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Dr. Michael Kraus

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

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Dr. Michael Kraus

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

CMS Hasche Sigle
Schoettlestraße 8
70597 Stuttgart
Germany
Languages German, English, Spanish

Michael Kraus represents and advises companies on all aspects of IT and data protection law. He specialises in IT and outsourcing contracts and in this context primarily advises companies in the finance and insurance industry on e-finance matters. Michael’s practice also includes all IT law aspects of new technologies, such as automation (Industry 4.0), fintech, IoT (Internet of Things), connected cars and big data and he advises his clients on new digital business models. In the context of M&A transactions, Michael drafts and negotiates transitional services agreements. He advises selected start-ups through the CMS equIP programme.

Michael joined CMS in 2010 and is also involved in the training of young lawyers as a lecturer at Ulm Regional Court.

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Relevant experience


  • Advising a German stock exchange on the implementation and outsourcing of a new stock exchange trading system
  • Advising several financial services institutions on first and second generation IT outsourcing as well as on the implementation of an electronic payment system
  • Advising an international IT company on the outsourcing of the administrative selection and commissioning processes for external staff
  • Advising Savills plc on the acquisition of SEB Asset Management AG
  • Advising Solar A/S on the sale of its German business division
  • Advising Implenia on the acquisition of Bilfinger’s infrastructure division
  • Advising Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe on the implementation of the new payment system "paydirekt"
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Memberships & Roles


  • German Association of Law and Informatics (DGRI)
  • Baden Württemberg: Connected e.V. (bwcon)
  • Club der Altstipendiaten (CdAS) der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung
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Publications


  • IT-Compliance bei FinTech-Investments – was zu beachten ist, wenn Banken bei FinTechs einsteigen, IT-Finanzmagazin 28.09.2016 (together with Dr Heckmann)
  • Recht und Compliance: Kein Welpenschutz für FinTechs, gi Geldinstitute 5/2016, S. 22 (together with Dr Heckmann)
  • 6 rechtliche Fallstricke bei Fintech-Investments, Das Investment 26.09.2016 (together with Dr Heckmann)
  • "Datenlizenzverträge", in: Taeger (Hrsg.), Internet der Dinge - Digitalisierung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 2015, S. 537-549.
  • "Keine Verfügungsbefugnis des Herstellers einer Datenverarbeitungsanlage über damit erzeugte Daten" – Urteilsanmerkung zu OLG Naumburg, Urteil vom 27.08.2014 – 6 U 3/14, Recht Automobil Wirtschaft (RAW), 2015, S. 60.
  • "Telematik – Wem gehören Fahrzeugdaten?", in: Taeger (Hrsg.), Big Data & Co – Neue Herausforderungen für das Informationsrecht, 2014, S. 377 – 390.
  • "Jede Millisekunde zählt – Service Level Agreements im Banken- und Börsensektor", in: Taeger (Hrsg.), Law as a Service (LaaS) – Recht im Internet- und Cloud-Zeitalter, Band 2, 2013, S. 891 – 909.
  • Rechtsstaatliche Terrorismusbekämpfung im Straf- und Strafprozessrecht, Frankfurt am Main et al., 2012 (Augsburger Studien zum Internationalen Recht; Band 9)
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Lectures list


  • "TSA im M&A-Projekt", Vortrag auf dem Geschäftsbereichstreffen des Geschäftsbereichs TMC am 10. Oktober 2015.
  • "TSA im M&A-Projekt", Vortrag bei der Sitzung des Geschäftsbereichs Gesellschaftsrecht, Schwerpunkt M&A/Private Equity in Stuttgart am 12. Juni 2015.
  • "Datenlizenzverträge", Vortrag bei der 16. DSRI-Herbstakademie 2015 in Göttingen.
  • "Big Data und das Konzept einer Datenverfügungsbefugnis", Vortrag auf dem Geschäftsbereichstreffen der Geschäftsbereiche TMT und IP in Stuttgart, 11.10.2014.
  • "Telematik – Wem gehören Fahrzeugdaten?", Vortrag bei der 15. DSRI-Herbstakademie 2014 in Mainz, 12.09.2014.
  • "Regulierung des Algorithmischen- und des Hochfrequenzhandels", Vortrag auf dem Fachbereichstreffen des Fachbereichs TMT, 19.10.2013.
  • "Jede Millisekunde zählt – Service Level Agreements im Banken- und Börsensektor", Vortrag bei der 14. DSRI-Herbstakademie 2013 in Berlin.
  • "Outsourcing", Vortrag an der Universität Tübingen, 24.01.2013.
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Education


  • 2015: Qualified as a certified lawyer for IT law
  • 2011: PhD; thesis on how a state governed by the rule of law can fight terrorism by means of criminal law and criminal procedure law
  • 2010: Second state examination in law
  • 2008 - 2010: Trainee lawyer at Ravensburg Regional Court including stints with CMS Hasche Sigle in Stuttgart and McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Montréal, Canada
  • 2006: First state examination in law
  • 2000 - 2006: Law studies at the University of Augsburg and the University CEU San Pablo in Madrid, Spain
  • Hanns Seidel Foundation scholar
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24/03/2021
CMS ad­vises four mail ser­vice pro­viders on ac­quis­i­tion of 80% of shares...
Stut­tgart – Four re­gion­al mail ser­vice pro­viders (CITI­POST GmbH, FUNKE Lo­gistik GmbH, pd.MEDI­EN­LO­GISTIK GmbH and PIN AG) have ac­quired a total of 80% of the shares in Würzburg-based mail­worXs GmbH...
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Stut­tgart – De­meter, a ma­jor European private equity in­vestor in the sus­tain­ab­il­ity seg­ment, has in­ves­ted in Cuc­u­lus GmbH, a lead­er in the de­vel­op­ment of soft­ware solu­tions for crit­ic­al in­fra­struc­ture...
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20/01/2021
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Ham­burg – NORD/LB is re­or­gan­ising its IT and pro­cess ar­chi­tec­ture to cre­ate a new man­age­ment and con­trol sys­tem. The pro­ject brings to­geth­er the rel­ev­ant core dis­cip­lines (re­port­ing, ac­count­ing, fin­an­cial...
Deal (News) TMC - Technology, Media & Communications
27/07/2020
CMS ad­vises real es­tate ser­vice pro­vider Savills on ac­quis­i­tion of prop­erty...
Stut­tgart – Real es­tate ser­vice com­pany Savills has ac­quired prop­erty and fa­cil­it­ies man­age­ment com­pan­ies OMEGA Im­mob­i­li­en Man­age­ment GmbH and OMEGA Im­mob­i­li­en Ser­vice GmbH. Savills is us­ing the ac­quis­i­tion...
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03/12/2019
CMS ad­vises GPE and capiton on ac­quis­i­tion of NIC­OLAY Group
Stut­tgart – The GPE Group has ac­quired all the shares in the NIC­OLAY Group, a man­u­fac­turer of products used for non-in­vas­ive pa­tient mon­it­or­ing. The deal fur­ther strengthens GPE’s ex­pert­ise in med­ic­al...
Deal (News) Private Equity & Venture Capital
19/08/2019
CMS ad­vises Magen­wirth Group on sale of com­pan­ies and joint ven­ture form­a­tion
Stut­tgart – Robert Bosch GmbH has ac­quired a 50% stake in the MAGURA Bike Parts Group. The lat­ter mainly com­prises Magura Bike Parts GmbH & Co. KG and its gen­er­al part­ner, Magura GmbH, which own sev­er­al...
Deal (News) Commercial
03/05/2019
CMS ad­vises founders of Cata­lysts on in­teg­ra­tion in­to new IT ser­vice pro­vider...
Stut­tgart – Aus­tri­an firm Cata­lysts GmbH is set to be­come part of newly es­tab­lished IT ser­vice pro­vider Cloud­f­light. Cata­lysts spe­cial­ises in di­git­al­isa­tion and cloud trans­form­a­tion. DBAG Fund VII...
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09/08/2018
CMS ad­vises Gas­Ver­sor­gung Süd­deutsch­land on es­tab­lish­ing in­nov­at­ive ten­der­ing...
Stut­tgart – Gas­Ver­sor­gung Süd­deutsch­land GmbH (GVS) and EX­XETA AG re­cently signed the memor­andum of as­so­ci­ation for Tender365 GmbH. The re­gis­tra­tion phase for the di­git­al elec­tri­city and gas ten­der­ing...
Deal (News) Digital Transformation
09/08/2018
CMS ad­vises Ob­ject­ive Soft­ware share­hold­ers on sale of com­pany to US soft­ware...
Stut­tgart – The share­hold­ers in Ob­ject­ive Soft­ware GmbH have sold their shares in the com­pany to Luxoft, Inc. By ac­quir­ing Ob­ject­ive, Luxoft gains ac­cess to ad­vanced solu­tions in the auto­mot­ive sec­tor...
Deal (News) Corporate / M&A
17/07/2018
CMS ad­vises IT con­sult­ing group NTT DATA on ac­quis­i­tion of deal­er man­age­ment...
Stut­tgart – NTT DATA EMEA Ltd., part of IT ser­vice pro­vider NTT DATA, has ac­quired auto­mot­ive sales and after-sales spe­cial­ist gen-ius dms GmbH. The parties agreed not to dis­close de­tails of the pur­chase...
Deal (News) Corporate / M&A
27 June 2018
You, Ro­bot
More and more, com­pan­ies are us­ing chat­bots, for ex­ample to set up con­tracts. This poses some leg­al ques­tions, es­pe­cially re­lat­ing to the un­der­ly­ing de­clar­a­tion of in­tent.Already in 1966, the com­puter...
Publication Digital Transformation
26/01/2018
CMS ad­vises Swedish ap­pli­ance com­pany, Elec­trolux, on ac­quis­i­tion of Schneidereit...
Stut­tgart – The Swedish ap­pli­ance com­pany, Elec­trolux, has ac­quired Schneidereit GmbH.A team from CMS Ger­many led by lead part­ner Dr Thomas Meyding ad­vised Elec­trolux on all leg­al as­pects of the trans­ac­tion...
Deal (News) Mergers & Acquisitions
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