Led by Andreas Lober, the IP/IT/media team at ADVANT Beiten advises across practices and locations and covers the areas gaming, banking and finance, healthcare and AI (in particular generative AI tools). The first two areas are a focus of the Frankfurt-based team, while healthcare matters are handled by the Berlin location; this is complemented by the Freiburg-based team's expertise in technology-related contracts and R&D agreements. The partner roster was significantly strengthened with the promotion of data protection expert Susanne Klein in November 2022, the arrival of Birgit Münchbach (technology transactions) from Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner in August 2022 as well as the additions of  Ariane Loof (employment law, employee data protection), who joined from KPMG Law in Germany in October 2022 and Peggy Müller from Klinkert Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB in January 2023. Müller focuses on IP issues.

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  • 'Highest accessibility, high resilience, good atmosphere, diversity in the entire Advant Beiten team, technology interfaces are covered.'
  • 'Wojtek Ropel: Highest level of technological and legal knowledge, clear and concrete communication, best work results used, quick understanding of the issue and training, short-term availability.'
  • 'Good solutions are always quickly available.'

Key clients

  • PAYBACK GmbH
  • Sparda Banken
  • Avanade Deutschland GmbH
  • Loyalty Partner Solutions GmbH
  • INVERS GmbH
  • Conductix-Wampfler GmbH
  • Deutsch-Amerikanische Fulbright-Kommission
  • finstreet GmbH
  • Ministerium der Finanzen des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
  • Nect GmbH
  • OncologyInformationService e.K.
  • Freiburg CancerDataNet GmbH
  • Freistaat Sachsen

Work highlights

  • Advising finstreet GmbH on data protection and banking law concepts as well as contract design in relation to banks and providers of integrated services, most recently on the implementation of a software solution for document categorization based on artificial intelligence.
  • IT law advice to the Ministry of Finance of the State of Saxony-Anhalt as part of a competitive negotiation process for the purchase of budget software for the administration of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Andreas Lober