Technology & Data

Martin Lose is a Counsel in Fieldfisher´s Hamburg office and specialises in advising digital business models, in particular in the areas of Media and IT Law, Competition Law, Telecommunications Law and Data Protection Law.

A particular focus of his advice is the legally secure design, regulatory protection and defence of business models in highly regulated industries, especially in the area of legal tech. In recent years, he has helped some of the market leaders in the (further) development of their business models.

Another focus of his work is litigation in cases with a strong technology connection.

Before becoming a lawyer, he did research on internet and media regulation at the Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research in Hamburg and at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin.

He advises our clients in German and English.

He is a founding member and was a board member of Legal Tech Verband Deutschland e.V.

He is also involved in legal education, most recently through lectures at Bucerius Law School as part of the Bucerius/UC Hastings Summer Program "Licensing Transactions in Intellectual Property" and a seminar on AI and Data Protection Law of the Law and AI Research Group.

He publishes regularly, in particular on regulatory developments in the field of legal tech, most recently inter alia:

Lose, Martin: "Comment on the Judgment of the Higher Regional Court of Dresden of April 6, 2023, 8 U 1883/22 (Prohibition of commissions for lawyers)", MMR 2023, 574 Happel, André/Lose, Martin: "Interprofessionelle Sozietät: What to do in case of (partial) commerciality?", AnwBl Online 2022, 414 Lose, Martin: "BGH decisions on smartlaw and class action debt collection: A decisive summer for legal tech", Legal Tech Directory 02/2021 p. 22 Plog, Philipp/Lose, Martin: "How smart is the contract generator smartlaw? The future regulation of legal services", AnwBl Online 2021, 131-133 Plog, Philipp/Lose, Martin: "Die vertragliche Ausgestaltung von Legal Tech Geschäftsmodellen", Chapter 15.2 in: Kaulartz/Braegelmann (2020), Legal Handbook Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Lose, Martin: "What Courts "Can Do" - Corona Pandemic Reveals Deficits in the IT Equipment of the Courts", guest article of 22 September 2020 at www.legal-tech.de Lose, Martin: Comment on the Judgment of the Federal Court of Justice of January 26, 2017, I ZR 207/14 "ARD Buffet," K&R 2017, 263 Oermann, Markus/Lose, Martin/Johnsen, Katharina/Schmidt, Jan-Hinrik: Approaching Social Media Governance, HIIG Discussion Paper Series, No. 2014-05 Beckert, Bernd/Schulz, Wolfgang/Lose, Martin: Expansion Strategies for Broadband Networks in Europe, Bertelsmann Foundation Study 2017