Gernot is a principal associate in the Global Transactions group and member of the TMT team in our Vienna office. Gernot regularly advises multinational and domestic clients on national and international data privacy law, data-driven innovation and digital projects, IT-outsourcing strategies and projects, media and telecommunication law and projects involving legal tech.
Gernot completed his legal education at the University of Vienna and holds a PhD in outer space law. After completing his legal education and before joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, he obtained academic degrees in computer science, namely “Software and Information Engineering” as well as “Computational Intelligence” from the Vienna University of Technology, thus giving him a broad understanding on the technical aspects arising in TMT matters.
Gernot is also a member of our technology, media and telecoms (TMT) sector group.
He speaks German and English.
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- Hutchison Drei Austria GmbH on the acquisition of Tele2 Holding GmbH, including the use of legal tech (i.e. KIRA) in the due diligence process to manage tight time constraints on the analysis of a large virtual data room;
- A leading German manufacturing company on the use and training of a technology assisted review (TAR) tool in course of a global internal investigation to efficiently and in a targeted manner analyze and review the document universe (containing more than 170 million documents) for specific questions and aspects relevant to the investigation;
- Numerous Austrian companies on data privacy-related aspects in getting ready for the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR);
- Numerous banks on data privacy aspects and structuring of the (international) sale of receivables, including setting up GDPR compliant data trustee structures;
- UniCredit Business Integrated Services in the extension of its multinational, high volume outsourcing of IT infrastructure to a joint venture formed with IBM, inter alia moving the outsourced services to a cloud environment;
- An Austrian company on the implementation of a data strategy and data governance.
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- University of Vienna (Mag. iur.)
- University of Vienna (PhD in outer space law, Dr. iur.)
- The Vienna University of Technology (Software and Information Engineering, B.Sc.)
- The Vienna University of Technology (Computational Intelligence, Dipl.-Ing.)
- Rechtsanwalt (attorney at law), admitted to the Austrian bar
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