Competencies
Sectors
Practice Areas
- High-Tech and Cyber Security
- Information Technology
- Data Protection
- Licensing and other Commercial Transactions,
- Corporate and Venture Capital including Equity and Debt Financing Transactions
- StartUp-Advisory
- Trademarks
- Commercial Contracts Law
- Press & Media
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Education and Professional Experience
- Lawyer at GSK Stockmann since 2017
- Licensed specialist for Intellectual Property
- Foreign Lawyer Germany (Israel Bar Association)
- Employment and Partner at various major law firms in the area of IP / IT mainly for companies from the technology and internet sector
- Admitted to practise law in Germany (2006)
- Doctorate at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Dr. jur.)
- University of Augsburg
Languages
- English, French, German, Hebrew
Memberships
- Member of German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)
Awards
- Recommended lawyer in the field of “Data Protection”, “Unfair Competition” and “Venture Capital” (The Legal 500 2023-2024)
- Recommended lawyer in the field of “Corporate Law”, “Private-Equity-Transactions (Mid-Cap)” and “Venture Capital” (Juve Handbuch 2021-2024)
- Ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers” in the area of “Data Security and Privacy Law, IT Law and Intellectual Property Law” (Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers in Germany 2022-2023)
- Recommended lawyer in the field of “Data Protection” (The Legal 500 2021-2022)
- Ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers” in the area of “Data Protection Law, Intellectual Property Law” (Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers in Germany 2021)
- Ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers” in the area of “IP/IT, Data Protection” (Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers in Germany 2020)
Publications
- Ritzmann, Katy / Mössner, Philipp / Bernau, Timo: Initial Public Offerings 2022 – Germany, in: Global Legal Insights – Initial Public Offerings 2022, Sixth Edition, p. 62ff.
- Ritzmann, Katy / Bernau, Timo Patrick: Mehr Einhörner aus der Start-up-Hauptstadt, in: Börsen-Zeitung, 17.03.2022.
- Ritzmann, Katy / Mössner, Philipp / Bernau, Timo: Initial Public Offerings 2021- Jurisdiction Chapter: Germany, in: Global Legal Insights, Fifth Edition, p. 73 – 83.
- Ritzmann, Katy: In Israel you simply sign a contract and send it per email, in Venture Capital Magazin Special, 14f.
- Ritzmann, Katy / Hänig, Andreas: Das Safe Harbor-Urteil und seine Folgen, in: K&R, 2016, Beilage 1 zu Heft 9, 40 ff. (The Safe-Harbor decision and it‘s consequences)
- Ritzmann, Katy: Was das Pick-Up-Urteil für RTL bedeutet, in: HORIZONT, 18.02.2016.
- Ritzmann, Katy: EuGH bringt Geschäftsmodell der IT-Riesen ins Wanken, in: Die Welt, 06.10.2015.
- Ritzmann, Katy: Kachelmann siegt gegen Springer-Verlag, in: Der Tagesspiegel, 30.09.2015.
- Ritzmann, Katy: Der Markenschutz von Werbeslogans, Tectum Verlag Marburg, 2009 (Dissertation)
