Werner Bachmann

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IT, Data Protection & Security

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Expertise

Werner Bachmann is a lawyer with extensive legal and technical expertise in the field of information technology, currently focusing on cyber security and artificial intelligence.

In 26 years of legal practice, he has played a leading role in countless projects accompanying the digital transformation of economic sectors ranging from telecommunications to financial services, industrial manufacturing, and healthcare. His expertise includes software technology—its development, licensing, and implementation—as well as the enforcement of open-access strategies, particularly in the field of scientific research.

He is an excellent case handler in cyber-attack scenarios that threaten the business continuity of companies, from cooperation with authorities to the enforcement of claims against insurers. In the digital modernisation of the healthcare sector, he primarily advises hospitals and other service providers on transformation projects.

Werner Advises

  • National and international undertakings on digital transformation projects, particularly in the healthcare sector
  • Company founders and start-ups on building and developing business models based on digital products or licensed information
  • Undertakings affected by cyberattacks or wishing to implement preventive risk management models against cyber risks that threaten to endanger their existence.
  • IT procurement projects by public sector buyers

Experience Highlights

  • Implementation and enforcement of open access strategies for scientific research results against oligopolistic publishers
  • Cyberattack on three data centres with complete encryption of hundreds of customer systems, incident response and incident management, communication with regulatory and law enforcement agencies, and damage management vis-à-vis customers and insurers
  • Development of an IT platform for consolidating and syndicating booking and customer data for public transport
  • Procurement procedure of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure for the production and operation of a mobility data platform (“MDP”).
  • Establishment and licensing of an “app store” of industrial applications for an international ERP manufacturer
  • Procurement and financing in the context of change management programs (future fund for the healthcare sector) in university hospitals
  • Design and implementation of sales strategies for security products in the German healthcare procurement market (i.e., single sign-on, identity management)
  • Transformation of business processes for outpatient care services into fully digitalized, highly efficient companies; legal structuring and implementation of growth strategies, including M&A transactions.
  • Supply chain management and revision negotiation of supply and financing agreements to ensure the economic survival of suppliers in the current market upheavals.

Career History

Previous Experience

  • FRIEDRICH GRAF VON WESTPHALEN & PARTNER mbB
    • 1.1.2024 – 14.10.2025 Of Counsel
    • 1.1.2006 – 31.12.2023 Equity Partner
    • 1.7.1999 – 31.12.2005 Counsel, Head of Brussels Office

Memberships

  • Freiburg Bar Association
  • German Bar Association

Education

  • Second bar exam: Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court
  • First state law examination: University of Freiburg

Awards

  • Best Lawyers & Handelsblatt: Information Technology

 

 

 

 

Werner is a partner in gunnercooke GmbH, whose registered office is Kurfuerstendamm 15, 10719 Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 224488 B. All lawyers of gunnercooke GmbH are admitted either in Germany or Austria to practise as Rechtsanwalt or Rechtsanwaeltin and are members of and regulated by the relevant local Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).

 

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Werner Bachmann is a lawyer with extensive legal and technical expertise in the field of information technology, currently focusing on cyber security and artificial intelligence.

In 26 years of legal practice, he has played a leading role in countless projects accompanying the digital transformation of economic sectors ranging from telecommunications to financial services, industrial manufacturing, and healthcare. His expertise includes software technology—its development, licensing, and implementation—as well as the enforcement of open-access strategies, particularly in the field of scientific research.

He is an excellent case handler in cyber-attack scenarios that threaten the business continuity of companies, from cooperation with authorities to the enforcement of claims against insurers. In the digital modernisation of the healthcare sector, he primarily advises hospitals and other service providers on transformation projects.

Werner Advises

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  • National and international undertakings on digital transformation projects, particularly in the healthcare sector
  • Company founders and start-ups on building and developing business models based on digital products or licensed information
  • Undertakings affected by cyberattacks or wishing to implement preventive risk management models against cyber risks that threaten to endanger their existence.
  • IT procurement projects by public sector buyers

Experience Highlights

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  • Implementation and enforcement of open access strategies for scientific research results against oligopolistic publishers
  • Cyberattack on three data centres with complete encryption of hundreds of customer systems, incident response and incident management, communication with regulatory and law enforcement agencies, and damage management vis-à-vis customers and insurers
  • Development of an IT platform for consolidating and syndicating booking and customer data for public transport
  • Procurement procedure of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure for the production and operation of a mobility data platform (“MDP”).
  • Establishment and licensing of an “app store” of industrial applications for an international ERP manufacturer
  • Procurement and financing in the context of change management programs (future fund for the healthcare sector) in university hospitals
  • Design and implementation of sales strategies for security products in the German healthcare procurement market (i.e., single sign-on, identity management)
  • Transformation of business processes for outpatient care services into fully digitalized, highly efficient companies; legal structuring and implementation of growth strategies, including M&A transactions.
  • Supply chain management and revision negotiation of supply and financing agreements to ensure the economic survival of suppliers in the current market upheavals.

Career History

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Previous Experience

  • FRIEDRICH GRAF VON WESTPHALEN & PARTNER mbB
    • 1.1.2024 – 14.10.2025 Of Counsel
    • 1.1.2006 – 31.12.2023 Equity Partner
    • 1.7.1999 – 31.12.2005 Counsel, Head of Brussels Office

Memberships

  • Freiburg Bar Association
  • German Bar Association

Education

  • Second bar exam: Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court
  • First state law examination: University of Freiburg

Awards

  • Best Lawyers & Handelsblatt: Information Technology

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Werner is a partner in gunnercooke GmbH, whose registered office is Kurfuerstendamm 15, 10719 Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 224488 B. All lawyers of gunnercooke GmbH are admitted either in Germany or Austria to practise as Rechtsanwalt or Rechtsanwaeltin and are members of and regulated by the relevant local Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).