Carsten Kociok
FinTech Guide 2025
Band 1 : FinTech Legal
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About
Provided by Carsten Kociok
Practice Areas
Technology, Media & Telecommunications
Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
Financial Services Litigation
Financial Regulatory & Compliance
Retail
IT & Business Process Outsourcing
IP Technology Licensing & Transactions
Banking & Financial Services
Digital Infrastructure, Data Center and Cloud Computing
Fintech
Career
Carsten Kociok is a partner in the Technology, Financial Services and Data Privacy Practice in Berlin and Co-Head of Greenberg Traurig’s global FinTech Group. He advises national and international clients across all industries, including financial services, information technology, ecommerce, media, healthcare, telecoms, retail and real estate, on a wide variety of complex commercial and regulatory matters.
Carsten is a leading technology specialist, ranked in Band 1 for Fintech Legal in Germany (Chambers and Partners 2022 and 2023). He has in-depth and wide-range experience in the areas of privacy and cybersecurity, payments law, financial services, e-money products, blockchain technology and financial and banking regulations. Carsten regularly assists clients in licensing projects and audit proceedings with financial regulators and advises on the contractual and regulatory aspects of developing, implementing and operating financial technology products and transactions.
On the data privacy side, Carsten counsels clients on complex data-driven business models and regulatory matters, including on international data transfers, data privacy compliance, monetization of data, artificial intelligence, litigation, cybersecurity and data breach response.
Carsten regularly lectures and publishes on various FinTech and data privacy topics. Prior to joining the firm, Carsten worked at Olswang Germany for eight years and in the Capital Transaction Practice Group of an international law firm in New York.
Concentrations:
FinTech and financial services
Data privacy and cybersecurity
Technology transactions
GDPR compliance programs
Digital investment and crypto assets
Payment services and e-wallets
Consumer credit and “buy-now-pay-later” products
eCommerce and digitalization
Personal
Second Legal State Exam, Berlin/Germany, 2006
LL.M. in American Law, Boston University School of Law/USA, 2002
First Legal State Exam, Humboldt-University Berlin/Germany, 2001
Chambers Review
FinTech
Carsten Kociok has expertise in payments, data protection, blockchain and digital currencies. He advises on financial services regulatory matters, money laundering regulations, data protection and security, and competition and contract law.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Carsten is super professional and effective."
"Carsten Kociok is detail-driven. He supports the whole process from the get-go until its end. His feedback is always on time and a step ahead."
"Carsten Kociok has great expertise in EU law and regulations."
"Carsten is super professional and effective."
"Carsten Kociok is detail-driven. He supports the whole process from the get-go until its end. His feedback is always on time and a step ahead."
"Carsten Kociok has great expertise in EU law and regulations."
