Alex Keenlyside
UK Guide 2025
Band 4 : Defamation/Reputation Management
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About
Provided by Alex Keenlyside
Practice Areas
Alex’s practice covers defamation, privacy, data protection, malicious falsehood, contempt, breach of confidence and other related areas. His matters frequently involve defending claims brought by well-resourced and often high profile individuals seeking to stifle legitimate criticism.
Recent work highlights include:
- Acting for a leading international news organisation in defending a libel claim brought by a donor to the Conservative Party.
- Defending Orbis Business Intelligence in a data protection claim brought by Donald Trump.
Advising most of the largest global technology companies and various well known internet intermediaries on disputes relating to content available on their platforms. For example, Alex acted for Google on the first two “right to be forgotten claims” to be determined at trial in the High Court, and continues to act for various technology companies (and others) on such matters.
Early in his career Alex acted on a large number of phone hacking disputes, and has also advised clients in relation to contempt, malicious falsehood and harassment.
Career
M.Phil, M.A., University of Cambridge
Qualified 2009
Partner 2019
Publications
Data Protection Top 10
Chambers Review
UK
Alex Keenlyside is a partner at Bristows. He continues to build a reputation in the market for advising across a range of privacy, defamation and data protection matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Alex is an experienced, sharp and strategic litigator in the fields of privacy and media and is a pleasure to work with."
"Alex is extremely bright and a careful, thoughtful lawyer with excellent judgement. He is very client-friendly and clearly trusted to give sound advice.His knowledge of media law is also first rate."
"Alex is an excellent lawyer; he always keeps calm and has invariably proved correct in his legal advice. He also has an empathetic manner."
"Alex is extremely personable, astutely commercial and razor-sharp in his legal analysis."
"Alex is pragmatic, calm and a good strategist. He is the first choice for disputes requiring a deep understanding of tech industry-specific issues."
"Alex is an experienced, sharp and strategic litigator in the fields of privacy and media and is a pleasure to work with."
"Alex is extremely bright and a careful, thoughtful lawyer with excellent judgement. He is very client-friendly and clearly trusted to give sound advice.His knowledge of media law is also first rate."
"Alex is an excellent lawyer; he always keeps calm and has invariably proved correct in his legal advice. He also has an empathetic manner."
"Alex is extremely personable, astutely commercial and razor-sharp in his legal analysis."
"Alex is pragmatic, calm and a good strategist. He is the first choice for disputes requiring a deep understanding of tech industry-specific issues."
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