Christoph Callewaert
Attorney-at-law
Senior Associate
Expertise
- Data protection and cybersecurity by design
- Data law and commercial use of data
- Regulated industries with a focus on the financial sector and mobility
- French desk
Career
- Studied law at Saarland University in Saarbruecken
- Studied French law at the French-German Law Center in Saarbruecken and at University of Lorraine in Metz
- Licence en droit degree
- Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Saarbruecken with stations inter alia at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer, at a leading commercial law firm in Luxembourg and at the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission in Brussels
- Lecturer at Saarland University and at the Centre juridique franco-allemand
Current projects (extract)
- Advising national and international companies as well as public bodies on data protection and cyber security compliance
- Advising French-speaking companies on German law
- Contract drafting and contract management in the software and IT sector
- Legal support for companies in the introduction of new products in the digital environment
Publications (selection)
- Firewalls und Familiengeschäfte: Das neue Cybersicherheitsrecht für den Mittelstand (trans. "Firewalls and family businesses: The new cybersecurity law for small and medium-sized enterprises") (with Stefan Hessel and Moritz Schneider), RFamU – Recht der Familienunternehmen, 05/2024, starting p. 200
- Das Datenschutzrecht in der Finanzwirtschaft 2023 (trans. "Data protection law in the financial sector 2023") (with Stefan Hessel), BKR – Zeitschrift für Bank und Kapitalmarktrecht, 3/2024, starting p. 88
- Data Privacy Framework: Das zählt beim Datenexport (trans. "Data Privacy Framework: What matters when exporting data") (with Christina Kiefer), iX Magazin, issue 10/2023, 19.10.2023, starting p. 100 and heise online, 08.09.2023
- Gefahr erkannt, Recht gebannt – Europas Kampf gegen Cyberbedrohungen (trans. "Danger recognised, danger averted – Europe's fight against cyber threats") (with Stefan Hessel), IM+io – Fachmagazin, issue 3/September 2023, starting p. 50
- Souveräne Clouds: Definition der Datenschützer (trans. "Sovereign clouds: Definition of data protection officers") (with Stefan Hessel), iX Magazin, issue 7/2023, starting p. 80