Christopher
Götz

Christopher is a partner in our Munich office who specialises on AI, IT, data and data protection law. He advises with a focus on complex IT - outsourcing and cloud computing projects, on cross - border data transfers between (group) companies, on IT security matters, on projects relating to (big) data and AI, as well as on software licensing agreements (including Open Source Software). Christopher has carried out numerous GDPR compliance projects since 2016.

Christopher’s legal expertise plays a vital role for any technology or data driven IT project and EU AI Act compliance projects since its entry into force in 2024 as well as EU Data Act compliance projects. His clients belong to various sectors, particularly TMT, FI and AM, including, amongst others, worldwide operating financial investors, asset managers and IT service providers.

He has absolved various client secondments in the past, namely six months at Vodafone (Düsseldorf) and six months at Accenture (Frankfurt/Kronberg). He studied law at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich and the Benjamin N Cardozo School of Law, New York City (LL.M. IP). Following his admission as a lawyer in Germany in 2006 and New York in 2007, he worked in international law firms in Munich and Cologne.

Christopher has been listed as a “top IT-lawyer” in various legal rankings, such as IFRL 1000 (2017; quotes clients who say Christopher is “very competent, easily accessible at all times and solution focussed”), the leading German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche (2018), as well as in the “Best Lawyers” ranking of Handelsblatt (2023; 2024; 2025).

Christopher speaks regularly about the EU AI Act, EU Data Act, international data transfers and other IT related topics, e.g. at the renowned “Beck-Akademie”.

Since 2017 Christopher organizes the annual Digital Day in Munich, where the “stakeholders of digitalization” provide insight into their activities and where relevant legal issues in the context of digitalization are discussed.