With their roles in international commercial law firms, Florian and Friedrich bring great experience and specialized know-how in IT and data protection law. Florian, formerly part of the TMT (Technology, Media & Telecommunications) team at Linklaters LLP in Munich as well as the Digital Business team at Noerr Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB, along with Friedrich, also a former team member of the TMT team at Linklaters LLP in Frankfurt a.M., have not only advised on numerous cross-border outsourcing transactions but also handled various software law-related complexes, such as software licensing, development, implementation, maintenance, and support contracts, as well as other topics related to e-commerce, cloud computing, big data, and the metaverse. Working for major international law firms with a strong focus on M&A transactions, both have proven their IT and data protection law skills through their participation in numerous national and international (technology-related) M&A transactions.
Furthermore, Florian and Friedrich's expertise extends to managing various data protection complexes. Their consulting field also includes steering GDPR implementation and compliance projects, providing data protection advice on internal investigations, ensuring data protection compliance in international data transfers, and assessing new products and technologies from a data protection perspective, especially in the increasingly relevant sphere of artificial intelligence.