Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH‘s team is led by Wulff-Axel Schmidt and advises companies, start-ups and public institutions on the use of data to train AI, international data transfers and digital business models. Stefanie Hellmich routinely assists with the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation and data protection compliance. The team is experienced in the healthcare sector and advises on cloud-related matters, the use of patient data and data protection measures. This is complemented by relevant expertise in litigation, including proceedings before the data protection supervisory authorities and in connection with the enforcement of claims.
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- 'We switched to Luther/Ms. Silvia Bauer from the Cologne office several years ago for advice on IT and data protection matters because we prefer pragmatic solutions.'
- 'Ms Silvia Bauer explains complex data protection issues in a way that even laypeople can understand - this also applies to technical/IT problems.'
Key clients
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
- Ashfield Healthcare GmbH
- DKMS gemeinnützige GmbH
- Deutsche Telekom GmbH
- Volkswagen Financial Services
- Evonik Industries AG
- E.ON SE
- GOCARDLESS LTD
- Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
- BASF
- Metro AG
- H&M
- Peek & Cloppenburg KG Hamburg
- Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH
Work highlights
- Advising the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin as the NUM's coordination point in the first and second funding phases on the development of a tailor-made referral agreement and on the creation of cooperation agreements with a focus on data protection law, among other things.
- Advising the Ashfield Group on all data protection issues relating to the processing of data as part of patient programs for pharmaceutical companies, national and international healthcare professional programs as well as the implementation of data protection compliance in the pharmaceutical sector.
- Advising Volkswagen Financial Services AG on data protection law in the context of various projects and in the implementation of a major international data protection project with audits in 16 European jurisdictions.
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