Catherine has been a lawyer since 2000. She is co-founder and partner at SteensmaEven.

Catherine specializes in privacy law and has extensive experience in the financial sector. She has managed large international projects in the field of privacy law. For more than seven years, Catherine worked on a secondment basis for ABN AMRO Bank, where she assisted with legal, risk, and compliance-related projects. She also regularly litigates on matters such as the right of access and credit registration (BKR) disputes.

Catherine provides post-graduate education, including at the Grotius Academy, PALA, and PAO Leiden. She frequently gives lectures on various privacy-related topics, including the processing of employee personal data by employers.

Catherine publishes regularly. She is a case annotator for JAR in the area of privacy law and (co-)author of the book Tekstuitgave Privacyverordening.

Catherine is the founder and board member of the Privacy Law Association (VPR) and the Association of Privacy Law Lawyers (VPR-A). She is also a member of the College of Delegates of the Dutch Bar Association.

Catherine Jakimowicz is registered in the Dutch Bar Association’s register with privacy law as her area of practice.

Based on this registration, she is required to obtain ten training points each calendar year, in accordance with the standards of the Dutch Bar Association, for each registered main area of law.