Vita short

• Studied law at the Humboldt University of Berlin completed with the first state examination (Erstes Staatsexamen)
• Research Assistant at a major international law firm
• Junior Legal Counsel at a scale-up in Berlin for IP & IT law topics
• Certified as a data protection officer at the LUTOP Datenschutz Akademie GmbH
• Legal traineeship (Referendariat) in Berlin, Germany including stations at major international law firms, completed with the second state examination, the German Bar Exam (Zweites Staatsexamen).
• Admission to the bar since 2021
• Associate IT law & copyright law at an international law firm
• Since 2019 Founder and Managing Director of VP Data Protection GmbH, which is active in the field of external data protection officers, money laundering officers and whistleblower protection
• Since 2022 Legal Counsel Data Privacy & IP at a German online bank

Focus

• Valerie advises German and international companies on their digitalisation projects. She specialises in data protection law, copyright law, e-commerce and IT law. In addition to many years of in-house experience in various start-ups and scale-ups, Valerie has built up her own data protection consultancy. She also has extensive experience in international law firms and with the Berlin data protection authority. She advises in German, English and Portuguese.

Publications (excerpt)

2024

Meme-Marketing in social media, Berliner Anwaltsblatt, Heft 10/2024, (publication in German language; co-authorship).

2024

in, Auer-Reinsdorff/Conrad (ed.), C.H. Beck Verlag, Handbuch IT- und Datenschutzrecht, 4th edition, in the process of publication (publication in German language; co-authorship).

2022

Developers are not a locksmith! – On the liability of FOSS projects towards users against the background of the judgement “Tulip-Trading vs. bitcoin”, DSRI conference proceedings 13th year, 2022, German Foundation for Law and Informatics (publication in German language; co-authorship).

2015

Criminal claim of the state as a consequence of the state’s monopoly on the use of force, Series on International Uniform Law and Comparative Law, Volume 52, 2015 (publication in German language; co-authorship).

Talks (excerpt)

2024

International Business Law Day, DAV IWR, Berlin 2024, – Whistleblowing – Speak-up culture – Field report.

2024

Kölner Anwaltsrechtstage, Kölner Anwaltverein e.V., Köln 2024, Data protection challanges when using AI