Erica Wiking Häger

Practice Areas

Erica Wiking Häger is the chair of the firm’s Corporate Sustainability and Risk Management 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. 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.

Career

Chairman of the Board, Mannheimer Swartling, 2021-

Partner, Mannheimer Swartling, 2009-

Associate, Mannheimer Swartling, 2000-2008

Corporate Counsel, Corechange, 1999-2000

Law Clerk, Svea Court of Appeal, 1997-1998

District Court Service, 1995-1997

Pro tem. lecturer, Faculty of Law, 1994-1995

Professional Memberships

Swedish Bar Association, 2003

ITechLaw Association, 2007

New York State Bar Association, 2000