Sara Malmgren is a Partner at Eversheds Sutherland in Stockholm, and she heads the firm’s IT department in Sweden. Ms. Malmgren has significant wide-ranging experience counselling organizations on IT, privacy and security, IP, and commercial law. Her clients include primarily national and global companies within the tech industries, such as companies active in the IT, R&D, and engineering sectors.

Ms. Malmgren provides clients with practical business and legal advice on compliance with privacy and security law, including GDPR matters, complex IT-related contracts and internet security matters. She regularly assists clients in assessing privacy risks in corporate and commercial transactions and drafts and negotiates a wide variety of contracts concerning data-related issues. She provides guidance and conducts data protection impact assessments and guides clients in the preparation of their privacy notices, records of processing, and other documentation such as records intended to demonstrate how meet their data protection by design and by default obligations.

Sara also has experience managing security breaches. She regularly assists clients prepare for, immediately respond, and determine their various notification requirements. She defends companies facing regulators investigations, and claims involving privacy, data security and consumer protection.

Ms. Malmgren holds an LL.M. from Lund University (Sweden) and is a member of the Swedish Bar Association. She is a frequent lecturer on privacy law and commercial law and has been a contributor to The Global Privacy and Security Law treatise since 2012.