Claudia Berg

Claudia Berg

United Kingdom, London
Partner at Covington & Burling
Profession: Lawyer
Industry: Competition, Regulatory / Enforcement

About:

Claudia is a partner in the London office of Covington & Burling. Prior to joining the firm, Claudia served as General Counsel of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and as Senior Legal Director for Antitrust Enforcement at the UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA). With considerable experience at the CMA and the ICO, her practice covers the full range of behavioural issues, merger control, government investigations and litigation, and the intersection of antitrust and privacy law.

languages

English, German, French

Expertise:

Competition LawData Protection LawPrivacy Tech RegulationEU and UK AntitrustAbuse of DominanceData regulations Merger Control

Experience:

Covington & Burling

Partner at Covington & Burling

January 2025 - Present • London, United Kingdom

Claudia is a competition partner in the London Office. Claudia has strong experience in the technology and life sciences sectors, she advises on the critical intersection between antitrust and privacy, counselling clients on digital regulation in Europe and the UK.

Information Commissioner's Office

General Counsel at Information Commissioner's Office

3 years 7 mth • May 2021 - December 2024 • London, UK

Since joining the ICO as General Counsel, alongside leading the ICO Legal Service in providing advice across the range of the ICO’s work, Claudia has taken the lead on regulatory thinking on the intersection of competition and data protection law, both in terms of casework and public speaking engagement domestically and abroad eg GPA Istanbul, Concurrences Paris and W@Competition London. Claudia is responsible for ensuring the ICO is discharging its legal duties and operating consistently in line with agreed legal risk appetite and informing the way the laws we oversee are developing. Claudia is the head of profession for the lawyers at the ICO, wherever they are positioned in the organisation.

Education:

Kings College, London

LLM

University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne and Sciences Po, Maîtrise en Droit

Law

University of Bonn

Law

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