Dr Johannes Baur | Fieldfisher
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Professional background

My main areas of practice
I routinely guide clients through data protection and data-usage law – from international data-transfer strategies to complex data-sharing agreements and data monetisation models, cybersecurity compliance and incident response and AI regulation and governance. I'm helping organisations align products and internal processes with the AI Act and related standards, platform regulation, including risk assessments, transparency obligations and content-moderation frameworks.

Over the past several years I have acted for both national and international clients in data-driven industries, with a particular focus on SaaS, healthcare, financial-services and advertising technology sector.

I advise our clients in German and English.

Publications
My doctoral thesis on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (2021) deals with legal implications of distributed ledger technology, such as blockchain.

My background
I studied at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and at the Università Roma Tre in Rome and worked as a Research Assistant in the civil-law department at the Institute for Information, Telecommunications and Media Law in Münster.

During my legal clerkship I broadened my practical perspective at a leading international business law firm and at a major search-engine provider.

Authored pieces

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Corporate
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Fieldfisher advises leading Scandinavian camping organisation First Camp on the acquisition of Via Claudia Camping Company Limited and its entry into the German market

07.07.2025
European law firm Fieldfisher has provided comprehensive legal advice to Scandinavia's leading camping organisation, First Camp, on the acquisition of Via Claudia Camping Company Limited and the campsite it operates in Lechbruck am See in Bavaria. The transaction marks First Camp's entry into the German market and continues its expansion in Europe.
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Data and Privacy
Insight

What rights do data subjects have under the AI Act and are they different from the GDPR?

29.10.2024
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Corporate
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Fieldfisher advises listed Swedish Thunderful Group AB on the sale of Headup Games to former founder

11.04.2024
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Insight

Artificial Intelligence: regulation and data protection

27.11.2023
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Insight

On the need for internal guidelines for the use of Generative AI

04.05.2023
The use of Generative AI (GenAI) software tools has grown in popularity among many companies. The focus is often on Open AI's large language model, Chat-GPT. But GenAI does not stop at text generation. It also promises greater efficiency, improved output and better use of resources to produce other content. However, companies that want to take advantage of this should be aware of a few rules of the game.  
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