‘Exceptionally strong negotiator’ Dirk Spacek heads up the data privacy and protection offering at CMS von Erlach Partners Ltd., providing clients with a strong understanding in a variety of compliance and advisory mandates, as well as data protection issues surrounding a stable of M&A transactions. The team maintains a comprehensive offering, particularly across regulated industries such as technology, energy, and financial services, that ranges from general data privacy compliance work to protection issues arising from sustainability and supply chains. Julia Nitschke is also recommended.
Testimonials
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‘The team has a strong international privacy practice and provides commercially focused advice.’
‘Dirk Spacek is commercial, responsive and provides excellent service.’
‘This team is characterised first and foremost by its absolute reliability. The members of the team work well together, are very efficient and effective in their advisory capacity, and, in addition, are very successfully interlinked to deliver above-average solutions.'
'We are always impressed and value our cooperation very much.'
'They always go the extra mile.’
‘Dirk Spacek's commitment is outstanding. His in-depth expertise and many years of experience, combined with his extraordinary network, allow him to be extremely effective.'
'Dirk Spacek works proactively and with a long-term orientation, which always gives us a competitive advantage and puts us on a solid footing. Dirk is an exceptionally strong negotiator.’
Key clients
- Aon Schweiz AG
- Better Cotton Initiative
- Ratepay GmbHYesHochalpines Institut Ftan AG
- Merck AG, Switzerland
- mobile Health AG
- nChain Group
- N-Dream AG
- Ionity
Work highlights
- Assisted Aon Schweiz AG with conducting a comprehensive data privacy compliance project with a view toward the impending revision of the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection.
- Advised the Better Cotton Initiative on an analysis of data privacy and trade secret implications of sharing supplier and retailer data through their online platform for sustainability and supply chain transparency purposes.
- Assisted Ratepay with conducting a comprehensive data privacy compliance assessment of its business model and implications under Swiss privacy laws.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Dirk Spacek