DLA Piper Weiss-Tessbach Rechtsanwälte GmbH
Client SatisfactionDLA Piper Weiss-Tessbach Rechtsanwälte GmbH‘s data protection team ’combines legal excellence and business drive’ to advise clients in the event of Data Protection Authority investigations concerning the handling of employee and customer data, including where data breaches and ransomware attacks have occurred. Heading the team is Sabine Fehringer, whose expertise encompasses technology transfer and IP licensing matters in addition to corporate transactions. Stefan Panic handles regulatory issues, including data breach notifications and subject access requests.
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Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'DLA Piper has a unique, business-driven approach – it combines legal excellence and business drive in an outstanding way.'
- 'Sabine Fehringer: our favourite IPT lawyer - business-driven, highly experienced and really amazing to work with.'
Key clients
- Pfizer
- Hutchison Drei Austria GmbH
- Trans-Austria Gasleitung (TAG) GmbH
- Anton Paar GmbH
- LUBRIZOL FRANCE SAS
- CCB Management Services GmbH (Coca Cola Hellenic)
- Tiergesundheit Österreich
Work highlights
- Advised an Austria-based international company which suffered a data breach following a ransomware attack.
- Advised a telecommunications company in connection with a sector review by the Austrian Data Protection Authority.
- Advised an organisation on the data protection aspects of a program for animal product exports which required an exchange of certain data related to livestock and dairy producers.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Sabine Fehringer