Christine Seiz > Dentons > Munich, Germany > Lawyer Profile

Dentons
JUNGFERNTURMSTRASSE 2
80333 MÜNCHEN
Germany

Work Department

Corporate

Position

Christine Seiz is a lawyer at Dentons’ Munich office. She focuses on intellectual property and corporate. She provides legal advice in particular regarding commercial contracts such as distribution agreements, supply agreements, license agreements, (software) development agreements, service agreements (e.g. SaaS agreements). Besides, she gives advice regarding franchising, M&A transactions, IP related transactions as well as competition law and regulatory aspects. Christine Seiz also sets a special emphasis on the protection of intellectual property, especially of trade secrets. Her clients come in particular from the information technology (IT), consumer goods, life sciences and automotive industries.

Career

  • Counsel, Dentons, 2022 to date
  • Senior associate, Dentons, 2016-2022
  • Legal Counsel, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., 2014-2015
  • Associate, Dentons, 2013

Memberships

Member, German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR e.V.)

Education

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 2011

Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, 2012, LL.M., Medical Law

Legal clerkship, 2009-2011, Frankfurt am Main

University of Frankfurt am Main, 2009, Legal studies

Lawyer Rankings

Germany > Trade and distribution > Trade, distribution and logistics

Dentons‘s commercial and distribution law team draws on the expertise in IT and contract law and advises on matters pertaining to general terms and conditions, data protection as well as supply chain due diligence. Practice head Christiane Zedelius covers franchise law and is regularly instructed on the structuring of franchise systems. Zedelius is also well versed in project work pertaining to selective and online distributiom systems. Counsel Christine Seiz complements this with IP law advice on commercial and supply contracts.