Skip to Main Content
Stephanie Mayhew

Stephanie is a senior lawyer in the corporate group focussing on technology, sourcing and privacy in the Sydney office.

Stephanie focuses on privacy and data protection, cybersecurity, data breach planning and breach response. She has been involved with large cybersecurity breaches involving regulators across multiple jurisdictions in terms of both notifications and investigations. Stephanie regularly reviews privacy and data agreements to identify risks and to build and develop organisation's privacy practices to mitigate any potential privacy and cybersecurity risks and to ensure organisations are equipped with the strategies and knowledge to deal with privacy issues. Stephanie also enjoys assisting and advising marketing teams on their communications and spam considerations. Having worked with a number of government agencies, particularly the Home Affairs, Services Australia and Department of Agriculture divisions, Stephanie has both worked within these agencies on secondments and worked on complex privacy impact assessments and advices involving understanding the complex secrecy provisions relevant to these portfolios.

Prior to joining K&L Gates, Stephanie worked as an associate at an Australian law firm. This included a secondment to the Department of Home Affairs' Information Law team and Services Australia's Privacy Programmes Branch.

Stephanie has also worked as a regulatory officer (legal) at the NSW Information & Privacy Commission and as an assistant review & investigations adviser (legal) at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).

Additional Thought Leadership Pages
Additional News & Event Pages
Return to top of page

Email Disclaimer

We welcome your email, but please understand that if you are not already a client of K&L Gates LLP, we cannot represent you until we confirm that doing so would not create a conflict of interest and is otherwise consistent with the policies of our firm. Accordingly, please do not include any confidential information until we verify that the firm is in a position to represent you and our engagement is confirmed in a letter. Prior to that time, there is no assurance that information you send us will be maintained as confidential. Thank you for your consideration.

Accept Cancel