White & Case LLP acts across the social media, energy, automotive and technology sectors with a cross-practice approach and advises corporations, banks and fintech companies on all aspects of German and European data protection law, including data transfers, the establishment of digital platforms and cyber security matters. This is complemented by experience in clients' representation in litigation. The team is led by Detlev Gabel (data protection law, technology law).

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Work highlights

  • Representing Meta in international privacy and data protection matters; also support in compliance with data protection requirements around the world.
  • Supporting a German subsidiary of a US/Canadian company in dealing with a ransom cyberattack from a data protection and cyber security perspective.
  • Advising Zalando on the acquisition of the majority stake in Highsnobiety. One of the focuses was on data protection law.

Lawyers

Leading partners
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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Detlev Gabel

Other key lawyers

Martin Munz, Sylvia Lorenz