Cerha Hempel

Regulatory and White Collar

Partner / Head of Department Regulatory and White Collar, specialised in Public Law & European Law, Antitrust & Competition, Compliance & Investigations, White Collar Crime, IT & Privacy.

Hans  is head of the firm’s public law practice group. Since January 2020, Hans also became head of the new Department Regulatory and White Collar. Hans expertise lies in the area of EU law, among other things, and he is renowned as one of the leading Austrian attorneys in state aid and data protection law. Furthermore, he advises in all fields of public law, including constitutional law, energy law and administrative law.

Admitted 2009, (Attorney at Law), Austria Functions:

University Lecturer, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

Partner with CERHA HEMPEL since 2013 and Head of the new Department Regulatory and White Collar. Hans is leading in areas of data protection, telecommunications, e-commerce and regularly assists Austrian and global clients with international data transfers, outsourcing projects, cloud computing and behavioral advertising. Assisted and coordinated GDPR compliance, regulatory projects for numerous large multinational clients. ​Also an expert in white collar crime and took the lead in some of the biggest internal investigations in Austria. Frequently represents companies damaged by criminal conduct in trials and asset tracing. Active in all areas of regulatory, public, administrative law and handles various cases under the fundamental freedoms, including infringement proceedings before the European Commission, as well as other areas of EU law (inparticular state aid, regulated industries, EU litigation). Acts regularly before the CJEU. He is a university lecturer for EU law and gives lectures on compliance, data protection and criminal law and is an author of several publications (textbook Austrian data protection law).​

German, English, Spanish

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Harvard Law School (LL.M. 2005); University of Vienna (Mag. iur. 2002, Mag. phil. 2004, Dr. iur. 2004)