Dr iur Anna Mertinz > KWR Karasek Wietrzyk Rechtsanwälte GmbH > Vienna, Austria > Lawyer Profile
KWR Karasek Wietrzyk Rechtsanwälte GmbH Offices
FLEISCHMARKT 1
1010
VIENNA
Austria
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Dr iur Anna Mertinz
Work Department
Employment Law, Data Protection Law, Contract Law, Corporate and Company Law, Compliance, European Law
Position
Partner
Career
Anna Mertinz has been an attorney since 2013 and became a managing partner at KWR in 2017. She gained valuable professional experience during her studies (e.g., at Bank Austria Creditanstalt Vienna, 2001) and worked as a legal assistant at two renowned Viennese law firms during her studies (2001 to 2005). After completing her year at court as a candidate for employment, Anna Mertinz joined KWR in January 2007 as an associate. She completed her doctorate while working and training at KWR. After successfully passing the bar exam, Anna Mertinz joined the firm as an in-house lawyer and worked as Legal Counsel Austria & Slovenia at Coca-Cola HBC Austria GmbH from 2010-2013.
Languages
German, English, French, Spanish
Education
Universität Wien (Mag. iur. 2005, Dr. iur. 2008), Université de Franche-Comté Besancon (Erasmusstipendium 2005), Bar exam (2009), Postgraduate Diploma EU Competition Law (King’s College London)
Lawyer Rankings
Austria > Employment
(Leading partners)Equipped to advise on the full range of employment matters, KWR Karasek Wietrzyk Rechtsanwälte GmbH is recognised for established experience in employment-related data protection topics, contentious termination proceedings, and transfers of undertakings. Recently, the team developed new focus areas including works councils, remote work, and whistleblowing. Exemplifying the team’s strength in employee data transfers and data usage and protection, practice head Anna Mertinz also chairs the firm’s data protection group. Stefan Burischek joined the department in September 2024 from Schima Mayer Starlinger Rechtsanwälte GmbH after the departure of Martin Lanner.
Austria > Data privacy and data protection
With a practice spanning day-to-day compliance advice, including the holding of customer and employee data, to issues relating to the development of cookie strategies, KWR Karasek Wietrzyk Rechtsanwälte GmbH also assists with the data protection aspects of major IT projects. Where matters become contentious, practice co-head Anna Mertinz appears before the courts on matters tied to the handling of employee data, while also handling GDPR compliance for clients. Alongside her, Beatrice Blümel leverages her previous experience at the Data Protection Authority to advise on both GDPR compliance and litigation.