Alexandra Ciarnau > DORDA Rechtsanwälte GmbH > Vienna, Austria > Lawyer Profile

DORDA Rechtsanwälte GmbH acts for clients across the full spectrum of industries in precedent-setting matters, including ECJ disputes concerning trade marks, copyrights and licensing rights. The team is well versed in matters at the forefront of technological developments while also handling ongoing portfolio management, including defending clients’ IP rights globally. ‘Quick and strategic thinker’ Axel Anderl leads the team, specialising in copyright and trade mark and outsourcing matters, with a particular focus on software. Andreas Seling‘s practice bridges trade mark law and unfair competition, with Alexandra Ciarnau focusing on IP developments in relation to AI and Blockchain. Ida Woltran is building up the firm’s patent capabilities while also handling copyright matters.

The team at DORDA Rechtsanwälte GmbH frequently represents clients before the Austrian data protection authority and the Federal Administrative Court in matters of data protection, advising on issues around cookies, data retention and GDPR disputes. Managing partner Axel Anderl jointly heads the team, advising on data aspects of IT and outsourcing projects in addition to GDPR compliance. Alongside him is the ‘very flexible, pragmatic and solution-oriented’ practice co-head Nino Tlapak, who handles IT security matters and assists clients in the event of data breaches, with further expertise in cloud agreements. Alexandra Ciarnau co-heads the firm’s digital industries group, adding experience in the fields of AI and digitalisation in addition to her focus on e-commerce and consumer protection.

DORDA Rechtsanwälte GmbH has a team of ‘absolute experts in their respective fields,’ who advise an impressive array of clients in the financial services, telecoms and automotive sectors, among others, on the gamut of TMT-related issues, including IT outsourcing and cloud computing projects. The firm’s Digital Industries group assists clients with developing TMT matters, including AI, Blockchain and cryptocurrency issues. Axel Anderl, whose expertise extends across the areas of IT, cloud computing, data protection and copyright issues, heads the IT/IP & Data Protection practice and co-heads the Digital Industries team alongside the ‘extremely diligent’ Alexandra Ciarnau, who manages the firm’s newly established Metaverse office. Nino Tlapak specialises in data protection and is frequently asked to act as an external data protection officer by clients.