Karin Faxen Ågrup was, until 2 September 2024, Mannheimer Swartling’s Chief Legal Officer, responsible for quality and risk management, including regulatory and legal matters concerning the firm’s operations. Karin now works as a Senior Compliance & Risk Advisor, providing advice on various regulatory and insurance-related matters, as well as issues concerning professional ethics to the firm’s employees. Under the auspices of the Swedish Bar Association, she has been educating lawyers on anti-money laundering legislation for many years and has co-authored the association’s guidance for lawyers on the Act on Measures against Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism.
Karin Faxén Ågrup
Senior Compliance and Risk Advisor, Stockholm
- Experience
- Senior Compliance and Risk Adviser, Mannheimer Swartling, 2024-
- General Counsel, Mannheimer Swartling, 2014-2024
- Head of Compliance and Risk, Mannheimer Swartling, 2005-2024
- Head of Knowledge Management, Mannheimer Swartling, 1996-2005
- Company Lawyer, Norstedts Juridik, 1995-1996
- Associate, Mannheimer Swartling, 1990-1995
- Service at Swedish Courts, 1986-1989
- Associate, Reid & Priest, New York, 1985-1986
- Assistant in Jurisprudence, Stockholm University, 1981-1982
- Education
- LL.M. (Stockholm University, 1985)
- Memberships
- Swedish Bar Association, 1996
- Languages
- Swedish
- English
- French