Technologie und Datenschutz

We possess many years of experience in undertaking legislative initiatives to regulate the digital economy in the areas of copyright, media and competition law; advising leading companies and associations on strategic issues of the platform economy and enforcing claims against dominant internet platforms.

Wir haben langjährige Erfahrung in der Begleitung von Gesetzesinitiativen zur Regulierung der Digitalwirtschaft in den Bereichen des Urheber-, Medien- und Wettbewerbsrechts gesammelt, führende Unternehmen und Verbände zu strategischen Fragen der Plattformökonomie beraten und Ansprüche gegen marktbeherrschende Internet-Plattformen durchgesetzt.

This multi-disciplinary approach allows our team to provide comprehensive advice on all competition issues in the digital economy.

We regularly:

represent companies and associations in connection with restrictive practices of dominant digital companies before German and European authorities and courts,
enforce damages for such practices, and
advise clients on legal issues relating to the digital economy, including platform regulation, copyright and fair trading issues and the State Media Treaty.

We are acting for our clients, among others, in the following landmark proceedings:

Representation of a complainant and several intervening parties in the competition proceedings "Google Android" on the bundling of various Google services - record EC fine of € 4.3 billion.
Representation of complainants and intervenors in the competition case "Google Search (Shopping)" on the preferential treatment of Google-owned services in search results pages – record EC fine of € 2.42 billion; and aggrieved companies in subsequent damages proceedings
Advising numerous product, travel, job and flight brokerage services on non-discriminatory display in search engine, app store and social network results
Advising retailers/app developers on terms and conditions of Amazon and Apple
Enforcing a European ancillary copyright for press publishers to secure the balance of power between market-dominant aggregators and press publishers

For our additional Technology & Data Breach expertise in:

Belgium
France
Sweden
The Netherlands
United Kingdom
United States

Technologieunternehmen sind in der digitalen Wirtschaft mit komplexen Marktzugangs- und Marktmachtfragen konfrontiert. Von Anfang an hat sich Hausfeld neben dem Kartellrecht auf das Recht der digitalen Wirtschaft in Deutschland fokussiert. Dank ihres tiefen Verständnisses für digitale Geschäftsmodelle "nimmt die Kanzlei eine Vorreiterrolle in Mandaten mit Bezug zu digitalen Märkten und Plattformen ein."

Legal 500, 2020

Thomas Höppner has outstanding understanding of very complex technical and economic systems, in particular digital platform markets, outstanding knowledge of competition law, outstanding written and oral argumentation.

Who's Who Legal, 2020

Hausfeld, und insbesondere Thomas Höppner, verfügt neben dem Wissen im Kartellrecht über tiefes Fachwissen in digitalen Geschäftsmodellen.

Legal 500, 2020