We advise companies on the legal setup and structuring of IT infrastructures. We support the selection, implementation, and contractual safeguarding of cloud services, SaaS solutions, hosting models, interfaces, databases, security concepts, and external IT service providers.
We ensure that technical decisions are legally sound from the outset. This includes clear responsibilities, reliable service descriptions, Service Level Agreements, data protection and security requirements, usage rights, documentation obligations, exit clauses, and data handover regulations.
In this way, we help companies build IT infrastructures that are not only functional and scalable, but also contractually sound, data protection compliant, and organizationally robust.
We assess the legal significance of server locations, cloud regions, databases, and international IT service providers for a digital business model. Especially with modern cloud infrastructures, a purely technical perspective is insufficient.
We analyze where systems are operated, where data is stored or processed, which service providers are involved, and from which countries systems are accessed. At the same time, we examine which markets are actively targeted and whether this makes German or European law relevant.
We translate technical infrastructure decisions into legal risk areas. These include cloud contracts, data localization, subcontractors, access rights, audit rights, availabilities, security requirements, and exit scenarios.
We examine international data flows and data protection requirements for cross-border IT infrastructures. As soon as personal data of customers, business partners, employees, or users is processed, the technical data flows must be legally classified and documented.
We advise on data processing agreements, joint controllership, third-country transfers, Standard Contractual Clauses, Transfer Impact Assessments, technical and organizational measures, deletion concepts, and data protection information.
Especially in digital sales, data protection issues are closely linked to IT infrastructure. Tracking, CRM, newsletters, payment, fulfillment, retargeting, customer accounts, support tickets, and analytics tools often intertwine and therefore should not be examined in isolation.
We advise on terms and conditions and IT contracts for international digital business models. This involves not just individual clauses, but the question of whether contract structure, technical implementation, and market targeting align.
We examine how terms and conditions can be effectively incorporated into digital contracts, which law can be chosen, and what limitations must be observed regarding liability, warranty, service descriptions, support, availability, usage rights, data access, and termination.
We design and review SaaS agreements, cloud agreements, licensing terms, platform terms, reseller portal terms, Service Level Agreements, data protection addenda, subcontractor arrangements, and exit clauses.
We ensure that contract documents reflect the technical reality. To do this, we clarify, among other things, where the service is provided, who has access to systems and data, what availability levels are guaranteed, and what obligations customers, providers, and service providers have.
By Cross-Border IT, we mean international IT, cloud, and data structures that operate across national borders. These include cloud systems, server locations, SaaS applications, payment service providers, CRM systems, platforms, support structures, and digital sales channels. We examine what legal requirements arise from these and how they can be reflected contractually and organizationally.
We assess market targeting based on various criteria. Relevant factors can include German-language content, delivery to Germany or the EU, prices in Euros, targeted advertising, local domains, German-speaking support, European references, or the explicit addressing of European business customers. The more strongly an offering is geared towards a market, the more likely its legal requirements become relevant.
We recommend a review particularly before an EU market entry, when establishing international online shops or reseller portals, when introducing new cloud or SaaS systems, when using foreign service providers, when international data flows change, or before concluding significant IT contracts. The earlier we are involved, the better technical and contractual structures can be designed to be legally compliant.
