Dr. Heiner Baab

Specialties

• IT law

  • Structuring of contracts

  • Licensing and distribution law

  • Software/IP

  • Hosting & Outsourcing

  • E-Commerce

  • Smart Metering

• Privacy

  • Design of business models

  • Use of data, information for data subjects

  • Legal basis: consent, contracts, legitimate interest

  • Rights of data subjects (e.g. right to access)

  • Data processing for customers or by suppliers

  • International data transfer

  • Data breaches (including notification to the authority)

  • Data protection management system according to GDPR
    with GAP analysis and development plan

• Industrial property rights

• Compliance

​Career

​Studied law at the Universities of Mainz (Germany), Dijon (France) and Surrey (UK)

• 1989: LL.M. (Dickinson/ Penn State, USA) 

• 2000: PhD in law (Dr. iur.) 

• Since 1991: Attorney-at-Law (New York) 

• Since 2000: Rechtsanwalt (attorney) in Germany

• Since 2009: Specialist IT law attorney

• Since 2018: cert. Data Protection Officer DPO-TÜV

• Member of

  • German Association for Law and IT (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik) (DGRI)

  • Frankfurter Anwaltsverein (Frankfurt Bar Association), German Section IT law (DAV-IT)

  • German-American Lawyers Association (DAJV)

• Vice-President of the German-French Lawyers Association (DFJ)

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