- Since March 2016 lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Aachen (Wirtschaftsprivatrecht) in Media and Communications for Digital Business
- Since March 2016, Member of the IT-Legal & Intellectual Property Protection and Copyright Law Department of the AachenerAnwaltverein e.V.
- Since October 2014 certified external data protection officer (TÜV)
- Since October 2014 mentor and expert in the consulting network of the founder region of Aachen
- Since April 2014 founding partner at Abedin & Schwiering in Aachen
- 2011 – 2014: Lawyer (Consultant, as of 2013 Senior Consultant) in Intellectual Property / IT Law at PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal in Düsseldorf:
Consulting of national and international clients from start-ups to medium-sized companies to Dax-30 companies with a focus on IT, data protection and media law in the national and international context
- 2010: Second legal state exam, OLG Hamm
- 2008 – 2010: Traineeship in Münster and Sydney (Australia)
- 2008: Internship at Peter Williams & Company in Swansea (Wales)
- 2007: First legal state exam, OLG Hamm
- 2002 – 2007: Studies of law studies at the University of Trier and the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster:
University focus: Business and enterprises (market and competition): corporate law, intellectual property rights, antitrust law, copyright, drafting of contracts in commercial law, competition law
2002– 2004: Specialized foreign language training (FFA) in Anglo-American law
- 2000 – 2005: Founder & Managing Director of Sitetec Websolutions (Abedin & Schwiering GbR):
Development and implementation of software solutions and internet presentations for small to medium-sized companies including shopping cart and content management systems (in C, PHP & MySQL, HTML and Javascript)
- Born and graduated from high school in Aachen
RA Sebastian Schwiering advises companies primarily in the fields of information technology, data privacy and media law.
His recent experience includes:
IT and Data Privacy:
- Extended internal data privacy audit with a special focus on compliance and data processing agreements throughout multinational company group with more than 100 subsidiaries
- Legal advice on the implementation of a national cloud platform in German blue chip company
- Legal advice to software providers on matters of international data privacy in particular regarding data processing, cloud services and international data transfer
- Drafting and implementation of global data privacy guidelines within a multinational company group
- IT Due Diligences in several M&A transactions
- Contracts for agile software development
- Legal consulting regarding extensive IT outsourcing projects
- Advising on IT security cases, complying with information obligations towards data subjects and data protection authorities
Media law:
- Comprehensive consulting in eCommerce, e.g. onlineshops, portals and social media platforms with regard to information obligations, copyright, data privacyy, terms of use and payment
- Licensing, enforcement and defense in copyright and competition law
- Protection of intellectual property by advising on domains, taste and usage patterns, trademarks, patents and further know-how
- Consulting and enforcement in the field of social media
- Consulting of artists in the fields of photography, film, music and art
Datenschutzrechtliche Grenzen verwaltungsseitiger Transparenz
Beitrag im Sammelwerk Transparente Staatstätigkeit
Gaming & Recht - Zwei Bereiche wachsen zusammen
mit stud. iur. Burak Zurel, MultiMedia und Recht 7/2016
(Schwiering/Zurel, MMR 2016, 440)
Der Beitrag ist bei Beck Online verfügbar.
LG Memmingen: Beweisverwertungsverbot bei Dash-Cam-Aufzeichnungen (Urteilsanmekrung)
Zeitschrift für Datenschutz 4/2016
(Schwiering, ZD 2016, 179)
Das Homeoffice in der Arbeitswelt 2.0: Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für Telearbeit
mit stud. iur. Burak Zurel, Zeitschrift für Datenschutz 1/2016,
(Schwiering/Zurel, ZD 2016, 17)
Der Beitrag ist bei Beck Online verfügbar.
AG Nienburg: Strafrechtliche Verwertbarkeit von Dash-Cam Aufzeichnungen
mit RA Matthias Lachenmann, Computer und Recht, 6/2015,
(Lachenmann/Schwiering, CR 2015, 400-403)
Big Data und Datenschutz - Rechtliche Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze
mit RA Dr. Jan-Peter Ohrtmann, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift, 41/2014, S. 2984 (Ohrtmann/Schwiering, NJW 2014, 2984)
Der Beitrag ist bei Beck Online verfügbar.
Datenschutzrechtliche Rahmenbedingungen bei Smart-TV: Zulässigkeit von HbbTV-Applikationen
mit RAin Dr. Karin Schmidtmann, Zeitschrift für Datenschutzrecht, 9/2014, S. 448 (Schmidtmann/Schwiering, ZD 2014, 448)
Der Beitrag ist bei Beck Online verfügbar.
VG Ansbach: Datenschutzrechtliche Unzulässigkeit von Dash-Cams
mit RA Matthias Lachenmann, ZD-Aktuell 2014, 04300
(Lachenmann/Schwiering, ZD-Aktuell 2014, 04300)
Der Beitrag ist bei Beck Online verfügbar.
Datenschutzrechtliche (Un-)Zulässigkeit des Betriebs von On-Board-Kameras in PKW
mit RA Matthias Lachenmann, Neue Zeitschrift für Verkehrsrecht, 7/2014 S. 291 ff. (Lachenmann/Schwiering, NVZ 2014, 291)
Der Beitrag ist bei Beck Online verfügbar.
Sebastian Schwiering
Lawyer, Partner
Areas of expertise:
Data privacy,
informaton technology law, media Law
Contact:
schwiering@as-pvr.de