Gerhard Deiters

Attorney-at-law | Partner

Mr. Gerhard Deiters specializes in the legal fields of IT, data protection, data privacy and international contract law as well as the sectors, research, security and defense, there in particular in the areas of open data, intellectual property when using open source components, unmanned systems and battle management systems. His clients include international corporations, medium-sized companies and German and European authorities and research institutes. In addition to providing legal advice, he is also a seminar leader and speaker in the areas of IT and data protection law, as well as giving lectures and training courses on legal issues relating to future technologies. A particular hobbyhorse is the implementation of customer-specific workshops on contract design in agile approaches. Since 2022, he has been a lecturer at the University of Bochum in the field of geoinformatics.

Mr. Deiters studied law at the University of Cologne. After his first state examination, he first worked at the Institute for Private International Law and Comparative Law and later as a re-search assistant at a commercial law firm in Cologne, where he also completed his legal clerkship. He completed his administrative station at the German Embassy in Jakarta and his elec-tive station at eBay GmbH in Dreilinden near Berlin. Before joining BHO Legal, he worked for several years as a lawyer at the national law firm Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek in IT, telecommunications and data protection law.

Education:

  • 2010
    Admission to the bar
  • 2010
    Degree in German Law (2nd State Exam), Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • 2005
    Degree in German Law (1st State Exam) University of Cologne, Germany

Work experience:

  • Present
    Attorney-at-law and Partner of BHO Legal
  • 2010 - 2014
    Associate, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Cologne (Germany)
  • 2010
    Research Fellow at BHO Legal
  • 2008 - 2010
    Legal Clerkship
  • 2008 - 2009
    Research Fellow in the IT and Communications Department, Oppenhoff and Partners Lawyers, Cologne (Germany)

Languages:

  • German
  • English
  • Spanish

Publications (excerpt):

  • Agile contracts for space projects, in: Routledge Handbook of Commercial Space Law, 31 July 2023
  • ECJ on Art. 9 (1) GDPR: Is “all” data now categorized into special categories of personal data?, in: Data Protection Advisor 09/2022, p. 247 et seq.
  • Control of 3G evidence at the workplace – sample documentation (original: Kontrolle von 3G-Nachweisen am Arbeitsplatz – Muster zur Dokumentation), in: ZD-Aktuell 20/2021 dated 7.12.2021.
  • Notification Obligations under Article 33 (1) Sentence 1 of the GDPR: Demarcation Issues after the “Hafnium Hack,” in: Datenschutz-Berater 06/2021, p. 173 et seq.
  • Chapter 3 “Agreement categorisation in the context of IT procurements” (original: “Die Vertragstypisierung im Kontext der EVB-IT”), together with Dr. Roderic Ortner, in: Kruth/Ortner/Deiters (editors): EVB-IT Praxisleitfaden: Hinweise zur Vertragsgestaltung, Bundesanzeiger, 2015.
  • Chapter 4 “Usage Rights in the context of IT procurements” (original: “Nutzungsrechte im Kontext der EVB-IT”), together with Dr. Roderic Ortner), in: Kruth/Ortner/Deiters (editors): EVB-IT Praxisleitfaden: Hinweise zur Vertragsgestaltung, Bundesanzeiger, 2014.
  • Chapter 5 “Data Protection” (original: “Datenschutz”), together with Dr. Roderic Ortner, in: Kruth/Ortner/Deiters (editors): EVB-IT Praxisleitfaden: Hinweise zur Vertragsgestaltung, Bundesanzeiger, 2014.
  • Chapter 6 “Contractual handling of special cases” (original: “Vertragsrechtliche Behandlung von Sonderfällen); together with Dr. Roderic Ortner, in: Kruth/Ortner/Deiters (editors): EVB-IT Praxisleitfaden: Hinweise zur Vertragsgestaltung, Bundesanzeiger, 2014.
  • Germany Chapter – Telecoms, Media and Internet Laws and Regulations 2014, in: The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Telecoms, Media and Internet Laws and Regulations 2014, published by the Global Legal Group Ltd, London (co-author: Dr. Dirk Stolz).
  • Introduction of a discovery procedure on German data protection law (original: Einführung eines Discovery-Verfahrens über deutsches Datenschutzrecht), in: Zeitschrift für Datenschutz (ZD), ZD 2013, p. 313 et seqq. (co-authors: Dr. Philip Kempermann and Robert U. Fischer).
  • Germany Chapter – Telecommunications Laws and Regulations 2013, in: The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Telecommunications Laws and Regulations 2013, published by the Global Legal Group Ltd www.iclg.co.uk, London (co-author: Dr. Dirk Stolz).
  • Germany Chapter – Telecommunications Laws and Regulations 2012 in: The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Telecommunications Laws and Regulations 2012, published by the Global Legal Group Ltd www.iclg.co.uk, London (co-author: Dr. Dirk Stolz).
  • Works agreement on communication – employee interests and compliance in the private use of communication media in companies (original: Betriebsvereinbarung Kommunikation – Beschäftigteninteressen und Compliance bei privater Nutzung von Kommunikationsmitteln in Unternehmen), in: Zeitschrift für Datenschutz (ZD), 2012, p. 109 et seqq.
  • Social Media: Data Protection And Company Details – A Never Ending Story?, in: GALA Gazette December 2011, published under www.gala-marketlaw.com.
  • Data protection in the expert office (3) – practical examples (original: Datenschutz im Sachverständigenbüro (3) – Praxisbeispiele), in: immobilien & bewerten 4/2011.
  • Facebook “Like“ Button: Compliant with German Data Privacy Laws and law against unfair competition?, in: GALA Gazette May 2011, published under www.gala-marketlaw.com
  • Data protection in the expert office (2) – Declaration of consent under data protection law (original: Datenschutz im Sachverständigenbüro (2) – Die datenschutzrechtliche Einwilligungserklärung),, in: immobilien & bewerten 2/2011.
  • The end of the German state monopoly concerning gaming and betting has come. But what comes next?, in: GALA Gazette April 2011, published under www.gala-marketlaw.com.
  • Data protection in the expert office (1) – Legal principles (original: Datenschutz im Sachverständigenbüro (1) – Rechtliche Grundlagen), in: immobilien & bewerten 1/2011.
  • Writing and formatting exams, term papers, seminar papers and dissertations (original: Klausuren, Hausarbeiten, Seminararbeiten, Dissertationen richtig schreiben und gestalten) (co-author: Dr. Holger Michael Kleinhenz), Bund Verlag 2005.