Svetlana is a senior associate in De Brauw's Data, Cyber & Privacy team. She is a subject matter expert in EU data privacy and data protection, cybersecurity and digital regulation. Her special area of expertise is cross-border data transfers and contentious data-protection enforcement.

Svetlana is known for her multidisciplinary approach to data-related enforcement. She introduced the concept of "kaleidoscopic enforcement" to capture how the same data-related practice can fall within the enforcement remit of different overlapping legal frameworks, each supervised by different competent authorities acting independently. This multi-jurisdictional view informs her practical work. She leads GDPR workstreams in major pan-European follow-on litigation. She also acts as lead expert in contentious data-protection proceedings before the Dutch Data Protection Authority, developing legal strategy and shaping the substantive arguments. In addition, she advises on high-stakes GDPR matters across a range of sectors.

Svetlana has published extensively across the data law landscape, including on the governance of cross-border data flows, multidisciplinary data-related enforcement, mass damage claims and digital sovereignty. Her publications are regularly cited by leading scholars and international and European institutions, including UNCTAD, the WTO and the European Parliament. Her book Governing Cross-Border Data Flows: Reconciling EU Data Protection and International Trade Law was published by Oxford University Press in March 2024. She obtained her PhD cum laude from the University of Amsterdam in 2021.

Svetlana is a regular speaker at international conferences, including the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference, one of the world's leading multidisciplinary forums gathering academics, lawyers, practitioners, policymakers and civil society from across the globe. She sits on the editorial board of Legal Issues of Economic Integration, reviewing academic contributions on EU law, data protection, and international trade and policy.

Before joining De Brauw, Svetlana co-founded a Russian law firm and held roles at Allianz Global Assistance Russia and the Moscow office of Debevoise & Plimpton.