Dirk A. Spacek

Experience

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  University of Zurich

  Apr 2003 - Mar 2005

  Corporate & Media/IT-Law Research & Teaching Assistant

  Research & Teaching Assistant to Prof. Rolf H. Weber (studies at Universities of Zürich & Harvard). Areas of Practice: Media-, Internet-, E-Commerce, Intellectual Property and Contract Law. Research & Publishing, Teaching Tutorials in Commercial Law, providing Computer-Law-Memoranda for FGSEC (Orbit Basle), assisting exams at the law school and for the LLM-Program of the University of Zurich School of Law.

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  Kanton Zürich

  Sept 2005 - Aug 2007

  Legal Clerk at District Court of Zurich

  -Clerkship: Drafting court decisions and assisting court sessions in various areas of the law, such as divorce & inheritance disputes; criminal law and criminal procedure; employment law (specialized employment court of Zurich); enforcement of foreign court decisions and arbitral awards, debt- and bankruptcy law (Audienzrichteramt); real estate & tenancy-law, followed by -Traineeship in mid-sized, international law firm. Worked in all practice fields: General Corporate M&A, IP/IT & Competition, Sports Law, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation/Arbitration, Private Clients. Show less

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  Lenz & Staehelin

  Feb 2009 - Jul 2013

  Associate, Senior Associate (Intellectual Property, Patents & Trademarks, Litigation & Arbitration)

  -Traditional IP-Litigation (predominantly trademark & patent disputes); advising on IP-matters (patent, copyright, trademark, design, unfair competition and protected designations of origin [PDO]); counter-piracy; IP-Due Diligence; License-, Distribution- and R&D-Agreements. -Litigation/Arbitration relating to contract law, employment law, corporate law, debt enforcement & banruptcy; support in competition law & telecommunication matters; assisting the banking department for banking and tax law memoranda. Show less

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  Walder Wyss Ltd.

  Jan 2013 - Dec 2018

  Managing Associate (Mandatsleiter), Inhouse-Secondee (IT, Media&Tech/Corporate & Commercial)

  -ICT-Business: IT-Procurement (Outsourcing, Cloud Computing, IT-Licensing & System Integrations, Maintenance & Support), Industry 4.0/IoT, E-Commerce, OSS, Digital Media & Telecom Matters, Data Protection.-Intellectual Property (IP): Copyright & Patents. Technology Transfer, Distribution & Licensing, R&D. Litigation/Arbitration in IP/IT, contract & tech-related matters.-General Contract & Commercial: Technology-Start-Up-Counselling, Media & Technology-Joint Ventures, FinTech-Matters, Employment Law (Body Leasing) for IT-Assignments, IT & Construction-projects, Entertainment Business Agreements.-Inhouse-Secondments for Sanitas Health Insurance AG, Avaloq Sourcing AG, Zurich Insurance Group Ltd. and Aduno Group for IT-transactional, privacy, regulatory and corporate legal support. Show less

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  CMS Switzerland

  Jan 2019 - now

  Partner (Head IT/IP)

  Practice Head of the IT/IP-Team of CMS. I advise on Media & Technology Matters (Software-Procurement, Outsourcing, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Cybersecurity), Media & Entertainment, Intellectual Property (Patents, Software and internet-branding-matters) as well as tech-related commercial matters. I work in advisory, transactional and contentious functions.