Anna advises companies on all aspects of data protection law and data protection compliance. Her particular focus is on providing data protection advice on data driven business models and business model-related issues in the context of innovative technologies, including in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning and health tech. Another focus is on advising providers from the crypto and web3 space, such as wallet and blockchain providers, routing aggregators and web3 gaming platforms on data protection issues.
Her advice, further, extends to strategic advice on data protection incidents and in regulatory proceedings.
Anna’s advisory practice also includes data protection advice in the context of internal investigations on cross-cutting issues such as the permissibility of e-mail screening, the handling of private data, information and disclosure obligations, as well as data transfers to (foreign) authorities and parties to proceedings.
Additionally, Anna advises investors and companies on data protection law in the context of venture capital and M&A transactions, with a particular focus on innovative technologies.
Education and Career
Anna studied law in Berlin, Milan and London. During her legal traineeship, Anna worked for a large international law firm and the German Federal Foreign Office. Subsequently, Anna completed a Master of Laws at University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford (USA).
Before joining YPOG, Anna worked as a Senior Associate at the international law firm Hengeler Mueller Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB focusing on public and regulatory law, especially on data protection law.
Experience
Most recently, Anna advised in particular on the following matters:
- Legal and strategic advice to an international PE investor in the context of regulatory proceedings
- Data protection advice for chatbots, in particular in connection with customer care services
- Data protection support for the first commercial provider of 3D avatars based on NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields) technology for transforming 2D images during market launch in the B2B and B2C sector
- Data protection advice on the scraping of public data
- Data protection advice for the leading aggregator of bridging services
- Advising numerous companies on business model-related issues
- Data protection advice for a variety of leading providers of crypto wallets in the B2B and B2C sector
- Data protection compliance advice for various AI and tech companies
- Data Protection advice in connection with numerous transactions, particularly in connection with innovative technologies and in the health tech sector
Speeches
- The European AI Regulation: Rules and Implementation Notes
Deutscher Fachverlag, 13. Juni 2024
- Transfer of Personal Data in M&A Transactions, Data Protection in Transactions
Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH, 14 June 2023
Qualifications
- German qualified attorney (Rechtsanwältin)
- LL.M. (University of Connecticut)
Languages
- German
- English
- Countdown Data Act: 15 Kernpunkte zur Verordnung über harmonisierte Vorschriften für einen fairen Datenzugang und eine faire Datennutzung
YPOG Briefing, October 10, 2024 [in German] - The re-use of personal data by the processor using the example of training data for artificial intelligence
YPOG Briefing, March 22, 2022 [in German] - Joint responsibility under Article 26 GDPR between group companies as part of GDPR compliance
Der Konzern 2019, pp. 289 et seqq. (together with Dr. Vera Jungkind and Dr. Thomas Ruthemeyer) [in German]
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