Oliver Huq

Expertise Oliver Advises Experience Highlights Career History

Partner

Commercial, Data Protection & Compliance, Intellectual Property & IT

Expertise

Oliver Huq is a lawyer with over fifteen years of professional experience. He advises companies on almost all legal matters that may arise and is characterised by his practice-oriented work and hands-on mentality. Oliver’s clients include global IT companies as well as tech innovators and disruptors covering a wide range of industries from software development to engineering to mobility, medical and military.

Oliver can also advise his clients as legal counsel if their in-house lawyer is temporarily unavailable or if there is no in-house legal department at all.

Oliver advises on all civil and contract law matters (e.g. construction law, distribution, service, consortium and supply agreements, general terms and conditions, cooperation and non-disclosure agreements etc.), employment law (employment contracts, terminations, outsourcing etc.), competition law (prosecution of competition law infringements and defence against warnings etc.), corporate law (e.g. corporate housekeeping, compliance management etc.) and the law of unfair competition, corporate law (e.g. corporate housekeeping, compliance management and data protection etc.), distribution and antitrust issues as well as trademark and other intellectual property matters (copyrights, IP rights etc.).

As part of his expertise in press law as a long-standing IT editor, he is also happy to advise in administrative proceedings (right to information under press law vis-à-vis authorities, etc.) and is happy to support in developing a strong corporate communications strategy from a legal and a PR perspective.

Oliver supports and represents his clients in negotiations and in legal disputes in and out of court. He advises on issues relating to company succession, estate planning and the protection of companies under matrimonial law.

Oliver Advises

(international) companies of all kinds, including multinational corporations, medium-sized companies and investors, but also non-profit organisations and individuals
from the fields of information technology, logistics & transport, mechanical engineering, medical care centres, fashion & clothing and gastronomy
owner-managed medium-sized companies
corporations
managing directors, managers and shareholders
company founders

Experience Highlights

Legal support in proceedings for the compensation of forced labourers from World War II in the USA
Legal advice on two M&A transactions in connection with the acquisition of a German company by a US-American company
Legal support for an international start-up from its foundation through to customer business in the disruptive IP sector
Legal support and advice as well as contractual implementation of a joint venture between two internationally active German mechanical engineering companies
Supporting and advising several medium-sized companies on the introduction and implementation of new, technology-driven business models
Legal and judicial support in an extensive property developer liability case in connection with the new construction of a modular office building.
Legal support up to the point of signature in the contractual drafting of a joint venture framework agreement between two major international corporations
Development, drafting and negotiation of a consortium agreement for an international mechanical engineering project
Development, drafting and negotiation of a consortium agreement for an international engineering project
Drafting and negotiation of a wet lease agreement for the lease of an aircraft and crew by an airline
Advice, negotiation and enforcement of IP rights vis-à-vis a Chinese company (mechanical engineering sector)

Career History

Previous Law firms/Positions

Since 09/2009 ConficEssence (until 04/2022 law firm Huq), Ratingen
01/2018 – 04/2022 Schumacher & Partner Rae, Düsseldorf, Head of department: GTCs and (international) contracts, B2B corporate advice; compliance; lectures and pitches
07/2013 – 12/2017 German Car Rental Assosiation, Haan, Managing Director
07/2011 – 06/2013 Heise Verlag, Hanover, Editorial dep. c’t, Mac&i, Editor
01/2008 – 05/2013 Ebner Verlag Ulm, Munich, Editorial dep. MACup, Editor
11/2004 – 12/2007 ReviloQ, product and IT consulting (clients: Apple, Toshiba, Grundig, Lamborghini), self-employed

Memberships

2009 German Bar Association
2009 Düsseldorf Bar Association
2022 AG IT in the DAV
2023 AG International Business Law in the DAV

Education

11/2021 – 04/2022 Specialist lawyer course for international business law
10/2019 – Beck Academy training course on “Swiss contract law”
02/2018 – 05/1018 Course at the etz in Stuttgart: “Personnel development is a matter for the boss”
05/2005 – 07/2007 Legal clerkship in Düsseldorf and New York
04/1997 – 10/2004 Studied law at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen and at the Università degli Studi di Bologna (IT)

Other

Oliver publishes and is available as a speaker and lecturer:
Publications (excerpts)
02/2021 Huq/Verheyen, “Messenger datenschutzkonform in Unternehmen einsetzen” in Kommunikation & Recht
12/2021 “One data protection, please! Restaurateurs, guest lists and data protection (Oliver Huq)”, article in “Restaurant 2.0”, 1st ed. 2022
Articles in c’t – Magazin für Computertechnik, Mac&i, PC-Professional, MACup, among others

Oliver 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).