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Dr Christian Schefold

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Work Department

Corporate / Compliance

Position

Dr. Christian Schefold, LL.M., is a Partner in the Berlin office of Dentons, a member of the Corporate practice and co-heading the German Compliance practice. He focuses on compliance, corporate and data protection law. Christian headed the compliance consultation department at Daimler AG where he was co-responsible for setting up a compliance network within the Daimler group worldwide. Prior to this task, he worked several years as senior counsel with Daimler Financial Services AG being responsible inter alia for IP, IT & DP law, international commercial law, financing, M&A and public private partnerships (namely for the legal set-up of the German motorway tolling system Toll Collect). He is constantly practicing data protection law since 1996.

Christian’s favorites are setting up compliance management systems (CMS), especially Data Protection CMS as well as Data Transfer Regimes for international corporations to fulfill GDPR requirements.

Career

  • Partner, Dentons, 2019 to date
  • Of Counsel, Dentons, 2015-2019
  • Of Counsel (Compliance & Corporate Law), Mayer Brown LLP, Dusseldorf, 2009-2014
  • Head of Compliance Consultation, DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, 2005-2008
  • Senior Counsel, DaimlerChrysler Services AG, Berlin (“debis”), 1997-2005
  • Counsel Legal Affairs, debis Systemhaus GmbH, Munich, 1996-1997

Memberships

  • TRACE – partner lawyer for Germany
  • DICO – Working Groups on Compliance Risk Analysis and Criminal Law
  • Member, Editor’s Advisory Committee, ZRFC (Journal for Risk, Fraud & Compliance)

Education

University of Mainz, 1997, Dr. iur.

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 1995

Legal clerkship, 1992-1995, Aachen

University of Edinburgh, 1992, LL.M.

University of Mainz, 1985-1991, Legal studies

 

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Germany > Compliance > Compliance

Dentons ‘ compliance team impresses with cross-border capacities and frequent cross-practice cooperation. The team advises companies across various sectors, including the fashion and defence industries. A core focus is on compliance management systems, where the practice is experienced in current ESG and supply chain due diligence matters, as well as traditional topics such as data protection, money laundering and tax law. The team is jointly led by Christian Schefold (data protection, money laundering and fraud prevention) and Judith Aron (co-head of the European compliance practice) and also includes Peter Braun (implementation of CMS for international financial institutions), Gabriele Haas (corporate governance) and the antitrust experts Josef Hainz and René Grafunder. Jobst von Steinsdorff (corporate finance and regulatory) joined OIKON in November 2022.

Germany > Information technology > Data protection

Dentons offers competencies at the intersection between compliance, IT, IP, corporate and employment law, which are frequently called upon by clients in international data transfers, GDPR compliance and the establishment of data protection compliance systems; practice head Christian Schefold is a key contact for the latter area. This advisory offering is complemented by expertise in crisis management issues such as data breaches. In December 2022, compliance specialist Ann-Kristin Cahnbley left the practice.

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