Mrs Kari Gimmingsrud > Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile

Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS
Haakon VIIs gate 10
PB 359 Sentrum
Oslo
NO-0101
Norway
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Work Department

TMT, data protection, compliance, employment

Position

Kari Gimmingsrud is head of the Technology, Media and IPR practice and also leads Haavind`s data protection team.

Kari specialises in data protection, cyber security compliance and technology law. She advises companies and public authorities within a variety of sectors, and has long experience with large projects in the intersection between data protection, commercial agreements and legislation covering national security, employment, health, finance and consumer protections.

Her practice also include assisting clients with other regulatory and ICT issues such as artificial intelligence, electronic marketing and e-privacy.

Kari also has extensive experience with employment law and assists clients with employment law matters, compliance and governmental or internal investigations,.  Kari has previously worked as a compliance manager and legal advisor in Telenor. She applies her experience by assisting several major Norwegian and global technology companies in Haavind’s client portfolio.

She is active in the Norwegian Bar Associations committee for ICT and privacy and is a co-author in the commentary edition of arbeidrett.no. She is both supervisor and examinator at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo and often holds lectures for the Lawyers’ Education Center.

Career

2008 –
Advokatfirmaet Haavind

2021
Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E)

2018 – 2019
Metier – Course in Project Management and Motivational management

2006 – 2007
Compliance Manager and legal advisor Telenor

2001 – 2005
Advokatfirmaet Haavind

Lawyer Rankings

Norway > TMT

(Leading individuals)

Kari GimmingsrudAdvokatfirmaet Haavind AS

Regularly acting for governmental entities and leading Norwegian corporations, Advokatfirmaet Haavind AS is praised by clients for its ‘very strong understanding of the IT sector‘. Leif Eirik Thrane oversees the team and advises leading Norwegian companies on large IT outsourcing transactions and M&A in the tech sector, ably assisted by senior associate Isak Mendoza; the duo attracts praise for their ‘great understanding of technology’. Arne Byberg is the key contact for contract work in the tech industry, while Andreas Bernt takes point on media matters. Data privacy and information security work is handled by Kari Gimmingsrud.