After having worked as a foreign associate at Bryan Cave in Washington, D.C., and as an associate at Hengeler Mueller in Frankfurt am Main, I joined the Kirch Group in Munich and, as head of the legal department of the start-up DF 1 Digitales Fernsehen, helped to establish the first German platform for digital television. I then deepened my specialization in legal issues of the TMT industries as a partner at BBLP Beiten Burkhardt and in over 21 years as one of the founding partners of McDermott Will & Emery in Germany, my second start-up.
Since January 2023, I have been sailing under my own flag with my third start-up: Weisser Rechtsanwalt. As you know, all good things come in threes!

Advising Deutsche Telekom AG on a variety of projects, including purchasing VOD film rights from Hollywood studios, founding the first IPTV provider (now MagentaTV), setting up the digital Tolino platform for e-books, cooperation to establish the European Aviation Network for data traffic with airplanes
Telefónica Deutschland, Intersnack and Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller on extensive IT outsourcing projects, in some cases with personnel transfers
Naspers on the establishment of the new business field of mobile television (DVB-H)
Deutschlandradio in court proceedings against Unity Media in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Mannheim and Karlsruhe on the termination of their cable distribution agreements
Numerous M&A projects and other transactions
Drafting and negotiation of many IT, media and telecoms contracts (including SaaS, app development, software licensing, media distribution and copyrights licensing, sponsoring, cooperation)
Litigation in the areas of IT, media, telecommunications and general commercial law, including arbitration proceedings

Advising the Bavarian Cable TV Consortium on the planned acquisition of the Bavarian regional cable network from Deutsche Telekom AG
Litigation for Primacom AG in civil court proceedings on the analog switch-off of television broadcasters in Leipzig
Advising companies in the media and telecommunications sectors on the drafting of contracts and on regulatory issues, in particular on the licensing and distribution of television and radio programs

Establishment and leadership of the legal department of the first German digital TV platform
Acquisition of broadcasting license by public law agreement with the Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM)
Representation of DF 1’s interests in various court proceedings, especially with competitor Premiere AG
Negotiation of contracts with third-party broadcasters and rights holders
Representation of DF 1’s media policy and regulatory interests vis-à-vis legislators, regulatory authorities and in industry associations

Drafting and negotiation of film license agreements
Representation of TaurusFilm’s interests in contentious disputes regarding TV broadcasting rights
Advice of various KirchGroup subsidiaries in the areas of merchandising and video distribution
Advice on the acquisition of an interest in a new subsidiary of KirchGroup

M&A, Corporate, Litigation

Intellectual Property, Trade Law, Corporate

Assistant for the German Law Department (Chair of Civil Law and Conflict of Laws)
Lectures and supervision of term papers and exams for the grand German Civil Law certificate

Elective internship at the German-Australian Chamber of Commerce in Sydney