Ekaterina Filikhina

Ekaterina Filikhina LLM

Senior Associate
Munich
About

Ekaterina Filikhina advises national and international clients on technology related issues, with a particular focus on IT contract law, IT outsourcing law, tech transactions, artificial intelligence, software licensing and cloud computing.  

Her main area of practice includes drafting and negotiating contracts on a national and international level and advising on complex IT projects. Furthermore, she advises on cloud computing, software and data licensing and digital transformation models.

Areas of FocusIntellectual PropertyTechnology
Professional QualificationsRechtsanwältin admitted with the Rechtsanwaltskammer Munich

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising and negotiating an IT outsourding agreement for an international IT provider.
  • Advising an cosmectics e-commerce company on a robot as a service project.
  • Advising an IT outsourcing provider in the financial sector on its IT transformation.
  • Negotiating a license agreement for an international video and audio editing software company.
  • Advising on various tech transactions for national and international clients.
  • Drafting a cloud outsourcing agreement for an internationally acting German based company.
  • Advising an non-profit organization on its data licensing concept.
  • Advising an internationally acting pharmaceutical company on a complex multi-party IT outsourcing project.
  • Advising a German chemical company on the implementation of an ERP-SAP-project.

    *The above list includes matters completed whilst Ekaterina was at her previous employer.

     

Languages
  • German
  • English
  • Russian
Education
  • Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg, Second State Examination, 2019
  • University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, First State Examination, 2017

Publications

  • Liability of AI-Operators, published in DSRITB in 2021.
  • Copyright Protection of AI Systems, published in DSRITB in 2023 and awared with the DSRI Best Paper Award.
  • Training generative AI models with copyrighted content, published in DSRITB in 2025.

Prior Experience

Prior to joining DLA Piper 2021, Ekaterina Filikhina worked as an Associate for a leading German law firm in the area of information technology.

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