Taylor Wessing

IT & Telecoms, Copyright & Media Law, Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Partner

Gregor Schmid is a lawyer for technology and media with a focus on data protection, copyright, media, IT law and e-commerce. He regularly advises on negotiations and transactions, financing and joint ventures as well as on regulatory aspects of the digital business.

Gregor´s clients include technology start-ups, ISPs, games, film and television companies as well as financial institutions and investors. Gregor is also an experienced litigator in complex business disputes.

The distinguished legal expert is an award-winning and recommended lawyer in the fields of technology and data protection.

Since 2021 Lecturer at University of Alicante on the Law of Digital Transformation 2011 - 2020 Lecturer Media Law, Humbold-Universität zu Berlin Since 2006 Partner, Taylor Wessing 2012 Lecturer, MHMK Macromedia Hochschule für Medien und Kommunikation, München 2011 Lecturer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2003 Lecturer, Max-Planck-Institut für Patent-, Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht (today: Innovation und Wettbewerb) 1999 - 2006 Lawyer, Linklaters LLP in IPIT//Media & Entertainment 1997 - 1999 Research assistant, Max-Planck-Institut für Patent-, Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht (today: Innovation und Wettbewerb)

German, English

2003 Admitted as a lawyer, Berlin 1999 Doctoral degree (Prof. Gerhard Schricker), Dissertation on a theme of competition and European law, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich 1997 Admitted as a lawyer, Munich 1996 Second state examination, Munich 1994 LL.M., University of Cambridge, England 1993 First state examination, Munich 1988 – 1993 Degree studies in law, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich