Dr. Alin Seegel

Since June 2020: CSW Attorneys at Law

February 2016 until May 2020: SSW Attorneys at Law, Tax Consultants, Financial Auditors

October 2013 to January 2016: Reed Smith LLP, Munich, IT, Technology with secondment at Knorr Bremse, Munich

February 2011 to September 2013: Noerr LLP, Munich, IT Department

March 2010 until February 2011: Dissertation

March 2009 to February 2010: Research assistant at the Chair of Multimedia, Internet, Telecommunications Law, Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler, University of Göttingen

April 2006 until Februar 2009: Westhelle law firm, Erfurt, insolvency law, IT law

September 2005 to March 2006: Wallner Weiß law firm, insolvency law

Digitalization and IT law

IT contract law

Public procurement of IT services

Outsourcing in the banking sector, cloud computing, SaaS

Licensing law

E-commerce and Internet law

License agreement review and consulting of an outsourcing service provider for banks after audit with license demands of a US software manufacturer with successful defense of the license demands

Preparation of various General Terms and Conditions in the areas of “managed services”, “cloud computing”, “SaaS”, classic software purchase”, classic software rental”, classic IT service and maintenance.

Advice on the public procurement of IT services (preparation of tender documents for the procurement of IT services, exclusion of bidders, answering bidder questions, drafting contracts: EVB-IT)

Preparation and negotiation of IT project and IT framework agreements from the client’s point of view

Preparation and negotiation of specification and blueprint contracts from the client’s point of view

SAP consulting for indirect use

SAP implementation internationally (project consulting, contract design, contract negotiation) from client’s point of view

Contractual advice to several IT service providers, in particular drafting and negotiating IT contracts from the contractor’s point of view .

Advising an outsourcing service provider for banks on the procurement of software, contract negotiation

Advising a Bavarian municipal utility and an outsourcing service provider for banks, each in connection with a failed IT project

Implementation GDPR

Preparation of model contract processing and model joint control agreements

Expert opinion for an outsourcing service provider for banks to clarify liability issues after software failure

Financial regulatory consulting Outsourcing service provider for banks

Consulting for procurement of open source software

Advice on the conclusion of a cooperation agreement in the field of artificial intelligence

German

English

Book contributions

• Seegel, Kapitel 6 Insolvency resistance of rights of use, in: Remmertz/Kast (Hrsg.) Rechtshandbuch Digital Escrow, C. H. Beck Verlag, 2022
  
• Seegel, Commentary on §§ 103 ff of the German Insolvency Code (InsO), in: Schuster/Grützmacher (eds.), Commentary on IT Law, Otto Schmidt Publishing House, 2020
• Seegel, § 22 “Source Code Escrow from the User’s Perspective” in: Intveen/Gennen/Karger, Handbuch Softwarerecht, German Lawyers’ Publishing House, 2018

Articles in Specialist Journals/Blogs

• Seegel, Regulation of basic models (LLM): Brussels puts the brakes on – German data protection authorities step on the gas! CR Blog 1.12.2023
• Seegel, Cloud switching under the Data Act: the curtain falls, the questions remain! CR Blog 15.11.20 23
• Seegel/Conrad, “Pay with data” business model – is everything clear now? CR Blog 10.11.2023
• Seegel, The obligation to update pursuant to § 327f BGB – curse or blessing in the insolvency of the software licensor?, IT-Rechtsberater 05/2023
• Seegel, Interview on “Insolvency jeopardizes license” in issue 09/2021, from page 46 of the
  Magazine of the German-speaking SAP user group “blaupause”
• Seegel, Enterprise Software in Insolvency – Corona Update: Case Law Overview and Impact of Federal Court of Justice (BGH) v. 16.5.2019 – IX ZR 44/18 on License Agreements, IT Legal Advisor (ITRB) 11/2020, p. 267 et seq.
• Seegel, Corona Update: Can I continue to use my business software in insolvency?, blog CR-online.de on 27.07.2020
• Seegel, Case law article, Right of Withdrawal also Applies to Online Orders of Medicines, IT Legal Advisor (ITRB) 03/2019, pp. 58-59
• Seegel, Data Backup as a Contractual Ancillary Obligation under the Hosting Agreement, IT Legal Advisor 10/2018, p. 229 – 230
• Seegel/Remmertz/Kast, Insolvency Resistance of (Software) Licenses – Proposal for a Reform of the German Insolvency Code (InsO), ZInsO 2015, 1993 et seq.
• Seegel, The IT Security Act is in force: Who is affected, What to do? – Operators of “critical infrastructures” await clarification of the legal situation, in: German Lawyers Reviews (Anwaltspiegel) 09/2015
• Seegel, Current Developments on the Question of Insolvency Resistance of License and Sublicense Agreements – a Never-ending Story of Failed Reform Efforts and Contradictory Court Decisions, Dissertation, University Publishing House Göttingen, 2014.
• Seegel,New Act to Combat Late Payments in Business Transactions – General Terms and Conditions and Individual Contractual Agreements must be adapted”, in: German Lawyers Review (Anwaltspiegel) 09/2014
• Seegel, Insolvency Resistance of Licenses and License Agreements – Update: the Need for Legislative Action Still Persists Unbroken Despite German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) “Reifen Progressiv” and “M2Trade”, in: Computer law Journal (CR) 2013, S. 205 ff.

• Beck Summer Course IT Law since 2016
• Beck course IT law since 2017
• UsedSoft III – Another Step towards Insolvency-proof Software License Agreements?! – at the 11th OSE Symposium – Munich, 29.01.2016
• University lecturer at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University in the Department of Applied Computer Science/Subject Software and Internet for IT Law from 2009 to 2018