Clifford Chance

TechDigital, M&A corporate, Intellectual property

Gunnar Sachs specialises in intellectual property law, with long-standing experience in the healthcare, chemicals and consumer goods sectors.

Beyond regulatory advice, he works on strategic M&A and private equity transactions, corporate reorganisations, complex litigation and commercial projects as well compliance audits. Above all, he has particular expertise in digital topics as well as IT-based business models and advises clients across all sectors on digital transformation and data protection.

Gunnar is an active member of the firm's worldwide industry groups Healthcare, Life Sciences & Chemicals, Consumer Goods & Retail, Telecommunications, Media & Technology as well as the global Tech and Data Protection focus groups.

Between 2012 and 2015, Gunnar consecutively stood in, as external advisor, for the heads of the German legal departments of QVC, an affiliate of Liberty Interactive Group, as well as of Genzyme, an affiliate of Sanofi Group.

During his further legal education, Gunnar has also worked, inter alia, for the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, for the French Ministry of Economics, Finance and Industry in Paris, for the French Ministry of Defense in Paris, for the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Paris, for the German Institution for Arbitration in Berlin/Bonn as well as for the State Parliament North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf.

Admitted as a Rechtsanwalt in Germany 2006

Joined Clifford Chance 2006

Partner since 2017

German, English, French, Spanish and Russian

Universities of Münster, Cologne (Dr. jur.) and Paris (Maîtrise en droit) 1996

Student and doctorate scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation 1997 - 2003

Exam in legal French (Münster) 1998

Maître en droit international et européen (Paris) 2000

First State Examination 2002

Second State Examination 2005

Dr. jur. (Cologne) 2008