Ann HENRY

Ann is a partner based in Bird & Bird’s Dublin office. She has been ranked as a "Leading Individual" in Dispute Resolution in Ireland for many years; Legal 500 2022 noted that she is recognised particularly for her role in a number of major patent disputes and data breach cases. In recent years she has successfully led some of the most complex Commercial Court cases in Ireland in both patent litigation (e.g. Apixaban) and data privacy (e.g. Schrems II).

She has practised in both areas for many years. She was a co-founder of the Data Protection and Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Society of Ireland and was Chair of the committee for 2016 to 2018 which coincided with the introduction of GDPR. Ann was appointed by the Government to the Data Forum which sat in the Department of An Taoiseach and considered data related issues relevant to Irelands digital economy and was also a member of the steering committee for the successful inaugural Dublin Data Summit held in the National Convention Centre in 2017 with 1000 attendees and an array of international speakers.

She has been involved in a broad spectrum of intellectual property disputes as regards trade marks, breach of copyright as well as patent litigation. The sectors she focuses on tend to reflect Ireland's FDI economy: pharmaceutical, technology, retail and financial services.