Mathilde is an Associate in Carter Ruck's Media Litigation group. Her practice encompasses all aspects of media law.  As part of her defamation and reputation management practice, Mathilde advises both claimants and defendants, individuals and corporations, often acting against multiple defendants.

She represents clients both at the pre-publication stage and after publication, obtaining injunctions, corrections and apologies.

She has acted against private individuals, social media platforms and a variety of publishers including the Daily Mail and MailOnline, the Mirror, Express Newspapers, the Guardian, the Times and the BBC, as well as foreign newspapers in multi-jurisdictional matters. She also deals with complaints to IPSO and assists on media law issues arising in arbitration proceedings.

As part of her privacy practice, Mathilde regularly acts for clients in anonymised proceedings involving misuse of private information, breach of confidence, blackmail and harassment. She obtains urgent injunctions for celebrities, leading business figures, politicians and others, restrains breaches of privacy, and secures the removal of sensitive material from the internet. She advises on confidentiality provisions within settlement agreements, and drafts and advises on non-disclosure agreements.

Mathilde’s data protection practice involves work asserting the Right to Be Forgotten, from the initial stages of online removal of search results and links through to court proceedings against search engines, as well as complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office. She also advises on rights and obligations arising from the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018, including subject access rights.

Mathilde also has experience in contentious and non-contentious intellectual property and information technology cases and general commercial and employment matters.

She regularly publishes expert commentary on recent legal developments, including in the national and legal press.

Mathilde is a member of the Paris Bar and of the Franco-British Lawyers Society and is practicing in England and Wales as a Registered European Lawyer. She speaks fluent English, French and Italian.