Vilma Slättegård

Vilma Slättegård is an associate based at Magnusson´s office in Stockholm. She focuses her practice on AI law, intellectual property, technology, and data protection and has been engaged in several assignments providing legal advice to global and Swedish companies, in particular providing in depth analysis in highly regulated sectors such as telecom, Medtech and Fintech.

Vilma obtained her LL.M. from Uppsala University in 2022 where she specialised in IP/IT law and wrote her Master Thesis on artificial intelligence. She also spent an exchange semester at University of Technology Sydney in Australia, primarily studying programming. In 2024 and 2025, Vilma Slättegård was shortlisted by Managing IP for as Rising Star of the Year among non-partners. She is also the co-author of several articles in the field of AI, data privacy, Fintech and IP.

Professional Experience

Magnusson Law Advokatbyrå
Associate, 2023 – to date

Pophouse Entertainment Group
Legal trainee, 2022

Roschier Advokatbyrå
Legal trainee, 2018-2022

Education

• Master of Laws (LL.M.), Uppsala University, 2022
• University of Technology Sydney, 2022

Languages

• Swedish (native)
• English (fluent)

Positions of trust

Member of the Swedish Association for the protection of Intellectual Property (SFIR).

Member of the organisation Young Data Protection Lawyers (Unga Dataskyddsjurister).

Member of the Swedish Association for IT & Law (Svenska föreningen för IT & Juridik).

Rankings

Vilma Slättegård was acknowledged as Rising Star by Managing IP in 2024 and shortlisted for “Rising Star of the Year” among non-partners in 2024 and 2025.

Publications

Vilma Slättegård is frequently engaged as a speaker and is the author and co-author of several publications. Recent publications include:

• Contributor to the Chambers Fintech Global Practice Guide – Sweden, 2025. Link.
• Speaker in seminar on legal challenges and opportunities with generative AI, hosted by Magnusson together with the Australian Business Council of Sweden, 2024.
• Contributor to the Legal 500: Intellectual Property Guide – Sweden, 2024. Link.
• Article on Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), 2024. Link.
• Article on data protection and screening of employees, 2024. Link.
• Speaker in the webinar “The upcoming EU AI Act and how it will affect companies doing business in the Nordics-Baltics”, which also included a section on handling personal data in relation to the GDPR, hosted by Magnusson, 2024.
• Article on the Digital Services Act (DSA), 2024. Link.
• Article on AI and training data, 2024. Link.
• Article on the proposed AI legislation in the EU, published by the Swedish news site Dagens Teknik, 2023. Link.