Dr. Sibylle Gierschmann, LL.M. (Duke University) – Partner

Sibylle primarily represents clients from the media and IT sectors, offering comprehensive services in all contentious and non-contentious matters with a special focus on copyright law, intellectual property, distribution law and e-commerce. Apart from drafting contracts and conducting litigation, she provides her clients with advice in transactions and on other strategic questions of the protection and marketing of intellectual property. Data protection is another of her specialist areas; Sibylle regularly undertakes compliance projects and data protection audits in all industries and assists with the implementation of German and European data protection requirements.

Sibylle studied law in Hamburg where she sat the legal state exams in 1994 and 1998. She wrote her doctor's thesis on a topic of EC antitrust law at the HamburgUniversity and worked in the same field as a scientific assistant to Prof. Dr. Hermann-Josef Bunte. In 1999 she earned a Master of Law (LL.M.) degree at Duke University, North Carolina, U.S.A. Sibylle is admitted to the bar in Germany and the New York bar in the U.S.

Sibylle Gierschmann regularly publishes in legal journals, in particular on topics of competition law and eCommerce. She is teaching “media law” at Ludwig-Maximilian university in Munich. Sibylle is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences about issues from her practice areas. She works for her clients in the working committee "Data Protection" of the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom e.V.) and is a member of the German Association of Law and Information (DGRI). She is also a co-president of the Duke Club of Germany, the German alumni association of DukeUniversity.

Sibylle, a native German speaker, is fluent in English.

Taylor Wessing Practices

• Intellectual Property

Taylor Wessing Industries

• Media & Entertainment
• Technology

Areas of Expertise

• Advertising and PR
• Copyright
• Data protection and data security
• E-commerce
• Film and TV
• Intellectual property rights in the technology sector
• Interactive media
• Internet and e-commerce
• Licensing and IT projects
• Press and publishing
• Technology and IT
• Unfair competition

Topical Issues

• Will IPTV kill the Television Star?