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Florian Dietrich

Rechtsanwalt | Fachanwalt für Informationstechnologierecht (Certified lawyer for IT law)

Languages

German
English

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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, his work included a position as a research assistant at Cologne University's Center for Translational Law and a position 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.

Awards & Recognitions

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Listed for IT Law

Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2025 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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„Oft empfohlen“ für IT-Recht und Datenschutz

JUVE Handbuch, 2024/2025
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Top-100 Anwalt

Kanzleimonitor 2024/2025
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Führender Anwalt IT-Recht

Kanzleimonitor 2024/2025
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Führender Anwalt Datenschutz

Kanzleimonitor 2024/2025
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Listed for IT Law

Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2024 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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„Oft empfohlen“ für IT-Recht und Datenschutz

JUVE Handbuch, 2023/2024
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Listed for IT Law

Deutschlands beste Anwälte 2023 – Handelsblatt in Kooperation mit Best Lawyers
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Führender Anwalt IT-Recht

Kanzleimonitor 2022/2023
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Führender Anwalt Datenschutz

Kanzleimonitor 2022/2023
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„Oft empfohlen“ für Technologie und Medien

JUVE Handbuch, 2022/2023
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"Dietrich, on the other hand, stands out for his deep knowledge of both national and international regulatory issues."

The Legal 500 EMEA, 2022
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"Recommended" for Information Technology and Media

JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2000-2022 (GCLF)
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"Recommended" for M&A

JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2022 (GCLF)
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"good negotiator", client

JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2022 (GCLF)
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"top lawyer who knows what he is doing", client

JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2018 (GCLF)
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"Recommended" for Information Technology

JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2018 (GCLF)
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"substantial expertise" (competitor; interface with IT)

JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2018 (GCLF)
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"Recommended" for Media

JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2018 (GCLF)
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"very flexible and practical style" (client; interface with IT)

JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2017 (GCLF)
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"well-founded specialist knowledge, great flexibility and very practical", client

JUVE German Commercial Law Firms 2017 (GCLF)

Relevant experience

Advising eBay and further multi-national e-commerce online platforms
Advising an international online travel platform
Advising an international food delivery platform
Advising one of the world's leading online payment providers
Advising AXA Konzern AG on a joint venture with CompuGroup Medical (CGM) in order to set up a digital solution for private health insurance companies via a secure cloud infrastructure
Advising an international supermarket chain on setting up its online shop including ‘pick up in store‘ solutions

Publications

"Online-Dienste, E-Commerce, Internet, Domains", Münchener Vertragshandbuch (Wirtschaftsrecht II, Band 3), Verlag C.H. Beck, 8th editions 2021
"App-Marketing – Rechtliche Tipps & Tricks, Gesetzliche und vertragliche Bedingungen für die Vermarktung von Apps, insbesondere über Werbenetzwerke", Handbuch Praxis Mobiles Internet: Analysen – Konzepte – Best Practice, Denk!Institut Verlag, Königswinter 2015, S. 149-164, ISBN 978-3-936940-10-7
Rezension von Bittner/Clausnitzer/Föhlisch, "Das neue Verbrauchervertragsrecht", Computer und Recht (CR), ISSN 0179-1990, Dr. Otto Schmidt Verlag KG 2014, p. R100
"Facebook's 'Sponsored Stories' – ein personenbezogenes unlauteres Vergnügen", Computer und Recht (CR), ISSN 0179-1990, Dr. Otto Schmidt Verlag KG 2013, p. 104-110
Computer und Recht (CR), Computer und Recht (CR), ISSN 0179-1990, Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt KG 2010, p. 137-138
Computer und Recht (CR), Computer und Recht (CR), ISSN 0179-1990, Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt KG 2010, p. 602-606
Keine Haftung für Snippet in Suchmaschinenergebnis - Anm. zu OLG Stuttgart 4 U 109/08, Computer und Recht (CR), ISSN 0179-1990, Dr. Otto Schmidt Verlag KG 2009, p. 188-189
Prüfpflichten des Werbenden bei AdWord-Option "Weitestgehend passende Keywords", Computer und Recht (CR), ISSN 0179-1990, Dr. Otto Schmidt Verlag KG 2008, p. 736-738
Anmerkung zu OLG Hamburg 5 W 92/07 (Keine Textform für Informationspflichten gem. § 312c Abs. 1 BGB), Computer und Recht (CR), Dr. Otto Schmidt 2007, p. 660 ff
3...Gerichte, 2...Wochen, 1...Monat? Konfusion um die Widerrufsfristen bei eBay, Computer und Recht (CR), Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt 2007, p. 318 ff
"Haftungsrisiken bei Affiliate-Programmen", Update Technology 2006
Virtuelle Videorecorder (PVRs) im rechtlichen Abseits?, Update Technology 2006
Online-Auktionen, Eine Einführung in die wichtigsten rechtlichen Aspekte, Band 3 der Schriftenreihe Electronic Commerce und Recht, "Typische Inhalte von Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen bei Online-Auktionen und deren Vereinbarkeit mit AGB-Vorschriften", Erich Schmidt Verlag 2002

Memberships & Roles

DGRI German Association for Law and Information Technology
BVDW (Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft)

Lectures list

"The EU Digital Services Act (DSA) – Who the new regulations apply to and what needs to be considered", lecture at the regional group meeting of the Federal Association of Corporate Lawyers (BUJ), Cologne, 18.06.2024
"The EU's Representative Actions Directive (EU) 2020/1828 and its implementation in Germany", Client Online Training, 23 05.2024
"Datenschutz und IT-rechtliche Aspekte bei der Nutzung von Cloud-Dienstleistungen und BDAI im Versicherungsbereich", Vortrag in Köln, 09.04.2019
"Online-Videorecorder", Vortrag an der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Rahmen des Freiburger Forums Wirtschaftsrecht, 31.01.2014
"AGB im B2C-Massengeschäft", ganztägiger Mandantenworkshop, München, 04.12.2013
"Recht.Agentur.Digital", Legal Workshop für eine Kreativ-Agentur, Hamburg, 24.02.2012
"Vergleichen lohnt sich…? Neues zur vergleichenden Werbung", lecture on comparative advertising, Cologne, March 2007
"Typical content of general terms and conditions of business for online auctions and their compatibility with general terms and conditions of business", lecture at joint event with the former Ricardo AG, Hamburg 2001

Education

2009: Qualification as a certified lawyer for IT law
2005: Second state examination in law
2005: Trainee with the European eBay legal department in Berlin/Dreilinden
2003 - 2004: Freelance IP/IT and media work for CMS in Cologne (then: Norton Rose Vieregge)
2003: Research assistant at Cologne University’s Center for Transnational Law
2002: First state examination in law
1997 - 2000: Special English-language training for lawyers including a training period with the Crown Prosecutor’s Office in Edmonton, Canada
1999: Trainee with the German Federal Network Agency, Bonn
1997 - 2002: Law studies at the University of Münster

Practice Areas

In-Court and Out-of-Court Representation Copyright

sectors

TMC - Technology, Media & Communications Data Protection Law & IT Security Law IT Law Media Law

topics

e-Privacy Digital Transformation

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