• About us
  • People
  • Expertise
    • Sectors
        • Technology, media & communications Technology, media & communications
        • Private Wealth Private wealth
        • Real estate, infrastructure & energy
        • Life sciences & healthcare icon Life sciences & healthcare
        • Aerospace & defence
        • Automotive & mobility
        • Business & professional services
        • Chemicals
        • Consumer & retail
        • Financial institutions & insurance
        • Hotels, hospitality & leisure
        • Logistics & transport
        • Manufacturing & industrials
        • Public services & education
    • Legal services
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Banking & finance
        • Brands & advertising
        • Commercial & consumer contracts
        • Competition, EU & trade
        • Copyright & media law
        • Corporate crime & compliance
        • Corporate/M&A & capital markets
        • Data & cyber
        • Disputes & investigations
        • Employment, pensions & mobility
        • Environmental, planning & regulatory
        • Environmental, social & governance (ESG)
        • Information technology
        • Multi-service
        • Patents & innovation
        • Private client
        • Private equity
        • Projects, energy & infrastructure
        • Real estate & construction
        • Regulation
        • Restructuring & insolvency
        • Tax
        • Venture capital
  • Locations
    • Europe
        • Locations
        • Austria
        • Belgium
        • Czech Republic
        • France
        • Germany
        • Hungary
        • Italy
        • Netherlands
        • Poland
        • Portugal
        • Ireland
        • Slovakia
        • Spain
        • United Kingdom
        • Ukraine
          Groups & regions
        • CEE Turkish Desk
        • French German group
        • Our offices
    • Middle East & Africa
        • Locations
        • Middle East
        • UAE
          Groups
        • Africa group
        • Israel group
        • Our offices
    • Americas
        • Locations
        • Latin America
        • USA
          Groups
        • Brazil group
        • Our offices
    • Asia
        • Locations
        • Asia
        • China
        • South Korea
          Groups
        • India group
        • Japan group
        • Our offices
  • Insights
    • Insights
        • Featured Topics
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Data Centre Expertise
        • The EU Whistleblower Directive
        • German Supply Chain Act
        • Unified Patent Court
          Content hub
        • Global Data Hub
        • Interface: tech, IP and media law
        • Podcasts
        • Synapse
        • Browse All Insights
    • Events
        • In person
        • Online
        • Browse All Events
    • News
        • Media centre
        • Work highlights
        • Firm news
        • Browse all news
  • Careers
  • EN
    • English
    • 中文(简体)
    • Français
    • Deutsch
  • Home
  • People
  • Jo Joyce
Jo Joyce
Jo Joyce

Jo Joyce

Partner

  • London UK
Contact Me Today
+44 20 7300 7000
vCard
Email me Call me
Featured award

Finance Dublin Deals of the Year 2025

Acquisition, SME: Sherweb Ireland Limited's acquisition of MicroWarehouse

Scroll to featured award

Jo is a partner, in our technology, IP and information team. Jo is based in our Dublin office and makes frequent visits to the UK. Jo is a specialist in emerging digital regulation and information rights, with a focus on AI and privacy governance work. Jo co-leads the UK and Ireland cyber security practice and has extensive experience of managing cybersecurity breaches and data and confidential information-focused litigation.

Jo has spent more than a decade of her legal career advising on contentious and non-contentious data and IP matters and she works with clients of all sectors and sizes to develop data privacy and AI strategies. Much of Jo's work involves explaining complex privacy and other legal issues to groups of all ability levels; and in addition to running popular privacy training courses Jo is a leading proponent of our innovative legal design programme, tackling legal problems of all sorts with user focused design-thinking.

Jo supports organisations of all sizes and sectors, with a particular focus on tech, communications and e-commerce clients. 

Jo has been listed as Notable Practitioner by Managing Intellectual Property – IP Stars 2024 and was one of Global Data Review's Top 40 Under 40 in 2018.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Environmental, social & governance (ESG)
Data & cyber
Commercial & consumer contracts
Copyright & media law
Artificial intelligence
GDPR compliance
Contractual, technology, data and IP due diligence in M&A transactions
Drafting and negotiating the full range of consumer (B2C) contracts
Regulatory issues affecting contractual arrangements

Sectors

Consumer & retail
Hotels, hospitality & leisure
Technology, media & communications
Manufacturing & industrials
Private wealth
Machine learning
Adtech
eCommerce & marketplaces
IoT
Games and gambling
Fashion & luxury
Data centres
Into the breach: avoiding, managing, and reacting to cyber threats

Into the breach: avoiding, managing, and reacting to cyber threats

A five-part webinar series looking at cyber security and breach management issues from a variety of angles, with special guest hosts.

Watch now

Read our 2024 report

CV

Since 2025 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2021 - 2025 Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing
2017 - 2021 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2016 - 2017 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2015 - 2016 Associate, Shoosmiths
2011 - 2015 Solicitor, Shoosmiths
2010 - 2011 In-house legal advisor, DHL
2009 - 2011 Trainee Solicitor, Shoosmiths
2023 Admitted as a lawyer, Ireland
2020 LLM Intellectual Property, University of London
2011 Admitted as a lawyer, England, Wales
2009 Legal Practice Course, City Law School, London
2007 Graduate Diploma in Law, Inns of Court School of Law, London
2006 BA Hons Modern History and Politics, University of Oxford

Career

Since 2025 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2021 - 2025 Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing
2017 - 2021 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2016 - 2017 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2015 - 2016 Associate, Shoosmiths
2011 - 2015 Solicitor, Shoosmiths
2010 - 2011 In-house legal advisor, DHL
2009 - 2011 Trainee Solicitor, Shoosmiths

Education

2023 Admitted as a lawyer, Ireland
2020 LLM Intellectual Property, University of London
2011 Admitted as a lawyer, England, Wales
2009 Legal Practice Course, City Law School, London
2007 Graduate Diploma in Law, Inns of Court School of Law, London
2006 BA Hons Modern History and Politics, University of Oxford

Publications

Landmark Decisions of the European Court of Justice, Larcier, 2014, p 45-60
Copyright in conflict with social media, Intellectual Property Magazine, March 2015
Premier League scores a further victory against overseas broadcasts, Intellectual Property Magazine, April 2014
Focus on: Image Rights (two-part series), Intellectual Property Magazine, November 2013
Social Media Scares: protecting your brand, Intellectual Property Magazine, September 2013
Moral Compass: Moral rights in architecture under English law, Intellectual Property Magazine, December 2012

Memberships & Associations

IPSoc

Awards

Finance Dublin Deals of the Year 2025

Featured

Acquisition, SME: Sherweb Ireland Limited's acquisition of MicroWarehouse

Managing Intellectual Property – IP Stars 2024

Notable practitioner

Legal 500 UK 2023

Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity - Ranked: ‘I’ve work closely with Jo Joyce and she is a spectacular professional, with a deep knowledge of privacy, the applicable laws, and with the capability of thinking like a business.’ ‘I appreciate how diligent Jo Joyce is in getting practical advice to me quickly, and Vin Bange has put together a fantastic team of individuals with good knowledge of privacy laws.’

Managing Intellectual Property - IP Stars 2019

Rising star

Top 40 Under 40 - next generation of lawyers

Jo's news & insights

View Jo's insights
Server room corridor
Click here to find out more
Technology, media & communications

The EU Data Act is coming: stay on top of things with our scoping tool

20 May 2025

by multiple authors

Glass.Mapper.Sc.Fields.Image?.Alt
Artificial intelligence

AI literacy and prohibited AI systems under the EU AI Act: entry into force on 2 February 2025

31 January 2025
In-depth analysis

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Global Data Hub

Human threats and artificial intelligence

Jo Joyce looks at the UK ICO's approach to security, safety and robustness.

10 July 2023

by Jo Joyce

2 of 3 Insights

Click here to find out more
View Jo's insights

Related news & insights

Blank Tag on Turquoise Handbag Close-Up
Consumer & retail

Fashion and Luxury Market Update

19 November 2025
Quick read

by Jason Rawkins and Simon Jupp

Click here to find out more
View from below of forest trees
Environmental, social & governance (ESG)

The ICJ climate Opinion and ISDS: mapping new terrain for investment dispute resolution

19 November 2025

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Technology, media & communications

The EC's Digital Omnibus proposal – re-writing the EU's digital rulebook

19 November 2025
In-depth analysis

by Debbie Heywood and Alexander Schmalenberger, LL.B.

Click here to find out more
Solving Puzzle
Brands & advertising

EU General Court in TESTAROSSA: genuine use threshold lowered for second-hand sales

18 November 2025
In-depth analysis

by Adeolu Faniran and Louise Popple

Click here to find out more
Hitting in the target centre
Brands & advertising

Mercedes radiator grille found to be distinctive

18 November 2025
Quick read

by Louise Popple and Ellie Harrison

Click here to find out more
Multicoloured paint pots
Brands & advertising

easyGroup v Premier Inn: Court rejects family of marks monopoly and clarifies section 10(3) protection

18 November 2025
In-depth analysis

by Louise Popple and Moira Sy

Click here to find out more
esg tech
Environmental, social & governance (ESG)

AI, energy and ESG: regulatory considerations for organisations

18 November 2025

by Sasun Sepoyan and Otto Sleeking

Click here to find out more
Close-Up-Of-Shopping-Carts
Consumer & retail

Consumer and Retail in the News

14 November 2025
Quick read

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Close up of lady of justice on orange background
Data & cyber

Provision of a free user account constitutes a ‘sale’ within the meaning of the ePrivacy Directive

14 November 2025
Briefing

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Technology, media & communications

Minors, platforms and harmful content: the approach of the EU, Germany and France

13 November 2025

by Nathalie Koch, LL.M. (UC Hastings) and Julie Dumontet

Click here to find out more
View all insights

Related people

UK
Global
Chris Thornham

Chris Thornham

Partner

London
+44 20 7300 4817
Email me
View profile
Yamin Liu

Yamin Liu

Senior Counsel

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Jessica Thomas

Jess Thomas

Senior Pro Bono Lawyer

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile

Chris Cowley

Partner

London
+44 20 7300 7189
Email me
View profile

David de Ferrars

Partner

London
+44 20 7300 4883
Email me
View profile
Andi Terziu

Andi Terziu

Senior Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Paolo Palmigiano

Paolo Palmigiano

Partner

London
Brussels
+44 20 7300 4138
Email me
View profile
Sally Annereau

Sally Annereau

Senior Adviser

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Kirstie McGuigan

Kirstie McGuigan

Partner

London
+44 20 7300 4296
Email me
View profile
Magdalena Borucka

Magdalena Borucka

Senior Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Full team
Person Placeholder Image

Eve Dunne

Senior Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Leonard Raphael

Leonard Raphael, LL.M. (Krakau)

Senior Associate

Duesseldorf
+49 211 8387 0
Email me
View profile
Donata Enzberg

Donata Freiin von Enzberg, LL.M.

Partner

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
Axel Frhr. von dem Bussche

Dr. Axel Frhr. von dem Bussche, LL.M. (L.S.E.), CIPP/E

Partner

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile

Chao Xuan

Senior Associate

Shanghai
+86 21 6247 7247
Email me
View profile
Toon Rummens

Toon Rummens

Partner

Brussels
+ 32 485 965 663
Email me
View profile
/Taylor Wessing/Images/People/Profiles/France/Bonnel-Damien/Bonnel-Damien-wit

Damien Bonnel

Associate

Paris
+33 1 72 74 03 33
Email me
View profile
Dillan Madhani

Dillan Madhani

Associate

London
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile
Miriam Mundhenk

Miriam Mundhenk

Salary Partner

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
GoulesqueMonaux-Benoit

Benoît Goulesque-Monaux

Partner

Paris
+33 1 72 74 03 20
Email me
View profile
Full team

Meet me at

There are no upcoming events

See all events
Subscribe to our latest insights
  • About us
  • Campaigns and online tools
  • News
  • People
  • Expertise
  • Locations
  • Insights
  • Events
  • Media centre
  • Contact
  • Careers
  • Alumni
  • Data protection & privacy policy
  • Cookie policy
  • Legal and regulatory information
  • Regulatory information on costs
  • Complaints procedure for clients
  • Terms of use
  • Anti-slavery statement
  • Environmental
  • Scam emails

© Taylor Wessing