Jan Byok

Practice Areas

Public Projects & Procurement

Regulatory & Administrative

Career

Jan is a partner in Bird & Bird's Düsseldorf office. He leads the German regulatory and administrative team, which is one of the most highly regarded in Germany.

As a specialist lawyer and coordinator of large and complex infrastructure and compliance projects with in-depth technical know-how in information technology and public procurement - as well as a TÜV-certified external data protection officer and IT compliance manager - he focuses on the planning, implementation and reorganisation of high-profile technology and infrastructure projects in the public sector, as well as on in-court and out-of-court litigation, mediation and arbitration.

He specialises in public procurement and contract law, IT and communications technology law, and competition and antitrust law. Jan Byok has extensive experience in project management and in-depth knowledge of sectors such as defence and security, technology and communications, healthcare, energy and utilities (water, energy and waste management), transport and logistics (ÖPNV, SPNV) as well as planning and construction.

In addition to his own publications, he writes for legal and business journals.

Professional Memberships

Member of the IT law working group in the German Lawyers Association

Part of the executive Committee of Gesellschaft für Wehrtechnik e.V. (German society for defense technologies)

Member of German Atlantic Treaty Association

Member of the Clausewitz-Gesellschaft e.V.

Member of the Reservist Association of Deutsche Bundeswehr

Publications

Byok/Jaeger, Vergaberecht, 4th edition June 2018

Neue Juristische Wochenschrift- edition 23/2019, starting on page 1650

Byok/Csaki, 'Digital Health', 1st edition, June 2023

Personal

Studies:

• Legal studies at the university of Hamburg

• Post-graduate legal studies at the University of Edinburgh in European Law with a Master of Laws (LL.M.)

• Legal clerkship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court Hamburg

Admissions:

• Admitted to the German bar in 1994

• Specialist lawyer for procurement law

• Specialist lawyer for IT law

• External Data Protection Officer (TÜV-certified)

• IT Compliance Manager (TÜV-certified)

Languages Spoken

German

English