Lothar Determann

Practice Areas

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.

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

Publications

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

Work Highlights

• Helps companies create and update global privacy law compliance programs and documentation, including compliance with GDPR, CCPA and other laws, based on approaches described in his California and United States and international compliance guides which have been published in more than 10 languages around the world.

• Counsels clients on cybersecurity preparedness and incidents since 2003, including breach notifications considering laws in more than 180 jurisdictions worldwide.

• Assists medical device and other life science businesses with commercial matters and data privacy law compliance, including new product counseling, regulatory compliance, strategic advice on global expansion and healthy approaches to data protection.

Languages Spoken

English, German

Expert in these Jurisdictions

USA

Education