Lothar Determann

Lothar Determann has been helping companies in Silicon Valley and around the world take products, business models, intellectual property and contracts global at Baker McKenzie for more than 20 years. He advises on data privacy law compliance, cybersecurity, information technology commercialization, interactive entertainment, media, copyrights, open source licensing, electronic commerce, technology transactions, sourcing and international distribution at Baker McKenzie in San Francisco and Palo Alto. He is a member of the Firm's International/Commercial Practice Group and the TMT and Healthcare Industry Groups.

Practice Focus

Lothar's practice is focused on data privacy law compliance, information technology, copyrights, product regulations and international commercial law.

More than 150 articles and treatise contributions as well as five books, including:

Determann’s Field Guide to Data Privacy Law (5th Edition, 2022, also available in Arabic, Chinese, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish)

California Privacy Law: Practical Guide and Commentary on U.S. Federal and California Law (4th Ed. 2020)

Healthy Data Protection

Electronic Form over Substance

No One Owns Data

Other publications:

"Open Cars," Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Volume 32 (2017)

"Software Copyright’s Oracle from the Cloud," Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Volume 30 Issue 1 (2015), September 2015

"What Happens in the Cloud: Software as a Service and Copyrights," Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Volume 29 Issue 2 (2015), January 2014

"On War and Peace in Cyberspace," Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Volume 41 (2014), May 2014