Global Roadshow: Product Compliance & Sustainability | London
March 5th 2026| 9.00AM-12.30PM | LONDON
As global product regulations continue to expand in scope and complexity, organizations must strengthen their approach to product compliance across design, manufacturing, and supply chains. This exclusive, in-person event marks the next stop of The Global Roadshow: Product Compliance & Sustainability, focused on helping businesses navigate evolving regulatory requirements with confidence.
Join product compliance, regulatory, and risk professionals as we examine the regulatory, legal, and operational implications of key EU product regulations. From Digital Product Passports and Extended Producer Responsibility to Chemical Restrictions, Right to Repair, RoHS, and lots more this session will explore how compliance obligations are converging—and what this means for products placed on the market.
Engage in expert-led presentations, practical discussions, and an interactive Q&A session designed to provide clarity on regulatory expectations, highlight areas of risk, and support informed decision-making across product portfolios and supply chains.
Prepare to be informed, equipped, and ready to navigate the future of product compliance—while understanding how sustainability requirements increasingly intersect with regulatory obligations.
See the full agenda here.
Speakers
Chelsea Cunningham, Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist & KP Cordinator
Chelsea has been with the Global Regulatory Compliance Team since 2019. She holds a BCL in Civil Law and an MSc in International Public Policy & Diplomacy from University College Cork. She has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors, overseeing and managing regulatory developments in a number of areas such as artificial intelligence and ecolabeling.
Chelsea is based in London and heads up Compliance & Risks’ Knowledge Partner Network, a select network of world-class law firms, leading engineering & environmental consultancies, industry experts, and supply chain specialists delivering expert insights on product compliance.
Chelsea consults both internally and externally on a number of regulatory areas and is currently an external researcher at the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP).
Michelle Walsh, Senior Team Leader, Global Regulatory Compliance Team, Compliance & Risks
Michelle is a Senior Team Leader at Compliance & Risks, where she manages a team of senior legal experts. An Irish-qualified lawyer with over 16 years of experience in global environmental and product regulation, she is currently based in Belgium.
Michelle has a particular interest in sustainability and is a subject matter expert in circular economy, eco-design, energy efficiency, and sustainable resource use. Her expertise also covers WEEE and the transboundary movement of hazardous waste. She leads numerous projects on global legislation and provides detailed analysis of complex legal queries, with a strong focus on delivering high-quality research and regulatory insights.
Michelle holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from University College Cork and a Higher Diploma in Business Finance and Information Systems. She qualified as a lawyer in 2007.
Sarah-Jane Dobson, Partner, Global Head of Product Liability, Safety and Compliance, Ashurst
Sarah-Jane is a partner in Ashurst. She is an international products lawyer, acting on regulatory, litigious, and policy matters across the full product life cycle in respect of product safety, compliance, and product liability issues.
Her practice is focused on multi-jurisdictional matters for corporate clients across a range of sectors, including consumer goods, cosmetics, chemicals, food and beverages, life sciences, industrial and regulatory compliance, and global product recalls.
Her product liability work includes managing large portfolios of international product liability claims, advising on product safety, inquests, public inquiries, judicial reviews, and anti-competitive practices and advertising. Her policy work has focused on assisting clients responding to legislative change, including Brexit, change of regimes (medical devices), and new legislation (collective redress and product sustainability. She has advised clients in respect of submissions to lawmakers regarding a proposed change.
Thomas Panter, Senior Associate Product Liability, Safety and Compliance, Ashurst
Thomas is a senior associate in the Product Liability and Regulatory Risk practice of the Disputes, Investigations, and Advisory division in Ashurst. He has a broad practice covering general commercial and civil litigation (including group/class actions), regulatory compliance, and investigations. He has acted for a diverse range of corporate clients, including those within the technology, E-commerce, consumer goods, food, tobacco, life sciences, industrial, and automotive industries.
Thomas’s work has an international focus and touches upon the full product lifecycle, including product launches, ongoing regulatory compliance, including advertising issues, enforcement proceedings, supply-chain disputes, recalls, and litigation, including group/class actions. He has worked on matters of the highest complexity, including multi-jurisdiction issues with the largest spanning more than 190 jurisdictions and some of the most significant group (“or class”) action disputes before the European courts.
