Viola Bensinger

Practice Areas

Technology, Media & Telecommunications

Intellectual Property & Technology

Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity

Financial Regulatory & Compliance

Litigation

IT & Business Process Outsourcing

IP Technology Licensing & Transactions

Finance

Banking & Financial Services

Emerging Technology

Career

Viola Bensinger is Global Co-Chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group and also chairs the Technology Practice as well as the Litigation Practice in Germany. She advises clients from the technology, media, health care and other industries.

Within the technology sector, Viola advises international internet, technology and healthcare companies in the areas of digitisation projects, IT outsourcing, cloud computing, e-commerce, electronic payment, data protection, software licensing as well as digital media.

She has wide-ranging experience in advising media and entertainment clients such as distributors, producers, broadcasters, digital platforms, publishers and their contracting partners on licensing and distribution, as well as the legal set-up of digital platforms. Viola also advises clients on regulatory issues, especially with regard to broadcasting law and data protection law.

Publications

Chambers Europe, 2020 and 2022.

Chambers FinTech, 2019-2021.

Personal

Education:

-Ph.D., Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster/Germany, 1998.

-Second Legal State Exam, Berlin/Germany, 1996.

-LL.M., University of Exeter/UK, 1994.

-First Legal State Exam, Universität zu Köln/Germany, 1993.