Vadim Friedinger

Expertise Vadim Advises Experience Highlights Career History

Partner

Data Protection, IT & Commercial Law

+49 30 220 131 000

Expertise

Vadim Friedinger is an experienced lawyer for data protection, IT law and outsourcing who specializes in providing comprehensive, practical advice to companies on relevant issues (in particular with cross-border implications).

He has over 12 years of experience in providing legal advice, both as a lawyer and as in-house counsel. For over 6 years, he has been advising companies and groups as an external data protection officer, auditing companies for compliance in the areas of data protection and data security and providing support in the introduction and optimization of data protection management systems.

He is certified as an ISO IEC 27001 auditor (TÜV).

Vadim Advises

  • Medium-sized companies, listed stock corporations, start-ups
  • primarily in the areas of healthcare (pharmaceutical companies, pharmaceutical service providers, conducting clinical trials), finance,
    automotive/mobility, retail

Experience Highlights

  • Drafting a comprehensive legal opinion on the use of vehicle data for a German automobile manufacturer
  • Advising a Swiss pharmaceutical group on data protection law in various high-volume M&A transactions and projects
  • Drafting a legal opinion for a German start-up on the use of vehicle and driver data by the city of Paris for the purpose
    of traffic control
  • Advising a leading German energy supplier on the outsourcing of key IT functions
  • Advising a leading German credit institution on the assertion of claims for damages following a failed IT outsourcing project
  • Preparation of general terms and conditions for a German credit card acquirer

Career History

Previous Law firms

  • 09/2017 – 11/2023: activeMind.legal Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin office, location manager, lawyer/partner
  • 2020 -11/2023: activeMind AG, Munich, Member of the Management Board
  • 08/2016 – 08/2017: Self-employed lawyer, Berlin
  • 12/2015 – 07/2016: Fyber GmbH, Berlin, Legal Counsel
  • 06/2013 – 11/2015: Linklaters LLP, Frankfurt a.M., Associate / Lawyer
  • 03/2011 – 05/2013: Heymann & Partner (today: Covington and Burling LLP), Frankfurt a.M., Associate / Law

Education

  •  University of Tuebingen

 

 

 

 

Vadim 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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Vadim Friedinger is an experienced lawyer for data protection, IT law and outsourcing who specializes in providing comprehensive, practical advice to companies on relevant issues (in particular with cross-border implications).

He has over 12 years of experience in providing legal advice, both as a lawyer and as in-house counsel. For over 6 years, he has been advising companies and groups as an external data protection officer, auditing companies for compliance in the areas of data protection and data security and providing support in the introduction and optimization of data protection management systems.

He is certified as an ISO IEC 27001 auditor (TÜV).

Vadim Advises

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  • Medium-sized companies, listed stock corporations, start-ups
  • primarily in the areas of healthcare (pharmaceutical companies, pharmaceutical service providers, conducting clinical trials), finance,
    automotive/mobility, retail

Experience Highlights

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  • Drafting a comprehensive legal opinion on the use of vehicle data for a German automobile manufacturer
  • Advising a Swiss pharmaceutical group on data protection law in various high-volume M&A transactions and projects
  • Drafting a legal opinion for a German start-up on the use of vehicle and driver data by the city of Paris for the purpose
    of traffic control
  • Advising a leading German energy supplier on the outsourcing of key IT functions
  • Advising a leading German credit institution on the assertion of claims for damages following a failed IT outsourcing project
  • Preparation of general terms and conditions for a German credit card acquirer

Career History

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Previous Law firms

  • 09/2017 – 11/2023: activeMind.legal Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin office, location manager, lawyer/partner
  • 2020 -11/2023: activeMind AG, Munich, Member of the Management Board
  • 08/2016 – 08/2017: Self-employed lawyer, Berlin
  • 12/2015 – 07/2016: Fyber GmbH, Berlin, Legal Counsel
  • 06/2013 – 11/2015: Linklaters LLP, Frankfurt a.M., Associate / Lawyer
  • 03/2011 – 05/2013: Heymann & Partner (today: Covington and Burling LLP), Frankfurt a.M., Associate / Law

Education

  •  University of Tuebingen

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Vadim 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).