René Schmidt|Senior Associate
- Admitted to the German bar in 2018, joined Arnecke Sibeth Dabelstein in 2022
- Lawyer specialising in IT law with a focus on the legal support of large IT projects, in the support of nationally and internationally active software companies and IT service providers, including advice on data protection law as well as public procurement and competition law aspects of such projects. Also defending and pursuing claims in disputes before state courts and arbitration tribunals, primarily in relation to information technology.
- Professional experience: attorney at law at Waldeck Rechtsanwälte PartmbB in the areas of IT law, litigation, intellectual property, data protection and employment law (2019 – 2022), Associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in their Dispute Resolution practice area, Frankfurt am Main (2018 – 2019), research assistant at Philipps University Marburg, head of the Department of Legal Informatics (2013 – 2017), research assistant at an internationally orientated commercial law firm in Frankfurt am Main (2016 – 2017).
- Legal clerkship at the Wiesbaden Regional Court (2015 – 2017), Legal clerkship in the Higher Regional Court district of Frankfurt am Main, including periods at the Wiesbaden Regional and Administrative Court, the capital offences department of the Wiesbaden public attorney’s office and at an internationally orientated commercial law firm.
- Law studies at the Philipps University of Marburg with a special focus on international commercial law (2008 – 2014)
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- Language: German, English
- Credentials Digital Technology
- Legal advice to an IT service provider of a German state bank on the transition to another service provider including contract negotiations on the extension of the outsourcing contract; service provider of the broadcasting and media industry on various projects and contracts; various contract drafts for a German IT service provider with focus on IT consulting, software development as well as information and communication technology
- Credentials Dispute Resolution
- Arbitration concerning the bearing of costs for cloud services for the European Space Agency; defending claims based on software licensing costs against an IT service provider of a rural German district; representing several major German car manufacturers against claims for damages by customers as a result of product recalls; representing a major professional association in several court actions and urgent proceedings concerning trademark and copyright claims against its former service provider; assisting witnesses and organising the examination of witnesses in a cross-border post-M&A dispute before a Malaysian civil court