Christopher Kuner

Partner

Contact

  • Brussels
    p+32 2 643 58 56
    f+32 2 643 58 22
  • Brussels
    p+32 2 643 58 56
    f+32 2 643 58 22

Christopher Kuner provides strategic and legal advice on European and international data protection and privacy law for companies doing business in Europe and around the world.

Mr. Kuner's practice focuses on data protection and privacy compliance projects for multinational clients. He also counsels and represents companies in their dealings with national data protection regulators and the Article 29 Working Party.

He was listed as a "leader in his field" in Chambers Global 2006-2008 and 2010, and was named the "go-to person for EU privacy" in the Computerworld survey of "The best Privacy advisers in 2008" for the second consecutive year.

A frequent speaker, he is author of the books "Internet für Juristen" (Verlag C.H. Beck 1996 and 1999), "European Data Privacy Law and Online Business" (Oxford University Press 2003), and "European Data Protection Law: Corporate Compliance and Regulation" (2nd ed., Oxford University Press 2007), a Chinese version of which was published in 2008 by Law Press China. The author of over 40 legal articles in English and German, Mr. Kuner is the editor-in-chief of the journal International Data Privacy Law published by Oxford University Press.

Relevant Experience

  • Successfully negotiated the European Commission's adequacy decisions regarding the standard contractual clauses for controller-to-controller transfers (2004) and controller-to-processor transfers (2010); drafted BCRs application checklist approved by the Article 29 Working Party (2007).
  • Represent clients in numerous negotiations with the European Commission, the Article 29 Working Party, and European data protection authorities. For example, successfully negotiated guidelines on merchant fraud databases for the payment industry with the Article 29 Working Party, and assisted with the safe harbor membership of SWIFT.
  • Assist multinational clients in complying with requirements of European data protection law, such as drafting data transfer agreements, joining the US safe harbor system, adopting binding corporate rules (BCRs), dealing with employee data issues, and performing data protection audits.
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