Michael Schmidl

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Baker McKenzie

Partner, Data Protection and Privacy

Michael Schmidl is an honorary professor at the University of Augsburg and specialist lawyer for Information Technology law ("Fachanwalt für IT-Recht"). He advises in all areas of contentious and non-contentious Information Technology law, including Internet, Computer/Software, Data Privacy and Media law. Mr. Schmidl also has a general commercial law background and has profound experience in the drafting and negotiation of outsourcing contracts and in carrying out Compliance projects.

 

Mr. Schmidl was admitted to practice in Germany in 2000. Having started studying German law in 1992 he obtained the French Master of Law (Maître en Droit) at the University of Bordeaux in 1995 within the International Students Exchange Programme Erasmus. He then continued studying German law, obtained a doctorate law degree in 1997 (Dr. iur. - JSD equivalent) at the University of Bayreuth and passed his First State Exam (JD-equivalent) in 1998 at the University of Munich. He clerked for the Landgericht I in Munich (Court of Appeals) (1998-99), Second State Exam 1999, from 1996-1999 he worked as a scientific scholar at the University of Munich in the department for Privacy Law. In 2004 he obtained the Master of Laws for European Economic Law (LL.M. Eur.) at the University of Munich. Since the beginning of 2007 Mr. Schmidl has been a Partner of Baker & McKenzie in Munich.

 

Additionally, Michael is fluent in English, German & French languages, with main areas of focus in; Information Technology, E-commerce, Privacy, Intellectual Property, Unfair Competition, Compliance and General Contract Law. He regularly gives presentations for external providers of seminars as well as in-house seminars.

 

Representative clients, cases or matters: 

Several Outsourcing Projects in the banking sector

First Data: Compliance Audits for all sectors of the company

TeleCash: Advice on several projects re. payment systems

BGI Deutschland AG: Draft and negotiate license and provider agreements, carrying out a privacy audit

 

Publications, presentations, and articles: 

Author, "Compliant Compliance – Ausgewählte Grenzen maximale Kontrolle", in Momsen/Grützner, Handbuch Wirtschafts- und Steuerstrafrecht, 2nd Edition (2020)

Co-editor, "Compliance from A to Z (2014 Edition)", December 2014

Contributor, "EMEA Legal Insights Bulletin", September 2013

Contributor, "EMEA Legal Insights Bulletin", June 2013

Author, "The Challenges of Subprocessing and Suggested Solutions Under German and EU Privacy Law", February 2013

Contributor, "Compliance Kompakt", December 2012

 

Contributions by Michael Schmidl

  • Ob, wann und wie eine DSFA vorgenommen werden sollte
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: Deutschland 2020 - Cancelled
  • Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2020 - Canceled