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Helena Engfeldt

Helena J. Engfeldt

Partner
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Biography

Helena Engfeldt helps companies around the world expand their businesses internationally especially by taking privacy law compliance global. She is a partner in Baker McKenzie's International/Commercial Practice Group in San Francisco. She is licensed to practice law in California and New York.

Practice Focus

Helena advises private and public companies (from startups to Fortune 100 companies) on cross-border transactions and international expansion, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, and global data privacy law compliance. Her clients include software developers, e-commerce companies, global mobile and web gaming developers, transportation and healthcare companies and telecommunications providers.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Advised 200+ companies in various industries with GDPR, CCPA, ePrivacy Directive and other privacy law compliance.

  • Advise companies on compliance with privacy laws meant to protect children, including Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act.

  • Assist companies with designing, documenting, and scaling their global data privacy compliance program.

  • Advise online and video gaming companies with data privacy, consumer protection, and regulatory compliance.

  • Advise on data security incidents and responses ranging from company identified vulnerabilities to ransomware attacks.

  • Advise companies on setting up and operationalizing global whistleblower hotlines.

  • Negotiate commercial and data processing and transfer agreements in various industries and contexts (e.g. procurement, M&A).

  • Advise companies on global anti-spam law compliance.

  • Managed telecommunications analysis spanning 40 jurisdictions.

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Certified in U.S. and European privacy law (CIPP/US and CIPP/E) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals

Admissions

  • Washington~United States (2023)
  • California~United States (2012)
  • New York~United States (2012)

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley School of Law (J.S.D. with Law and Technology Certificate) (2013)
  • University of California, Berkeley School of Law (LL.M.) (2009)
  • Uppsala University (Juris Kandidat) (2008)

Languages

  • English
  • Swedish

Publications & Presentations

Baker & McKenzie LLP is a Limited Liability Partnership organized under the laws of the State of Illinois (USA) and is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a Verein organized under the laws of Switzerland.