"Wolf Tassilo Böhm has excellent and broad expertise and always has the right solution ready."
The Legal 500 EMEA 2023
“Wolf-Tassilo Böhm manages mandates in a very experienced manner and exudes the calm that a client wishes for in difficult mandates.”
The Legal 500 EMEA 2022
Named among the leading Data Protection lawyers in Germany.
WirtschaftsWoche 2021
Profile
Dr. Wolf-Tassilo Böhm advises market-leading companies and private equity funds on EU data privacy and cybersecurity, particularly relating to business models in the digital economy.
Wolf leverages a deep understanding of digital business models across industries to guide clients on:
Data protection aspects of corporate transactions
Counseling and strategic advice on products; international data transfers; and telecommunications data protection and ePrivacy laws
Defense against EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) damages claims and other data protection related civil litigation
Cybersecurity and cyber incident response
He forges close relationships with companies to help them invest in digital business models and protect their assets. When data privacy is business-critical to a matter, he identifies potential issues, quantifies risk, and devises strategies that allow clients to achieve their commercial objectives.
Wolf is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP-EU/GDPR) and regularly writes and speaks on data privacy topics. He serves on the firm’s Data Privacy and Security Committees.
He maintains an active pro bono practice and advises on data privacy for nonprofit organizations.
Experience
Wolf’s recent data privacy experience includes advising:
Private Equity and Company Transactions
Advent International on forming a global joint venture for high-performance engineering polymers with specialty chemicals group LANXESS, as well as the joint venture partners’ acquisition of Royal DSM’s DSM Engineering Materials business
Authentic Brands Group, a global brand owner, on its acquisition of Reebok from Adidas
Bregal Unternehmerkapital on acquiring a majority stake in:
ACTICO
Perfect Drive Sports Group
Medavis
SEMA
Cheplapharm on the acquisition of the US Marketing Authorization for Pulmicort Flexhaler, a Budesonide inhalation powder for the treatment of Asthma, from AstraZeneca AB
CVC on its:
Strategic partnership with adtech company ironSource
Acquisition of RGI
Dediq on its strategic partnership with SAP
EQT and OMERS on acquiring Deutsche Glasfaser from KKR
Hg on its::
Sale of F24
Acquisition of a majority stake in AUVESY
Acquisition of a majority stake in Fonds Finanz
Strategic investment in LucaNet
Sale of MEDIFOX DAN to ResMed
Acquisition of Personal und Informatik
Acquisition of a majority stake in Serrala
Sale of Transporeon to Trimble
Main Capital Partners on the sale of software company Perbility to Rivean Capital
Mainova and Dussmann on the sale of Chargemaker
Permira on its
Acquisition of a majority stake in Engel & Völkers
Investment in FlixMobility (Flixbus)
Riskified, a fraud management platform that enables frictionless eCommerce, on its IPO
SK Capital on acquiring Saint-Gobain Crystal
Sportradar Group on its IPO
Unsere Grüne Glasfaser on the acquisition of Infrafibre Germany
Strategic Advice
A publicly listed China-headquartered technology and Internet group on EU data privacy compliance for cross-border products, including products across the social media, gaming, cloud, television, and advertising space
An online trading company on using cookies and tracking technologies
An international trading company on contracts with an online advertising network
Litigation and Proceedings
SCHUFA Holding, the leading German credit information bureau, in numerous data protection litigations regarding financial information
A financial services company in litigation regarding claims for damages and data subjects’ rights under the GDPR
A healthcare service provider and pharmaceutical manufacturer on a regulatory investigation following large search-and-seizure exercise regarding allegations of systematic fraud and bribery
A global telemedia services providers on requests for information by law enforcement authorities
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
Rechtsanwalt (Germany)
Education
Second German State Exam, Higher Regional Court, Nuremberg, 2012
Dr. jur., University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 2011
First German State Exam, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 2008
Firm honored by Law360 for advising startups, financial institutions, VCs, digital asset and Web3 participants, and corporations on their most innovative and complex transactions, investigations, litigation, and regulatory matters.
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