Alexander Wagner (Alex)

Alex Wagner advises German and international organizations on all aspects of compliance relating to privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital regulation. His practice focuses in particular on EU data and digital regulation, the IT and data protection dimensions of M&A, carve-out, restructuring, and outsourcing transactions, as well as on cybersecurity and incident response.

Alex has extensive experience helping businesses get ahead of emerging regulatory requirements in the areas of data privacy, cybersecurity, AI, and broader data governance. He also supports clients in refining their data governance and risk mitigation strategies when launching new products or services, including the design and implementation of robust, actionable privacy compliance frameworks that operate across the entire organization.

He regularly advises clients on the full spectrum of EU data and digital regulation, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Data Act, AI Act, Digital Services Act (DSA), NIS2 Directive, Cyber Resilience Act, Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), and European Accessibility Act. His transactional practice covers the IT and data protection aspects of M&A, carve-out, restructuring, and outsourcing deals. In the cybersecurity space, he guides clients through incident response mandates, advising on notification duties, regulatory investigations, IT-forensic workstreams, and the defense of follow-on civil litigation.

Further focal points of his work include sector-specific regulatory advice for the financial industry (notably DORA and Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation [MiCAR]), AI strategy and governance, platform and content regulation under the DSA (including for decentralized social networks), as well as internal investigations with a significant data protection dimension, for instance, cross-border eDiscovery setups and the related transfer documentation.