Vera Jungkind

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Hengeler Mueller

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Vera advises German and international companies on all aspects of public and regulatory law with a particular focus on data protection.



Her longstanding experience covers data protection in M&A transactions, internal investigations, regulatory proceedings and international litigation as well as international data transfers, data breaches and authority proceedings.



Selected recent activities of 2019/2020 include continued advice to numerous international companies on GDPR implementation projects, a Swiss financial services provider on the applicability of the GDPR on Swiss business operations as well as on joint control, an international automotive supplier on its duties to keep records and to erase data as well as on an approach to erasing data as well as various listed companies on shareholder data protection rights, particularly in the lead-up to and during general meetings.

 

In company transactions, Vera has provided assistance to an insurance group regarding the separation of data in the course of the sale of a subsidiary, an energy company regarding data transfers to the acquirer and to the European Commission in the context of a merger control procedure and regarding the separation of data from the parent company and a credit institution on data transfers in anticipation of a merger of a subsidiary to the parent company.

 

Contributions by Vera Jungkind

  • Where Is the Happy Medium? Privacy and Competing Equities
    Moderator at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2023
  • Making Two Out of One: War Stories from a Global Company Separation
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2022
  • The Elephant in the Data Room — Privacy Challenges in M&A Transactions
    Web Conference Speaker
  • Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2020 - Cancelled
  • Keep Vendor Risk Under Control
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: Deutschland 2020 - Cancelled
  • Breaking Enforcement Silos: Data Enforcement by Financial and Market Authorities
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2019