ADVANT Beiten stands out thanks to the close cooperation of the IT and media practices. This expertise benefits clients from the gaming, finance and healthcare sectors. The client portfolio includes companies as well as public sector players, which the team advises on risk management, contract design, digitisation projects and compliance. The latter is a key competence of Susanne Klein, who made partner in November 2022. The partner roster was further strengthened with the addition of Birgit Münchbach (August 2022, previously at Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner) and Ariane Loof (October 2022, formerly KPMG Law in Germany). While Münchbach focuses on digital business models and cloud solutions, Loof acts at the interface between data protection and employment law. Practice head Andreas Lober is well versed in litigation and clients' representation before the supervisory authorities.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • 'Knowledge of the industry and data protection and data processing needs.'
  • 'Susanne Klein is always well informed and up to date. Fast, reliable and easy to implement work results. Practically oriented.'
  • 'The law firm works very precisely and always adheres to specified (even very tight) deadlines. We can always rely on the ADVANT BEITEN team and really enjoy working with them.'
  • 'Andreas Lober is known far beyond the borders for his data protection know-how.'
  • 'Susanne Klein is an expert in the field of data protection and regularly shines with enormous detailed knowledge and smart problem solutions. She is also very passionate about data protection.'
  • 'A very well-founded and “to the point” know-how in data protection. Very good expertise.'
  • 'Ability to adapt to the specifics of an individual client.'
  • 'Susanne Klein: Reliability, very friendly, very pleasant communication, great sparring partner, timely feedback.'

Key clients

  • Areas Deutschland Holding GmbH
  • Deutsch-Amerikanische Fulbright-Kommission
  • finstreet GmbH
  • QUANTYOO GmbH & Co. KG
  • Freistaat Sachsen (Staatsbetrieb Sächsische Informatik Dienste) und Kommunale DatenNetz GmbH

Work highlights

  • Advising the German-American Fulbright commission on data protection law, initially in various procurement procedures, now in the role of external data protection officer.
  • Advising the Free State of Saxony (Staatsbetrieb Sächsische Informatik Dienste, SID) and Kommunale DatenNetz GmbH on the award of the design, construction and operation of the nationwide network for voice and data communication for the administration of the Free State of Saxony and the Saxon municipalities.
  • Ongoing data protection advice to Quantyoo GmbH & Co. KG on the implementation of a data-driven business model that also takes into account the basic data protection principles of privacy by design and privacy by default.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Andreas Lober