Dentons

Corporate / Compliance

Dr. Christian Schefold, LL.M., is a Partner in the Berlin office of Dentons, a member of the Corporate practice and co-heading the German Compliance practice. He focuses on compliance, corporate and data protection law. Christian headed the compliance consultation department at Daimler AG where he was co-responsible for setting up a compliance network within the Daimler group worldwide. Prior to this task, he worked several years as senior counsel with Daimler Financial Services AG being responsible inter alia for IP, IT & DP law, international commercial law, financing, M&A and public private partnerships (namely for the legal set-up of the German motorway tolling system Toll Collect). He is constantly practicing data protection law since 1996.

Christian’s favorites are setting up compliance management systems (CMS), especially Data Protection CMS as well as Data Transfer Regimes for international corporations to fulfill GDPR requirements.

Partner, Dentons, 2019 to date Of Counsel, Dentons, 2015-2019 Of Counsel (Compliance & Corporate Law), Mayer Brown LLP, Dusseldorf, 2009-2014 Head of Compliance Consultation, DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, 2005-2008 Senior Counsel, DaimlerChrysler Services AG, Berlin (“debis”), 1997-2005 Counsel Legal Affairs, debis Systemhaus GmbH, Munich, 1996-1997

TRACE – partner lawyer for Germany DICO – Working Groups on Compliance Risk Analysis and Criminal Law Member, Editor’s Advisory Committee, ZRFC (Journal for Risk, Fraud & Compliance)

University of Mainz, 1997, Dr. iur.

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 1995

Legal clerkship, 1992-1995, Aachen

University of Edinburgh, 1992, LL.M.

University of Mainz, 1985-1991, Legal studies