ECOMLEX - Key Persons


Ady van Nieuwenhuizen

Job Titles:
  • Partner - Intellectual Property, Privacy
Ady is a European intellectual property, marketing, IT and privacy lawyer, with a particular focus on digital media, social media, e-commerce and new technologies.

Agnieszka Zwierzyńska

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
  • Member of the IP Practice Group at Łaszczuk & Partners
Agnieszka Zwierzyńska is a Senior Associate and a member of the IP Practice Group at Łaszczuk & Partners. She specialises in IP and unfair competition law, new technologies and e-commerce law. She also has broad experience in data protection (GDPR), civil law and dispute resolution. She represents large corporations in technology disputes related to intellectual and industrial property (especially patents and trademarks).…

Carlos Pérez

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Carlos Pérez is the Partner in charge of the Information Technology Law department for Fieldfisher in Spain. He specialises in Technology Law and for more than 30 years has advised public, private, national, and international bodies with particular expertise in intellectual property, technology contracting and data protection. He advises technology companies, e-commerce businesses, pharmaceutical companies, non-governmental organisations, private non-profit-making foundations, insurance companies, retail businesses and public administrations.…

Clara-Ann Gordon

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Clara-Ann Gordon is specialised in the areas of TMT/Outsourcing, data privacy, internal investigations/e-discovery, compliance and represents clients in these areas in court proceedings (including mediation/arbitration) and in transactions.

Coelho Ribeiro

Coelho Ribeiro e Associados (CRA) was founded in 1986 and is a full service law firm with eight partners and a total of over 35 staff.

Conor Folan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate
Conor is a Senior Associate in the Fieldfisher Ireland Corporate and Commercial team with 10 years' experience advising various clients, including many in the technology sector, on a wide range of corporate and commercial issues. He advises his extensive base of clients with respect to mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing agreements, confidentiality agreements, service level agreements, standard terms and conditions, consultancy contracts, governance issues and company secretarial matters. Examples of Conor's work includes: Acted on behalf of a regulatory body in the negotiation of and entry into a Master Services Agreement, SLA and Schedules relating to its procurement of IT services. Acted for various public sector bodies on entry into contracts to obtain a remote hearing platform. Negotiated and drafted exclusive licence agreements and assignments of intellectual property rights for clients in the pharmaceutical industry. Advised clients in the information technology industry on their intellectual property rights relating to software development and drafted licensing and rental agreements for same. Regularly drafts and negotiates intellectual property rights indemnities and other protections for inclusion in a wide variety of commercial contracts entered into by clients.

Dr András Gurovits

Job Titles:
  • Partner
András Gurovits specialises in the areas of outsourcing/TMT as well as dispute resolution (arbitration/litigation and white collar crime), sports law, corporate governance/compliance and competition/antitrust proceedings.

Dr Gyula Gábriel

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner Bogsch & Partners / Business Address Bogsch & Partners
Business Address Bogsch & Partners 1126 Budapest Királyhágó tér 8-9 Hungary work Phone: +361 318 1945 work Email: gyula.gabriel@bogsch.hu INTERNET Website: www.bogsch-partners.hu Dr. Gábriel graduated from the Law Faculty of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest in 1991 with honours (summa cum laude). He continued his legal studies at a postgraduate level between 1991 and 1992 at the Law Faculty of the University of Trier, Germany. Gyula speaks German and English, is a member of the Budapest Bar and has been working with Bogsch & Partners since 1992. His practice supports Hungarian and multinational clients in corporate, commercial and transactional matters. Dr Gábriel advises on issues including legal due diligence audits, regulatory compliance, labour law, privacy and data protection, health and safety law and on advertising and media law issues.

Dr Tamás Gödölle

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Member of the Budapest Bar
  • Partner Bogsch & Partners / Business Address Bogsch & Partners
Business Address Bogsch & Partners 1126 Budapest Királyhágó tér 8-9 Hungary work Phone: +361 318 1945 work Email: tamas.godolle@bogsch.hu INTERNET Website: www.bogsch-partners.hu Dr. Gödölle graduated from the Law Faculty of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He studied commercial and international private law for one year at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany between 1987 and 1988 and continued with postgraduate legal studies at Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London) between 1990 and 1991 where he obtained his Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and European Competition Law. As a corporate, commercial and IP lawyer, Tamás has been practising in Hungary since 1991, joining Bogsch & Partners in 1995 where he became a Partner in 1996. Dr. Gödölle advises on issues relating to trademarks, copyright, antitrust, unfair competition and advertising law, as well as on franchising and distributor/agency contracts. He has extensive experience in IT, privacy, data protection and media law issues. Tamás is a member of the Budapest Bar, the Hungarian and International Leagues of Competition Law (LIDC), the European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA), the International Trademark Association (INTA), the International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw), the International Association of Industrial Property Rights (AIPPI) and the Hungarian Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright (MIE). Dr. Gödölle is also on the Editorial Board of the European Copyright and Design Reports (ECDR), and gives lectures at international conferences and publishes articles in various legal periodicals on IP and IT related issues. He is fluent in English and German and speaks French.

Dr. Felix Wittern

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Dr. Felix Wittern is Partner in the Hamburg office of Fieldfisher. Felix advises national and international technology firms, specifically companies utilising or implementing IT products on IT law. He regularly works on technology projects including the development, licensing and distribution of software.

Feilim O'Caoimh

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Feilim has 20+ years' experience as a commercial lawyer and leads the Fieldfisher Ireland Corporate and Commercial Team

Francesca Gravili

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Francesca Gravili leads the Data protection department at Fieldfisher Italy is a partner in the Venice office of Fieldfisher. She advises a wide range of Italian and international clients on data protection and commercial contracts across various sectors.

Jaime Medeiros

Job Titles:
  • Founding Partner of Coelho Ribeiro & Associados
  • Head of the IT, DP and E - Commerce Group
  • Head of the IT, DP and E - Commerce Group Coelho Ribeiro E Associados
Jaime Medeiros is a founding Partner of Coelho Ribeiro & Associados. He concentrates his practice in the areas of IT, IP, telecommunications, media law and international contracts. He has been elected ITechLaw Local Representative for Portugal (2010-2011); Vice President of the Lisbon District Bar of the Portuguese Bar Association (2008-2010); Counsellor to the General Counsel of the Portuguese Lawyers Pension Fund (2008-2010); member of the General Council of the Portuguese Bar Association (2002-2004); member of the Portuguese delegation at the CCBE (2004); member of the Board of the Lisbon district of the Portuguese Bar Association (1991-1993); member of the special committee of Company Law CCBE (Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the EC) and President of the supervisory board of Fundação LIGA (since 2005). Jaime was recognized as an expert in IT by the 2013 edition of Legal Experts, in Internet, E-Commerce & Data Protection as well as in Information Technology and Telecoms and Media by Who's who Legal since 2013, in Outsourcing in the 2012/2013 edition of PLC Which Lawyer IP and TMT by the Legal 500 since 2016.

Marek Korcz

Job Titles:
  • Partner

Martin Gynnerstedt

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Martin Gynnerstedt joined Fylgia Law Firm as a partner in 2018. He has a broad IT, telecoms and privacy law practice and has worked with clients in various fields, inter alia with regulatory agreements and disputes, GDPR/privacy compliance, contacts with authorities, licenses, e-commerce and general regulatory work. On the commercial side, Martin has extensive experience of negotiating and drafting agreements in commercial projects and he has in particular worked with outsourcing project and different IT services delivery projects.

Mr Christopher Mesnooh

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Christopher Mesnooh is a Partner in Fieldfisher's corporate finance department in Paris, with particular focus on international M&A, private equity, corporate transactions, IT and privacy.

Mr Diego Rigatti

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Diego leads the IP department at Fieldfisher Italy. He has been advising on e-commerce matters since its very start and was one of the first e-commerce experts to be appointed by the Ministry of Finance. He has recently advised domestic and international clients on smart contracts, NFTs issuances, e-gaming, AI projects, computer vision and autonomous driving software.

Mr Hakim Haouideg

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Hakim Haouideg is a Belgian qualified lawyer specialising in contentious and non-contentious intellectual property and IT law.

Mr Ivan Rámeš

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Ivan's main area of focus is intellectual property and technology law. He specialises in a comprehensive definition of IP strategy both in the Czech Republic and abroad, in enforcement of industrial property rights and copyrights, and particularly in counterfeits and pirated goods, parallel imports and the exhaustion of IP rights. Ivan is an expert in e-commerce, especially in terms of IP protection, consumer protection (including administrative proceedings with regulators such as the Czech Trade Inspection Authority and others), personal data protection and marketing law.…

Mr Martin von Willebrand

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Martin von Willebrand has a versatile experience on domestic and international assignments in technology, such as licensing, transfer of rights, buying and selling firms, negotiations, protection of IPRs and knowledge, product development questions, open source and copyright questions.

Mr Michael Hopp

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Michael Hopp mainly advises on issues relating to marketing, e-commerce and consumer protection. He also advises in cases related to copyright issues, IT law, agreements on the transfer or use of copyright and cases involving plagiarised products.

Mr Niels Christian Ellegaard

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Niels Christian Ellegaard advises primarily on issues relating to IT, outsourcing and telecommunications. He also advises in cases related to company law, general commercial law, regulatory infrastructure matters and litigation.

Mr Oliver Sueme

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Mr Oliver Sueme I am an IT and Internet law specialist and have almost two decades of experience in the field. I advise clients on all areas of the law affecting information technology, with a focus on IT contracts, data protection, IT security and e-commerce. View Profile

Mr Robert Nešpůrek

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner at Havel & Partners
Robert Nešpůrek is a Partner at Havel & Partners. He specializes in telecommunications and IT law, IP law, and competition and EU law and also advises on corporate transactions particularly the technology sector.

Mr Tim Van Canneyt

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Tim Van Canneyt works in the Technology Law Group at Fieldfisher, where he advises clients on both contractual and litigation aspects of information technology, data protection and e-commerce.

Mr Štěpán Štarha

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Štěpán specialises in IT and telecommunications law, intellectual property law, data protection, contractual and private international law. Štěpán primarily focuses on legal aspects of the creation and use of copyrighted works, legal aspects of information system implementation and computer program licensing, topics on which he also regularly lectures and publishes. In intellectual property law, Štěpán specialises in technology transfers, among other things, including transfers in science and research, and in trademark and design protection.

Mónica Oliveira Costa

Job Titles:
  • Partner, IT, DP and E - Commerce Group
  • Partner, IT, DP and E - Commerce Group Coelho Ribeiro E Associados
Mónica Oliveira Costa graduated from the Catholic University of Lisbon, Portugal and undertook post-graduate studies in consumer and in IT law. She is a member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 2002 and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) since 2012.

Nuria Pastor

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • English Solicitor
Nuria Pastor is a dually qualified English Solicitor and Spanish Abogada. She is a data protection specialist. Before joining the firm in July 2007, Nuria spent several years working in the IT law department of Landwell-PwC in Barcelona.

Olivier Proust

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Partner / Avocat Associé Member of the Paris and Brussels Bars
As a French-qualified lawyer based in Brussels, Olivier is ideally located at the heart of Europe to monitor any legal developments in this fast-developing area of the law and to interact with representatives of the EU institutions and bodies. As a privacy law specialist, he advises organisations of all sizes and across business sectors on all aspects of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and French data protection law, including to implement privacy policies and procedures, to conduct data protection impact assessments, or to handle data subject requests.

Paul Barton

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Paul Barton specialises in all areas of IP, IT, data protection and e-commerce and Internet law, including advising on the procurement, licensing, development and outsourcing of computer systems and software.

Philipp Reinisch

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Expert
  • Partner Fieldfisher
  • Specialist
Business Address Rotenturmstraße 5-9 1010 Vienna Austria work Phone: +43 1 928 163 40 18 work Email: philipp.reinisch@fieldfisher.com INTERNET Website: www.fieldfisher.com Philipp Reinisch is partner in charge of IT/IP law in the Vienna office of Fieldfisher. Philipp is a specialist in all technology-driven business models. He has been advising on all areas of IT/IP law for over ten years, with a strong focus on data protection law. His experience in the technology sector has involved him working with start-ups, public bodies, large multinationals and non-government organisations in digital media, data and telecoms projects. Philipp is an expert in digitalization topics and assists in solving all legal problems arising from the introduction of legal tech products. He has a high basic technical understanding of all practical requirements related to information technologies. Philipp acts as an external data protection officer (DPO) in numerous companies. Prior to his work as a lawyer, Philipp worked for several years as Deputy Head of Legal Affairs and Data Protection Officer for the leading IT service provider in the public sector in Austria. In addition to his work as a lawyer, Philipp is also a lecturer for IT law at the University of Applied Sciences Kufstein/Tyrol.

Richard Otevřel

Job Titles:
  • Counsel

SONIA GRACIA

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lawyer
Sonia Gracia is a senior lawyer in the Department of Telecommunications, Media and New Technologies (TMT) at Fieldfisher Spain, specialising in personal data protection, digital law and intellectual and industrial property. For more than 8 years Sonia has advised national and international public and private companies on the protection of personal data, digital law and new technologies, including adaptation to applicable regulations and working as external Data Protection Officer (DPO).…

Ståle L Hagen

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Business Address Ruseløkkveien 14 0251 Oslo Norway work Phone: +47 934 90 842 work Email: s.hagen@selmer.no INTERNET Ståle L Hagen has extensive experience in drafting, negotiation and management of contracts, both in Norway and internationally, specializing in technology. He has previously worked in the IT industry, both as a customer and as a supplier, and he is often engaged to advise on or to lead solution oriented negotiations. With his uncompromising focus on process management he is a true "closer". Ståle has been an active participant in the development of several standard contract templates used in the Norwegian IT industry in cooperation with The Norwegian Computer Society (DnD) and DFØ (SSA). He is an inspiring and popular lecturer on technology law, contracts and negotiations, and he also works with M&A and as a mediator in the technology sector. Ståle advises his clients on business development and commercial processes. He creates change through communication and motivation, often working in the English language.