Ashley Brickles

Ashley Brickles has more than 15 years of experience, specialising in the use of technology to develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for her clients. Ms. Brickles is known for her skill in leading teams of technical experts to drive successful client outcomes, focusing on large, complex, multijurisdictional regulatory investigations and high-profile litigations. She has led some of the most demanding European conduct, collective action and merger-clearance cases over the past decade.

Ms. Brickles bring extensive expertise in solving complex data issues that have become hallmarks in investigations, class action regimes and compliance matters relating to evolving digital and data regulation globally. She is frequently called upon to design and implement defensible strategies to proportionately reduce data volumes and is an expert in emerging data sources such as cloud platforms and collaboration tools. She effectively uses various artificial intelligence and analytic-based technologies to meet tight deadlines and reduce overall legal spend in high-stakes matters.

Ms. Brickles provides advisory support surrounding dawn raid readiness plans, robust litigation hold and data preservation plans, mitigation of cross-border transfers and other data privacy issues that arise in multijurisdictional cases. She also supports clients in establishing effective approaches to analysing non-traditional data sources.

Specialising in high profile, complex cases with large data volumes, Ms. Brickles has expertise with contentious cases, particularly cross-border competition merger control. She has also led investigative and document review activities for numerous UK and European Union-based class actions.

Prior to joining FTI Technology, Ms. Brickles was an associate at a U.S. law firm, where she practiced exclusively on strategic e-discovery consulting and project management in complex civil matters, including antitrust, patent disputes, banking securities and fraud investigations.