Europe - Germany • Information technology
White & Case LLP
White & Case LLP's expertise is based on cross-practice support, where the team frequently cooperates with the M&A and private equity specialists on IT and data protection matters in transactions and reorganisations. The team also acts in the financial sector and advises on digitisation issues pertaining to digital assets. Clients benefit from the support in cloud-based systems, the transition of corporate software to the cloud, the creation of payment platforms and the outsourcing of IT and data management from public sector clients to private companies. Jost Kotthoff (sourcing, outsourcing and technology transactions) leads the practice.
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Work highlights
- Ongoing advice to leading industrial companies and credit institutions on the sourcing of cloud services, including the establishment of the relevant risk processes as well as in connection with various digitalization projects.
- Advising a public corporation on the outsourcing of the IT and data management required to fulfill public law tasks to a private company.
- Advising a private equity fund on IT and data protection law on the acquisition of all shares in a German start-up in the high-tech industry. Due to the start-up's business model, numerous IP issues, IT law and data protection issues had to be clarified.