Ms Kristin Haram Førde > Bull & Co Advokatfirma AS > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile

Bull & Co Advokatfirma AS
Universitetsgata 9
NO-0164 Oslo
PO Box 6604 St. Olavs plass
NO-0129 Oslo
Norway

Work Department

Privacy; Technology

Position

Kristin Haram Førde provides legal advice within technology and privacy. Throughout her career, she has drafted and negotiated a variety of commercial technology agreements, tailored for use in Norway and abroad. She also assists with all kinds of privacy issues and helps companies in facilitating the processing of personal data in a lawful and secure manner. In addition, Kristin renders advice on questions related to ownership of business-critical data and how companies may secure the value of such data.

She also has extensive expertise with cyber security and assists companies that have been exposed to cyber-attacks with risk-reducing measures.

Kristin’s long career as both an in-house lawyer and outside counsel for technology companies, has provided her with a unique understanding of the IT industry’s “tribal language”, the game-changing technological development that has formed the industry, and contracts for technology deliveries and digitization. This allows Kristin to draft and negotiate technology contracts for customers and suppliers alike, based on her insight into the parties’ needs. Kristin has also assisted in several major national and international IT dispute negotiations.

Kristin is the director of the Privacy Factory (Personvernfabrikken), which is Bull’s website for privacy matters, and together with Kristian Foss, she is the leader of Bull’s Privacy Network.

Kristin is a member the professional committee for Data Privacy in the Norwegian Bar Association. She is a member of the IT IP Law Group Europe, as well as the International Technology Law Association (ITech Law). She regularly gives lectures on privacy and technology matters, and she is considered an inspiring and knowledgeable lecturer. She is a mentor for students and an external examiner for the Masters’ theses in Technology and Data Privacy law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo

Kristin is part of Bull’s crisis management team for Cyber Incidents and Emergency Preparedness.

Career

Partner, Bull, 2016–
Director, Legal Nordics CSC 2014–2016
Principal Lawyer, Legal Nordics CSC 2014
Senior Lawyer, Simonsen Vogt Wiig AS 2010–2014
Attorney, Simonsen Advokatfirma DA 2009–2010
Associate, Simonsen Advokatfirma DA 2006–2009
Senior Legal Manager, Oracle Norway AS 2004–2006
Legal Manager EMEA, Advent Software 2002–2004
Legal Counsel, Oracle Norway AS 1998–2002

Education

Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Oslo, 1998
IT contracts, Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law, 1998
Intellectual property law, 1996

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > TMT

At boutique technology firm Bull & Co Advokatfirma AS, Lisa Digernes oversees a ‘sharp and attentive‘ team with a strong track record in advising clients in the media and entertainment industry on the full range of mandates. Digernes acts for production companies, directors and writers, advising on distribution agreements, clearance issues and rights negotiations. Data protection advice constitutes a core pillar of work for the team, with the ‘extremely competentKristin Haram Førde and Kristian Foss leading on matters in this area. Christian Bendiksen joined the practice from Brækhus Advokatfirma DA in late 2023.