Cirio Advokatbyrå AB’s practice head Caroline Olstedt Carlström is ‘exceptionally strong in every aspect’ and has over 20 years of experience advising on Swedish and international data privacy and protection matters in the IT, media, telecoms, energy, finance, e-commerce, and healthcare sectors, amongst others. Her experience encompasses international data transfers, regulatory compliance, and product development. David Frydlinger’s outsourcing projects expertise includes data protection matters. IP specialist Hanna Tilus is also a key contact with notable experience in the life sciences sector. Managing associate Josefine Lundström and senior associate Ina Laurell also play key roles in the team.
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‘Caroline Olstedt Carlström has extensive expertise and experience and provides practical and commercial advice aligned with best practice that is easy to implement and use in-house.'
‘Josephine Lunström is very proactive with her responses. Her advice is clear with great attention-to-detail.'
‘Caroline Olstedt Carlström has a very reliable outlook on balancing legal risk with business risk.'
'Jessica Sondell has good competence in data privacy. She is always engaged and available.'
- ‘Caroline Olstedt Carlström is exceptionally strong in every aspect and, as part of this, creates a strong team around her. Her team delivers high-quality and business-relevant work product, promptly and efficiently. Her level of availability is also high.’
- ‘Caroline Olstedt Carlström is exceptionally strong in every aspect of delivering external counsel partnering. I will even say that she is the strongest and most complete external counsel we work with, and this includes partners from the major US, UK and EU firms.'
‘The team offers reliable guidance on difficult issues.'
‘Cirio are highly efficient in producing timely and thorough advice. Their recommendations on strategy are well-rounded, take into account all factors relevant to the client and specifically address the points raised by the client.'
Key clients
- Verisure
- Securitas Direct
- Meta
- Telia Company
- LG Electronics
- Åhléns
- Swedish Police Authority
- ICA Group
- Swedfund International
Work highlights
Assigned as external Data Protection Officer for the Nordic and Baltic regulated Nasdaq entities, acting also as contact person for the supervisory authorities and providing regular and specific advice in a number of different data privacy related matters.
Assigned as external Data Protection Officer for Dustin, acting also as contact person for the supervisory authorities and providing regular and specific advice in a number of different data privacy related matters.
Advised the Swedish Securities Markets Association and its members on data sharing practices, assessments of data protection roles etc in their relation to the Securities Register Center.
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Practice head
Caroline Olstedt Carlström
Other key lawyers
David Frydlinger; Hanna Tilus; Ina Laurell; Josefine Lundström; Jessica Sondell