Biography
Jenna Rennie is co-head of the London Technology Disputes Group. Her disputes practice involves advising and acting for leading global technology companies on a daily basis, on all aspects of digital and social media law.
She is an experienced litigator and has acted for technology clients in matters at all levels of courts, within the UK and internationally. She handles a wide range of high-profile disputes, including contractual disputes, representative actions, judicial reviews, and disputes relating to intermediary liability issues, data protection, consumer protection and the Digital Services Act.
Jenna also has a regulatory advisory practice, advising leading global companies on the ever-increasing range of legislative and related policy issues that impact technology and social media companies. She advises on regulatory compliance and is highly experienced in regulatory engagement and contentious regulatory matters, drawing on her tech experience and previous role as a government legal advisor on matters of public, EU and international law. She counsels various tech platforms on the new wave of legislation that has been introduced globally to regulate online content and AI, including the EU AI Act, the Digital Services Act and the UK's Online Safety Act.
She is the co-editor and EU and UK contributor for Lexology's Panoramic: Online Safety Regulation guide 2026, was the co-editor and UK contributor for Lexology's Panoramic: Technology Disputes guide (2021 - 2025 editions), a key contributor to White & Case's EU AI Act Handbook and was named as a Law.com UK Female Rising Star 2022.
Experience
Representative matters include:
Key partner on the team handling all international prelitigation and litigation matters for a global tech company, including matters implicating international data protection, privacy, defamation, hosting provider liability, intellectual property and consumer protection laws.
Acted for a global technology company in high-profile data protection proceedings in the UK concerning data protection and personalised online advertising.
Acted for two very large online platforms in relation to multiple proceedings brought by the European Commission concerning alleged non-compliance with the Digital Services Act.
Acting as international counsel for an online platform in relation to multiple representative actions brought for alleged breaches of the Digital Services Act in different EU member states.
Advising a range of very large online platforms and intermediary services on regulatory obligations applying across the UK and the EU, including the UK Online Safety Act, Digital Services Act, TTPA and EU AI Act.
Acting for the sellers of a software company in a multi-million pound dispute in the High Court regarding the correct interpretation of earn-out provisions under the SPA.
Advising a consortia regarding a multi-million dollar contractual dispute relating to the ongoing use and maintenance of sub-sea communication cables.
Guest Lecturer, "Dispute Management and Resolution in Major Programmes" MSC in Major Project Management, SAID Business School, Oxford University, July 2019
Speaker "Managing Contractual Risk in Exclusive Economic Zones and Continental Shelves Regulated by Coastal States" 16 May 2019, International Cable Protection Committee's 2019 Plenary, San Diego
Speaker, ABIE-Franco-British Chamber BREXIT Breakfast panel discussion, 9 April 2019, Paris
Editor of "Getting the Deal Through: Technology Disputes", 2021 and 2022 editions, Lexology
Co-author of "Global Overview" and "United Kingdom" chapters of Getting the Deal Through, Technology Disputes, 2021 and 2022 editions, Lexology
"Trending: Legal protection for cryptoasset stakeholders" 22 May 2020
"Recovering the ransom: High Court confirms Bitcoin status as property", 10 Feb 2020
"Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: A Cross-Jurisdictional Comparison of Regulatory Developments", January 2020 (with Laura Smith, Phoenix Kushner, Christian Theissen, Natalia Filandrianou, Steven Baker, Bijal Vakil)
"Status of cryptoassets and smart contracts under English law", 28 November 2019
"Tech disputes adjudication: A new forum for dispute resolution", 10 October 2019
"'No deal' Brexit Plan of Action", 14 January 2019
