Thanos Rammos, LL.M.

Thanos has worked as a lawyer for Taylor Wessing since 2011 and specialises in advising on IT law and media law. He has an excellent track record in dealing with the legal aspects of copyright, competition, publishing, youth protection law, as well as on IT contract law. His special focus is on issues of data protection legislation. He advises especially with a focus on health tech companies in the life sciences and healthcare sector.

As a result of his previous activities and various secondments in different industries, Thanos has in-depth knowledge of the processes and needs of international companies. In his consultancy at Taylor Wessing, Thanos provides project-oriented hands-on counseling for Start-ups as well as for medium-sized businesses in national and international matters. Since 2015 Thanos is lecturer at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Technik (University of Applied Sciences) Berlin. He publishes regularly on a number of technology-oriented topics and regularly lectures on matters of the healthcare sector. Thanos is a specialist lawyer for information technology law as well as a certified Data Protection Officer (TÜV).

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Career

Since 2019	Partner, Taylor Wessing
Since 2015	Lecturer, Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Technik, Berlin
2011 – 2019	Associate, Taylor Wessing

2010	Legal Staff, Council of Europe, Strasbourg
2008 – 2010	Legal clerkship, Berlin
2007 – 2008	Paralegal, British Telecom, London

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Education

2019	Specialist lawyer for Information Technology Law
2011	Established as a lawyer, Munich
2010	State examination, Berlin

2006 – 2007	LL.M., International Business Law, University of London
1999 – 2005	Legal studies, Philipps–Universität Marburg/Universität zu Köln

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Publications

An update on privacy regulator guidance for life sciences and healthcare in light of COVID-19, PlugIn – Wir denken das Recht der digitalen Zukunft, Edition #30, May 2020
EU data protection regulators on life sciences and healthcare services, in Global Data Hub, January 2020
AI and big data in the healthcare sector, PlugIn – Wir denken das Recht der digitalen Zukunft, edition #17, January 2019
Artificial Intelligence und Smart Devices – Ethik und Rechtsprechung in Zeiten der Digitalisierung, PlugIn – Wir denken das Recht der digitalen Zukunft, edition #16, December 2018
Proposed amendments to outsourcing in Germany: a step forward for the medical sector, Cecile Park Media, September 2017 Proposed amendments to outsourcing in Germany: a step forward for the medical "
International Workplace Data Issues in Germany, in Workplace data: law and litigation (2014 Supplement), 2014
Werbe- und datenschutzrechtliche Aspekte von Health-Apps, in: Medizinprodukte Journal, November 2014
Kommentierung zu § 11 BDSG, in: Systematischer Praxiskommentar Datenschutzrecht, 2014
Anmerkung zu einer Entscheidung des EuGH, Urt. v. 19.12.2013 (C-202/12; CR 2014, 156) - Zur Reichweite des sui-generis-Datenbankschutzrechts im Hinblick auf die Weiterverwendung von Datenbankinhalten durch spezialisierte Meta-Suchmaschinen, in CR 2014, 16
Kontaktlose Zahlungen mittels mobiler Endgeräte - The future is near ... field communication? – Datenschutzrechtliche Rahmenbedingungen, in: ZD 2013, 587
German court rules on right to administration of Facebook groups, in: e-commerce-law-reports, September 2013
Cloud Computing und Sozialdatenschutz, in: CR 2013, p. 265-272
Social Media Policies: a "must have" or "nice to have"? A German perspective, in: Global Data Hub, February 2013
Datenschutzrechtliche Aspekte verschiedener Arten “verhaltensbezogener” Onlinewerbung, in: K&R 2011, p. 692-698

Additional languages

English

Greek

Expertise

Sectors Technology, media & communications Life sciences & healthcare Biotechnology Healthtech/Digital health Medical devices Pharmaceuticals

Experience

NORD Holding on the acquisition of Zentrum Gesundheit Group

NORD Holding, a leading private equity house, on the acquisition of the majority interest in Zentrum Gesundheit Group, a leading German group of ophthalmic surgery and diagnostic centres, from Waterland Private Equity. NORD Holding, together with the management and medical team, acquired a stake as a new partner and majority shareholder. In this deal the Taylor Wessing team again demonstrated its interdisciplinary expertise in the areas of healthcare M&A, regulatory and acquisition financing.

Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG on its public takeover of the Belgian company Eckert & Ziegler BEBIG SA

Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG, a German FSE stock listed company on all aspects of a cross-border merger. Eckert & Ziegler Strahlen- und Medizintechnik AG, one of the world's largest suppliers of isotope technology components for radiation therapy and nuclear medicine with headquarters in Berlin, as absorbing entity merged with the Belgian Eckert & Ziegler BEBIG SA, which was listed on the Euronext Brussels stock exchange. The transaction is a rare example of cross-border mergers of two listed companies on the basis of the European harmonized requirements of the EU Company Directive (EU) 2017/1132.

Awards

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2020	Leading individual: Intellectual property law
Legal 500 Germany 2020	"Thanos Rammos is a very strong partner: pragmatic, business-oriented, to the point and a very good communicator."
Legal 500 Germany 2019	''IT and media law expert Thanos Rammos is particularly praised for his 'fantastic expertise and in-depth knowledge of the subject-matter'.'