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Dentons
MARKGRAFENSTRASSE 33
10117 BERLIN
Germany
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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

 

Lawyer Rankings

Deutschland > Compliance > Compliance

Dentons verfolgt in der Compliance-Beratung einen grenzüberschreitenden Full Service-Ansatz und berät neben den traditionellen Themen Datenschutz, Geldwäscheprävention, Compliance Management Systeme, Außenwirtschaftsrecht, Kapitalmarkt- und Wertpapier-Compliance sowie Compliance-Fragen an der steuer-, kartell-, gesellschafts- und arbeitsrechtlichen Schnittstelle zudem zu den aktuellen Themen KI, Data Governance, Lieferketten und ESG. Dieser Themenkatalog wird oftmals von Mandanten aus den Branchen Gesundheit, Energie, Versicherungen, Automotive sowie aus dem Bank- und Finanzwesen abgefragt. Das Team steht unter der gemeinsamen Leitung von der in der Implementierung von Compliance Management Systemen erfahrenen Judith Aron (Co-Chair der globalen Compliance- und Investigations-Praxis) und Christian Schefold (Datenschutz, Geldwäscheprävention). Die in Energiefragen erfahrene Gabriele Haas wechselte im Sommer 2024 zu Noerr.

Deutschland > Informationstechnologie > Datenrecht

Dentons Europe (Germany) GmbH & Co. KG deckt sowohl die Beratung zu unternehmensinternen Datenschutzstrukturen, also auch die Unterstützung von Mandanten bei Datenschutzverletzungen sowie die Vertretung in streitigen Auseinandersetzungen ab und hat im Berichtszeitraum auch zu verschiedenen datenrechtlichen Einzelfragen, etwa im Zusammenhang mit dem Zugriff auf personenbezogene Daten oder dem Umgang mit Patientendaten, beraten. Praxisgruppenleiter Christian Schefold ist ein Experte für Compliance und Corporate Governance, während der Zugang von Philipp Byers im Mai 2023 von Watson Farley & Williams LLP eine weitere Verstärkung des Angebots im Schwerpunktbereich Beschäftigtendatenschutz darstellt.

Germany > Compliance > Compliance

Dentons‘s full-service approach also covers cross-border matters and the team advises on traditional compliance topics, such as data protection, money laundering, compliance management systems, foreign trade law, capital markets and securities compliance as well as compliance issues at the interface with tax, antitrust, corporate and employment law. Current growth areas include AI, data governance, supply chains and ESG matters. These competencies are regularly called upon by clients from the healthcare, energy, insurance, automotive, banking and financial sectors. The team is jointly led by Judith Aron (co-chair of the global compliance and investigations practice), who is experienced in the implementation of compliance management systems, and Christian Schefold (data protection, money laundering prevention). Gabriele Haas, who is experienced in energy issues, moved to Noerr in mid 2024.

Germany > Information technology > Data protection

Dentons Europe (Germany) GmbH & Co. KG is experienced in data protection governance structures, data breach response as well as clients’ representation in disputes; the most recent instruction also include the support in various individual data protection issues such as access to personal data or the use of patient data. Practice head Christian Schefold focuses on compliance and corporate governance, while the arrival of Philipp Byers in May 2023 from Watson Farley & Williams LLP strengthened the team’s existing competencies in employee data protection.