Dr Kay Oelschlägel

Lawyer Partner
Certified Specialist in IT Law
Dr Kay Oelschlägel

Areas of practice

Dr Kay Oelschlägel is a certified specialist in information technology (IT) law. Based on over 25 years of experience working as a lawyer and his extensive expertise, he advises national and international clients on judicial and extrajudicial matters pertaining to IT law, in particular, when drafting and negotiating software licence agreements with large software producers (SAP (S/4 HANA), Microsoft, IBM, Oracle), IT outsourcing contracts, software supply agreements, IT migration projects and also in contract award procedures regarding IT services. Other important areas of work are data protection law (amongst other things, negotiating with supervisory authorities (notification obligations and administrative fine proceedings), protection of employee data, data protection and co-determination, e-health data protection, outsourcing and cloud computing) and advising on digital transformation projects. Additional areas of advice are e-commerce, trademark, copyright and competition law, as well as press law.

Vita

Dr Kay Oelschlägel has provided advisory and litigation services in IT and data protection law for more than 25 years now. He has worked for Luther or its predecessor companies since he was first admitted to the German Bar. Kay Oelschlägel is one of the founding authors of the professional journal “IP-Rechtsberater”, which was first published by Otto Schmidt Verlag at the beginning of 2010, and, since 2020, has been a permanent author of the professional journal “IT-Rechtsberater” from the same publisher. In addition, he is a co-editor and author of the legal compendium “Online-Shop” and the author of numerous further publications. From 2005 to 2009, he worked as an assistant lecturer for industrial property and competition law at the University of Hamburg (Germany) and, from 2007 to 2009, was a lecturer for Dr Granneman & Fürstenberg, where he trained lawyers to become certified specialists in IT law (“Fachanwalt IT Recht”). From 2006, Kay Oelschlägel was the deputy chairman, and since 2019 has been the chairman of the expert committee IT law of the Hamburg Bar Association. He is a certified specialist in IT law.

Honors and distinctions

  • The Legal 500 Germany 2025: Mention in the category "Information Technology - Data Protection" (first recommendation in 2023)
  • kanzleimonitor.de 2022/2023: Recommended in "IT Law" (first recommendation in 2019/2020)
  • Best Lawyers 2025: Recommendation in "Information Technology Law" 
  • Law Firms in Germany 2012: Recommended in "IP and Media" (first recommended in 2010)

Clients

  • Providing on-going advice to numerous DAX-listed corporations and large medium-sized companies on the drafting and negotiation of software licence agreements with large software producers (SAP, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, VMware, etc.)
  • Advised important software producers and IT service providers on the drafting and negotiation of IT project agreements/customer contracts
  • Advised numerous contracting authorities on invitations to tender for IT services, in particular in the health care industry and transport sector
  • Provided comprehensive advice to an internationally operating software provider on matters pertaining to IT contract law
  • Advised a municipal cooperative on a large IT outsourcing project

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