Session 2
Playdates, Paydates and Privacy: The Legal Life of Family Influencers
DATE & TIME
LOCATION
🗓️ Tuesday, August 25 🕐 10:30-11:45
📍 Grand Klimt Hall 1–2
Organised By
Organised by the Intellectual Property, Technology, Media, and Telecommunications and International Private Clients and Family Law Commissions
Description
Family life has moved online – and, increasingly, it is monetised. Family influencers, sharenting and child influencers raise complex cross-border questions at the intersection of family law, privacy and data protection, IP/media and platform law, and private clients / wealth planning. This session will explore the legal and ethical fault lines when creating, sharing, and monetizing content turns family life into a business model, offering a practical, lawyer-to-lawyer discussion on the legal risks arising when personal relationships and online businesses collide.
SPEAKERS
Michelle Seel
Pinsent Masons Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bio
Michelle is a technology lawyer at Pinsent Masons. She specializes in platform, e-commerce, digital consumer and data privacy regulations. Michelle has been seconded to various tech companies such as Meta and Wish and closely works with the digital and e-commerce teams of fashion companies in a managed legal services format. Michelle started her career in the intellectual property field, focusing on music laws.
Julia Pazos
Cescon Barrieu São Paulo, Brazil
Bio
Julia Pazos is a partner at Cescon Barrieu, one of Brazil’s leading full-service law firms, where she focuses on intellectual property, technology, and the digital economy. With more than 20 years of experience, she advises Brazilian and international companies on complex matters involving trademarks, copyright, technology transactions, digital platforms, and emerging regulatory frameworks. A substantial part of Julia’s practice is dedicated to the creator economy, digital marketing, and influencer-driven business models. She regularly advises companies on influencer agreements, brand ambassador programs, licensing arrangements, and co-branding partnerships involving high-profile creators and digital personalities. Her work also includes advising brands and investors on intellectual property protection, monetization strategies, and risk management in campaigns involving influencers and multi-generational endorsement structures. Julia is also actively involved in legal discussions surrounding emerging technologies and digital business models, including AI regulation, platform governance, Web3 initiatives, and digital content monetization. She frequently speaks at international conferences on topics related to artificial intelligence, intellectual property, digital regulation, and the evolving creator economy. Her experience advising global brands, digital platforms, and technology-driven businesses provides her with a practical perspective on the intersection between influencers, digital identity, intellectual property, privacy, and commercial interests in today’s highly connected digital environment.
Kirsten Wesiak-Schmidt
Homburger Zurich, Switzerland
Bio
Kirsten Wesiak-Schmidt is an associate in Homburger’s IP/IT, Data Protection and Litigation teams in Zurich. She specializes in data protection, intellectual property and technology law and represents clients in domestic and international disputes before courts and authorities. Kirsten completed her legal studies at the University of Basel (Dr. iur.), holds an LL.M. from Boston University School of Law, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E).
Lauren Evans
Kingsley Napley London, United Kingdom
Bio
Lauren is a Partner in the Family & Divorce team at Kingsley Napley, an internationally recognised London law firm, advising clients on both complex financial arrangements and children issues, often with a global dimension. Lauren is also a mediator and helps clients to work through the practical and legal issues arising from separation and divorce. Lauren is named as a Next Generation Partner in the Legal 500 and is “Recommended” in Spear’s Family Law Index.
Tomasz Wekwart
. Poland
Bio
.
SESSION COORDINATOR AND MODERATOR
Donata Störmer
clover law Berlin, Germany
Bio
.
Agata Kiełczyńska
KOI Legal Studio Warsaw, Poland
Bio
Rachel is a Managing Associate in the Corporate/Commercial team at WH Partners, where she advises on complex cross-border corporate transactions, including public and private M&A, venture capital investments, debt capital markets issuances and syndicated financing arrangements. Her practice regularly involves advising boards, investors and management teams on governance-sensitive transactions, regulatory risk, disclosure obligations and liability exposure in high-pressure commercial environments. In addition to transactional work, Rachel advises on competition law, merger control and foreign direct investment matters. Her experience spans listed and private companies across regulated sectors, giving her particular insight into the intersection between corporate governance, compliance frameworks, stakeholder pressures and crisis management. Rachel is dual qualified as a Maltese advocate and English solicitor and is Deputy Chair of the Germany-Malta Business Council. She holds a Master of Corporate Law (First Class Honours) from University of Cambridge and degrees in law from University of Malta.