Chloe Deng is a Partner in Osborne Clarke’s Commercial practice, based in London. She focuses on consumer digital regulation, online platforms and product counselling.
Chloe has extensive experience in:
• leading and managing complex international legal compliance projects;
• strategically planning and launching international online products and services; and
• product counselling.
She advises online media and platform clients on a broad range of digital regulatory and compliance matters, including advertising and marketing, consumer protection, data protection and privacy, digital fairness, e-commerce (including marketplace platform compliance), online safety and platform-related issues. Her technical expertise means she is well placed to support product counsel working on consumer-facing digital products and platforms.
Having completed multiple client secondments, Chloe understands the need to balance legal compliance with commercial reality, and always seeks to provide clear, concise, and practical advice that is easy to use.
At Osborne Clarke, Chloe leads both the international Product Counsel initiative and the international Digital Regulation Knowledge group, and helped develop the Digital Regulation Timeline. She is ranked in the Legal 500 as a Next Generation Partner for TMT (Industry Focus) and Digital Content & Social
A first class technical lawyer... She never misses a trick and is always on the ball, keeping pace with legislative changes and guidance in real time.
With expertise in advising multinational platform businesses, technology companies, telecoms operators, and infrastructure providers, Osborne Clarke LLP’s TMT team is commended by clients for its ‘commercial and pragmatic approach’.
Social media platform subscription
Providing strategic advice on the structure and launch of an international subscription product in the UK and multiple EMEA and APAC countries, with a focus on consumer protection, data protection and subscription law compliance and in a very difficult regulatory environment.
Social media e-commerce platform
Leading the launch of a new international e-commerce platform service, advising on consumer law compliance (including dark patterns and digital fairness) and platform compliance under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Social media and metaverse company
Advising on multiple international digital regulatory compliance projects across various products and platforms. Focus areas included video-sharing platform regulation under the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS) and the Digital Services Act (DSA).
International e-commerce site launch
Advising a leading entertainment company on e-commerce compliance strategy for a multi-country site launch. This included working with local counsel in high-risk jurisdictions and leveraging AI legal tools to streamline compliance across other markets.
International media company app launch
Advising on compliance strategy for the global launch of a consumer media app encompassing video, news and other content, taking a pragmatic approach to cross-jurisdictional requirements.
Agentic e-commerce product on social media platform
Advising on the regulatory framework applicable to an agentic e-commerce product on a social media platform, including consumer law, the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Platform-to-Business Regulation (P2B).
