 6, 2020

Co-author, “Is Your Video Surveillance Legitimate under EU Data Protection Rules?,” Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, Volume 26, Issue 6, 2020

Co-author, “Schrems Strikes Again: EU–US Privacy Shield Suffers Same Fate as Its Predecessor,” Computer and Telecommunications Law Review, Volume 26, Issue 6, 2020

Schrems Strikes Again: EU-US Privacy Shield Suffers Same Fate as its Predecessor,” Kirkland & Ellis Alert, 2020

Co-Author, “Google LLC v CNIL—CJEU Rules on the Territorial Scope of the 'Right to be Forgotten',” Entertainment Law Review, Issue 2, 2020

Seminars

“EU and UK Data Protection”, Sun Capital Advisors Meeting, June 2024

“EU Cyber Regulations: A Europe Fit for the Digital Age”, Sun Capital Advisors Meeting, June 2024

“The GDPR four years on – from here to where?”, Sun Capital Advisors Meeting, June 2022

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2014, Admitted to practice as a Solicitor of England and Wales
  • 2012, New York

Languages

  • English
  • Mandarin

Education

  • BPP Law SchoolLegal Practice Course2012
  • University of ChicagoLL.M.2010
  • University of CambridgeB.A., LawHons2006