LAUREN CUYVERS focuses her practice on compliance, regulatory enforcement, and litigation related to EU data privacy, digital and cybersecurity laws, with a focus on legislation related to AI. This includes the EU AI Act, GDPR, EUDPR, ePrivacy Directive, EU Data Act, EU Digital Services Act, the EU Product and AI Liability Directives, NIS2 Directive and DORA. Lauren assists clients in a range of industries, but has a particular focus on the tech industry.
Drawing on her experience advising clients on GDPR and other global compliance projects, she assists clients with the development and implementation of novel global AI and digital data compliance projects. She has also gained experience counselling clients on EU telecoms and electronic communications issues as well as IP and EU data privacy transactional work. Lauren advises clients in a range of industries, including in the technology, payments, energy, media, and life sciences sectors. She has particular experience and interest in assisting cloud, social media, AI, software, cybersecurity, and other digital service and platform providers with the application and interpretation of the EU digital data, AI, and cyber laws, as well as client representation in regulatory investigations and enforcement. Lauren’s practice also encompasses cyber risk management and global incident response.
Lauren regularly publishes and speaks at conferences on the new EU digital data, AI and cyber laws as well as AI such as the IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2024 and the IAPP AI Governance Global Europe 2025 Congress. She was recently quoted in Law.com and Law360 in relation to the EU AI Act.
Legal 500 UK 2023 recognizes Lauren for Data Protection, Privacy, and Cybersecurity.
Lauren is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/EU and recently served a two-year term as an EU advisory board member at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
Prior to joining Sidley, Lauren was an associate in the IP and data protection practices of other international law firms based in Brussels, where she advised and litigated for clients in the life sciences, technology, and media sectors, focusing on IP (patents), data privacy, and TMT matters. In 2014, Lauren served as an assistant attaché at the Permanent Mission of Belgium to the United Nations in New York and obtained an LL.M. in EU Competition and IP law.
She is fluent in Dutch, English, and French.