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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 “Corporate Law”, “Private-Equity-Transactions (Mid-Cap)” and “Venture Capital” (Juve Handbuch 2022/2023)
Ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers 2022” in the area of “Data Security and Privacy Law, IT Law, Intellectual Property Law” (Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers in Germany)
Recommended lawyer in the field of “Data Protection” (The Legal 500 2022)
Recommended lawyer in the field of “Corporate Law”, “Private-Equity-Transactions (Mid-Cap)” and “Venture Capital” (Juve Handbuch 2021/2022)
Ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers 2021” in the area of “Data Protection Law, Intellectual Property Law” (Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers in Germany)
Recommended lawyer in the field of “Data Protection” (The Legal 500 2021)
Ranking “Germany’s Best Lawyers 2020” in the area of “IP/IT, Data Protection” (Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers in Germany)
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)
Germany’s Best Lawyers 2022: Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers recommend 53 lawyers from GSK Stockmann
The renowned US publication Best Lawyers has once again published its list of “Germany’s Best Lawyers” of the year in cooperation with Handelsblatt. A total of 53 GSK lawyers were ...