Julia L. Hemmings

Julia advises on a broad range of matters including consumer protection compliance, e-commerce and platform regulation issues with a focus on consumer transactions, particularly in the retail sector and on the technology side of fast-moving consumer products. She has extensive experience of advising and negotiating supply chain agreements including distribution and agency.

• Providing strategic advice to international retailers on their EU rollout of both online and retail consumer sales channels, including commercial agreements, recent changes to the UK & EU legislative framework for consumer protection, marketing/advertising regulations and privacy issues.
  
• Assisting clients with UK CMA and EU CPC consumer regulatory investigations, most recently in relation to green claims, subscriptions, fake reviews and the enforcement of consumer protection laws in the use of generative AI.
  
• Advising on the regulation of retail sales across EMEA including website compliance, pricing practices and promotional activities regulations for digital platforms and luxury goods retailers.
  
• Advising on local compliance issues on a global basis with particular focus on highly regulated sectors including F&B, finance, alcohol and ESG.

• Legal 500 – Tier 1 – Leading Individual for Commercial Contracts
• Ranked for Commercial Contracts in Chambers UK 2025

• The City of London Law Society Commercial Law Committee - Member

• Sydney