Anna Blest

Anna Blest
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Anna Blest

Anna Blest

Knowledge Counsel


London
Anna Blest
  1. People /

Anna Blest

Anna Blest

Knowledge Counsel


London

Anna Blest

Knowledge Counsel

London

T: +44 (0) 20 3400 4475

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Biography

Anna is the knowledge development lawyer for the Technology and Commercial Group. Her role is to support the team and its clients with technical legal knowledge, provide training and thought leadership and promote know-how across the practice area. Anna is also involved in the promotion of the knowledge of the group to existing and potential clients. Her advisory work covers the full range of work of the Group, including commercial contracts, information technology, intellectual property, data protection and outsourcing. She is part of the firm’s Retail & Consumer Products group and also advises on complex consumer law issues, including e-commerce regulations.

Anna is a contributing author to Financial Regulation: Emerging Themes in 2022 – an extensive collection of articles around the themes of Brexit; Regulatory Change; Regulatory and Litigation Risk; Technology; Governance; and Sustainability and People. Anna also authors the Global preface and UK chapter of Lexology’s Getting the Deal Through publication on cloud computing. She also contributes to the tendering and procurement section of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors isurv website.

Emerging Themes 2025

Emerging Themes 2025

Creating Connections

2025 marks the 15th edition of Emerging Themes in Financial Regulation & Disputes. This year, our overarching theme is Creating Connections, examining three main pillars: Technology, Transparency, and Trust.

Admissions

  • England and Wales

Related Practice Areas

  • Copyrights

  • Food & Beverage

  • Cryptocurrency & Digital Assets

  • General Data Protection Regulation

  • Corporate Carve-Outs & Transitions

  • Marketing & Advertising

  • Intellectual Property and Technology Disputes

  • Outsourcing

  • Retail & Consumer Products

  • Sports & Entertainment

  • Data Privacy & Security

  • Commercial Contracts

  • Technology Transactions

  • Corporate

  • Investigations

  • Litigation & Dispute Resolution

  • Regulation, Compliance & Advisory

  • Healthcare & Life Sciences

  • Sports & Entertainment Contract, Endorsement & Celebrity Representation Practice

  • Anti-Doping Practice

  • Sports & Event Venue Real Estate Infrastructure and Operation

  • Naming Rights & Sponsorship Practice

  • Sports & Entertainment M&A Practice

  • Sports & Entertainment Specialty Counseling Practice

  • Entertainment Industry Practice

  • Sports & Event Financing

  • Olympic & National Governing Body Practice

  • Professional Sports Team Practice

  • Digital Transformation & Emerging Technology

Resources

Publications

Anna is a contributing author to the tendering and procurement section of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors isurv website

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The FCA, PRA, and Bank of England have published their finalised critical third party (CTP) rules (and accompanying guidance) in PS24/16 Operational resilience: Critical third parties to the UK financial sector.[1]The new rules, which come into force on 1 January 2025, will see designated technology providers whose failure is deemed to pose a systemic risk to the UK financial system become subject to new principles-based, outcomes-focused rules and requirements overseen by the financial services regulators. This is timely given the increasing trend in third-party related incidents affecting operational resilience at financial services firms.  On 31 October, the FCA published its “lessons for operational resilience” following its review of the financial services sector’s response to the recent CrowdStrike outage, which noted that third-party related issues were the leading cause of operational incidents reported to it in 2022-2023. This only serves to bolster the regulatory case for the CTP rules, given the risk posed to the stability of financial markets by dependence on a small number of third party service providers.  The new CTP rules sit alongside the wider rules on operational resilience set-out in PS21/3 Building operational resilience, which become fully operational on 31 March 2025.
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