Partner

IP & IT, Competition & Antitrust

Expertise

Chris is a “tech-lawyer” and has specialised in IT, competition law and intellectual property for several years.

As a specialist lawyer for IT law, he advises companies on e-Commerce, IT products and services, competition and trademark issues and drafts IT contracts and legal texts (T&C, ToU, data protection).

Chris has many years of industry experience in the tech and online sector, so that his clients benefit not only from his specialised legal advice but also from his strategic expertise, particularly when introducing new products.

In addition to his work as a lawyer, he is a lecturer in IT and media law at one of the largest private universities in Europe (FOM).

Christoph Advises

  • Tech companies
  • E-Commerce
  • Start-ups
  • SMEs
  • Legal/marketing departments of large companies

Experience Highlights

  • Advising a global logistics company on a 7-digit IT project
  • Advising a global medical company on the procurement of IT services and an escrow agreement
  • Advising a nation-wide tech company on the distribution and licensing of hardware and software products for the retail sector
  • Defence of a company operating throughout Germany in the energy sector against a competition law claim brought by a market-leading competitor

Career History

Previous Law firms

  • 2016 – 2024: B/R/K/S, Kassel, Lawyer
  • 2015: Noerr, Berlin, Trainee Lawyer
  • 2013 – 2014: Luther, Leipzig, Research Associate
  • 2012: Jones Day, Frankfurt am Main, Research Associate

Memberships

  • GRUR (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and Copyright)

Education

  • 2014 – 2016: Legal clerkship at the District Court of Leipzig
  • 2012 – 2015: Philipps University Marburg, doctoral studies
  • 2006 – 2012: Philipps University of Marburg, law studies
  • 2009 – 2010: Universidad de Alicante (Spain), Erasmus

Other

  • Modifikationen von Zusammenschlussvorhaben nach Freigabe, FIW-Schriftenreihe, 2015
  • „Staatliches Handeln und Kartellrecht“, ZWeR 2014, S. 3 – 31, gem. mit M. Kling

 

 

 

Christoph 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).

Expertise

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Chris is a “tech-lawyer” and has specialised in IT, competition law and intellectual property for several years.

As a specialist lawyer for IT law, he advises companies on e-Commerce, IT products and services, competition and trademark issues and drafts IT contracts and legal texts (T&C, ToU, data protection).

Chris has many years of industry experience in the tech and online sector, so that his clients benefit not only from his specialised legal advice but also from his strategic expertise, particularly when introducing new products.

In addition to his work as a lawyer, he is a lecturer in IT and media law at one of the largest private universities in Europe (FOM).

Christoph Advises

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  • Tech companies
  • E-Commerce
  • Start-ups
  • SMEs
  • Legal/marketing departments of large companies

Experience Highlights

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  • Advising a global logistics company on a 7-digit IT project
  • Advising a global medical company on the procurement of IT services and an escrow agreement
  • Advising a nation-wide tech company on the distribution and licensing of hardware and software products for the retail sector
  • Defence of a company operating throughout Germany in the energy sector against a competition law claim brought by a market-leading competitor

Career History

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Previous Law firms

  • 2016 – 2024: B/R/K/S, Kassel, Lawyer
  • 2015: Noerr, Berlin, Trainee Lawyer
  • 2013 – 2014: Luther, Leipzig, Research Associate
  • 2012: Jones Day, Frankfurt am Main, Research Associate

Memberships

  • GRUR (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and Copyright)

Education

  • 2014 – 2016: Legal clerkship at the District Court of Leipzig
  • 2012 – 2015: Philipps University Marburg, doctoral studies
  • 2006 – 2012: Philipps University of Marburg, law studies
  • 2009 – 2010: Universidad de Alicante (Spain), Erasmus

Other

  • Modifikationen von Zusammenschlussvorhaben nach Freigabe, FIW-Schriftenreihe, 2015
  • „Staatliches Handeln und Kartellrecht“, ZWeR 2014, S. 3 – 31, gem. mit M. Kling

 

 

 

Christoph 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).