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Erica Wiking Häger

Erica Wiking Häger is the chair of the firm’s Corporate Compliance and Risk practice group. She is also heading the firm’s data privacy practice (GDPR). Erica has extensive experience of advising clients on a broad range of compliance related matters, such as risk assessments and designing and implementing compliance programs in the areas of anti-corruption and data privacy. She also assists the firm’s clients in carrying out compliance and sustainability (ESG) due diligence in M&A transactions. Moreover, she has extensive experience of performing corporate investigations in connection with regulatory inquiries, whistleblower reports, and adverse media coverage. Erica has more than 20 years’ experience of data privacy and has developed the firm’s data privacy practice. She assists clients with all aspects of data privacy, such as GDPR compliance, data protection in the context of new business models, strategies for global data transfers, including binding corporate rules (BCRs), and global cyber security incidents. She also has extensive experience of advising clients in connection with investigations by data protection authorities. · Mannheimer Swartling

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About

Erica Wiking Häger is Chair of the firm's Corporate Compliance and Risk practice and heads the Data Privacy (GDPR) practice. She has more than 20 years' experience advising on data privacy and a broad range of compliance matters including anti‑corruption programs, ESG due diligence in M&A, corporate investigations, global data transfers (including BCRs) and cybersecurity incident response.

Practice areas

Data PrivacyComplianceCorporate InvestigationsCorporate / M&ATechnologySustainability & ESGFinancial Institutions

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Expertise

GDPR compliance and cross-border data transfers (including Binding Corporate Rules)Designing and implementing anti-corruption compliance programsESG / sustainability due diligence in M&ACorporate investigations, regulatory inquiries and whistleblower mattersGlobal cybersecurity incident responseAdvising in investigations by data protection authorities

Education

  • LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1999
  • LL.M., Uppsala University, 1993

Admissions

  • Swedish Bar Association, 2003
  • New York State Bar Association, 2000
  • ITechLaw Association, 2007

Languages

SwedishEnglish