Florian Dietrich is a digital business sector and IT law expert, advising leading digital platform providers on their innovative online business models. He also works with e-commerce and online marketing companies and agencies and advises them on all relevant legal issues, in particular e-commerce, e-payment and other fintech aspects, online advertising as well as online privacy.

As a certified IT lawyer, Florian also drafts and negotiates IT contracts, such as outsourcing agreements, software and online licensing agreements, cooperation agreements or hardware and complex software project agreements, for his clients and represents them in court in related cases. His practice furthermore covers corporate transactions and joint ventures that involve digital and IT issues.

Florian has been a partner since 2014. Before joining CMS in 2005, he was, amongst others, a research assistant at Cologne University’s Center for Transnational Law and worked in eBay’s legal department. While studying law, he also ran his own small internet company. In 2013, he spent six months on secondment with the eBay Global Privacy Team at the European headquarter of the eBay Classifieds Group in Amsterdam.