Valerie Kenyon

She's an experienced litigator, with a focus on product litigation as well as general commercial work. Valerie has a broad client base, including technology and consumer products companies and manufacturers, suppliers, and insurers of consumer products and industrial equipment. The depth of her experience includes advising on matters involving electrical and electronic equipment, connected technologies, cosmetics, toys, tobacco, textiles and apparel, motor vehicles, industrial equipment, and chemicals. She is co-chair of the firm's IoT Working Group and contributed to the AIOTI (Alliance for Internet of Things, initiated by the European Commission) WG07 Report on Wearables.

Technology is influencing all areas of law, including litigation. Valerie works with clients to help them understand their shifting risk landscape, as technology disrupts their industries, and helps them to ensure they're maximising the use of technology to mitigate those risks, whether in compliance programmes or through the use of AI in litigation.

She works closely with other advisors, including test houses, consultants, certification bodies, and other industry specialists (from marketing to engineering). Valerie is a member of a working group invited to engage in the consultation process around the EU Product Liability Directive led by the European Commission.

Valerie edits and writes for the International Product Liability Review, which is a quarterly publication focusing on what's most important to manufacturers, suppliers, and insurers of consumer and commercial products in the realm of product litigation and regulation.