Dr Carl Renner

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Co-Regional Head Law& (Mainland Europe)
Munich
About

Carl Renner is Co-Regional Head (Mainland Europe) of Law&, the innovative NewLaw unit of DLA Piper. He has many years of experience as a lawyer and specialises in the development and delivery of innovative and disruptive legal services.

After working as an IT and data protection lawyer at DLA Piper from 2010 to the end of 2014, his practice focus shifted to NewLaw services and managed legal services, in particular the efficient support of high-volume, repetitive and standardisable tasks in combination with state-of-the-art technologies/AI, efficient processes and legal project management.

Before rejoining DLA Piper, he gained experience as a lawyer in various secondments of several months in international companies, built up his own law firm specialising in NewLaw and an alternative legal service provider in Germany and was a partner of an international law firm, where he built up and was responsible for the practice group specialising in innovative legal services in Germany for several years as co-head.

Areas of FocusCorporateTechnologyConsumer Goods, Food and RetailEnergy and Natural ResourcesFinancial ServicesHealthcareIndustrialsInfrastructure, Construction and TransportInsuranceLife SciencesMedia, Sport and EntertainmentData, Privacy and CybersecurityEmploymentFinanceFranchiseIntellectual PropertyInvestment Management and FundsLitigation, Arbitration and InvestigationsMergers and AcquisitionsPrivate EquityReal EstateRegulatory and Government AffairsRestructuringTaxTechnology and Commercial Transactions
Professional QualificationsRechtsanwalt admitted with the Rechtsanwaltskammer Munich

EXPERIENCE

  • Establishment and lead of a legal desk for a company in the insurance industry to provide ongoing support in the review and revision of standard contracts (e.g. NDAs).
  • Ongoing support in peak seasons for a leading software manufacturer in the processing and negotiation of standardised licence agreements.
  • Management of a hybrid data protection project involving NewLaw resources, corporate and data protection experts and legal tech.
  • Developing a legal tech-based standardised review system for Code of Conducts for an international industrial company.
Languages
  • German
  • English
Education
  • University of Regensburg, doctorate, 2013
  • University of Regensburg, First and second state exams, 2007 and 2010

Publications and media

  • Innovation im Rechtsmarkt: Digitalunternehmen als Vorbild für Anwaltskanzleien, in: Legal Tribune Online, 13.12.2023
  • On the Function of Contracts in Modern Society - an Instrument of Freedom of Bondage?, in: Liquid Legal - Humanization and the Law (Jacob/Schindler/ Strathausen/Waltl, 2022)

Prior Experience

  • 2020-2024, Partner of an international law firm, Co-Head of the German NewLaw practice group
  • 2018-2020, Legal Director Germany of an Alternative Legal Service Provider
  • 2016-2018 Founder and Partner of a Law Firm specialised in NewLaw
  • 2014-2015 Lawyer at an IT-Law boutique
  • 2010-2014 Senior Associate, DLA Piper

Additional Qualifications

  • Commercial Mediator (CVM)
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Phone

+49 89 2323 72 317
(Work, Munich)
+49 176 235 981 93
(Mobile, Munich)
+49 89 23 23 72 100
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