- Dr. Felix Wittern
- Partner, Hamburg
- Field Fisher Waterhouse
- felix.wittern@ffw.com
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Dr. Felix Wittern is Partner in the Hamburg office of
Field Fisher Waterhouse. 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.
He also advises on telecommunications law including regulation
issues as well as on business outsourcing proceedings.
Felix acts as data protection officer (DPO) in
numerous companies and for many years he has been a very active
figure in data protection law. He gives support with the
implementation of concepts for international data transfers and
develops critical application areas and databases together with his
clients’ internal DPOs.
Felix focuses on the media and information
technology sectors. He also advises online travel agencies as
well as start up companies and internet companies on data
protection issues. He also assists with technical questions on
project management as well as on expedient website
configurations.
Previously Felix worked in the IT group at
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He also has seven years’ sector
experience from his position at AOL as Deputy General Counsel where
he looked after the legal developments for technical and
content-related issues as well as numerous central technical
agreements and call centre contracts.
Felix studied in Hamburg and San Francisco
with focus on information law and communications. He wrote a
doctoral thesis on privacy law.
Felix is a mediator (DAA) and is qualified for
the additional specialisation „Fachanwalt für IT-Recht”
(“Specialist Attorney for IT Law”).
Felix has published in the leading commentary
on telecommunications law with respect to data protection and data
security provisions and he is co-author of the book “Data
protection laws of the world” for Germany. He has published several
articles regarding cloud computing and outsourcing and regularly
speaks on data protection issues at German and international
seminars.
Felix advises his clients in German and English.