Carsten Kociok

Technology, Media & Telecommunications

Data Privacy & Cybersecurity

Financial Services Litigation

Financial Regulatory & Compliance

Retail

IT & Business Process Outsourcing

IP Technology Licensing & Transactions

Banking & Financial Services

Digital Infrastructure, Data Center and Cloud Computing

Fintech

Carsten Kociok is a partner in the Technology, Financial Services and Data Privacy Practice in Berlin and Co-Head of Greenberg Traurig’s global FinTech Group. He advises national and international clients across all industries, including financial services, information technology, ecommerce, media, healthcare, telecoms, retail and real estate, on a wide variety of complex commercial and regulatory matters.

Carsten is a leading technology specialist, ranked in Band 1 for Fintech Legal in Germany (Chambers and Partners 2022 and 2023). He has in-depth and wide-range experience in the areas of privacy and cybersecurity, payments law, financial services, e-money products, blockchain technology and financial and banking regulations. Carsten regularly assists clients in licensing projects and audit proceedings with financial regulators and advises on the contractual and regulatory aspects of developing, implementing and operating financial technology products and transactions.

On the data privacy side, Carsten counsels clients on complex data-driven business models and regulatory matters, including on international data transfers, data privacy compliance, monetization of data, artificial intelligence, litigation, cybersecurity and data breach response.

Carsten regularly lectures and publishes on various FinTech and data privacy topics. Prior to joining the firm, Carsten worked at Olswang Germany for eight years and in the Capital Transaction Practice Group of an international law firm in New York.

Concentrations:

FinTech and financial services

Data privacy and cybersecurity

Technology transactions

GDPR compliance programs

Digital investment and crypto assets

Payment services and e-wallets

Consumer credit and “buy-now-pay-later” products

eCommerce and digitalization

Second Legal State Exam, Berlin/Germany, 2006

LL.M. in American Law, Boston University School of Law/USA, 2002

First Legal State Exam, Humboldt-University Berlin/Germany, 2001