Rachel C. Agius

Rachel C. Agius is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's Chicago office and a member of the firm's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice. Ms. Agius represents businesses in commercial disputes at the trial and appellate levels and in arbitrations, including matters pending in international tribunals, foreign courts and U.S. courts. Ms. Agius focuses her practice on complex business disputes, class action defense and arbitration. She advocates for clients through all phases of litigation from pre-suit counseling to appeals across a range of industries, including financial services, energy and natural resources, real estate, media and healthcare.

In the energy and natural resources sector, Ms. Agius has represented energy and energy-related companies in a variety of commercial, product liability and regulatory disputes. She also handles complex business disputes, data privacy litigation, cybersecurity, breach of contract, business torts, fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, commercial landlord-tenant actions and product liability claims.

In addition, Ms. Agius' data privacy practice includes defending clients in class actions involving biometric privacy laws such as the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), as well as advising clients on compliance with data privacy laws nationwide. Ms. Agius also defends clients facing mass arbitration claims, in which a plaintiff's firms gather hundreds or thousands of claims and assert them simultaneously as individual arbitration demands. Her mass arbitration defense practice also includes advising clients on revising privacy policies and terms of use.

During law school, Ms. Agius externed for the Judicial Trial Chambers at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands.