Tilman Mueller-Stöfen, LL.M.

Rechtsanwalt, Partner
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Tilman Mueller-Stöfen has been advising national and international companies of all sizes on IT, data and contract law for more than 20 years. His clients include companies from various industries, such as software, cloud computing, platforms, life sciences, AdTech and FinTech.

Focus Areas
  • IT Contract Law

  • Software Law

  • Data and Data Protection Law

  • Cloud Computing

  • IT Security

  • Open Source Compliance

  • Digital Health

  • Artificial Intelligence

Education and Experience
  • Study of Law at the Universität Regensburg, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Freie Universität Berlin and Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands)

  • Legal Counsel Central East Europe and member of the DACH management team at a US software manufacturer, Chair of BSA (Business Software Alliance) DACH

  • Lawyer at the law firm Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff and owner of law firm for IT law

  • Partner at Weitnauer Rechtsanwälte

  • Since 2024 Partner at nucleus partners Rechtsanwälte

Projects (selection)
  • Contract drafting for and legal advice to a healthcare corporation concerning the development and implementation of web-based software solutions and online platforms for processing and sharing health data

  • Advising on, drafting and negotiating cooperation agreements between providers of AI-based software solutions and platforms for medical diagnostics

  • Drafting and negotiating contracts between a healthcare group and the provider of a data platform for processing and sharing health data for research purposes

  • Advising a healthcare corporation on the development, implementation and use of a group-wide CRM system

  • Advising pharmaceutical and biotech companies on data protection law in international clinical trial and clinical study projects

  • Advising on the licensing of an SDK for the development of a software solution connecting to the German healthcare system's self-contained network for transmission of medical data (telematics infrastructure)

  • Drafting and negotiating agreements in cloud computing projects, including agreements between the provider of IoT solutions and computer manufacturers, automotive groups and shipping companies, between the provider of a customer onboarding solution and financial institutions, and between the provider of a cloud-based ERP solution and shipping companies

  • Contract drafting for and data protection advice to a technology company on the production, distribution and use of intelligent social care robots

  • Advising on digital identities, including legal advice to an online platform for identity verification on the admissibility of an electronic signature solution for identification in accordance with the German Money Laundering Act (GwG), and advice to an umbrella organization of financial institutions on the introduction of electronic customer identification by means of an ID Card with electronic identification function (eID card)

  • Advising on IT, IP and data protection law in M&A projects

  • Negotiating technology transfer agreements, such as agreements on the acquisition of apps, including social media accounts, websites and developer agreements associated therewith

  • Advising on the structure and establishment of online platforms regarding AI-supported generation and brokerage of package tours, accommodation and travel services, geo and earth observation (EO) data, optimizing trading of online advertising space and display of personalized advertising, and digital document management

  • Advising on the setting up various B2B and B2C webshops

  • Advising on data protection and IT security law in various projects, including the secondary use of health data obtained through a company acquisition, the primary and secondary use of data generated with web-based software for learning progression diagnostics and IT security law requirements for a document management platform

  • Advice, contract drafting and negotiation in outsourcing projects, including the outsourcing of SAP systems of a group company for IT purchasing, and the outsourcing of a pharmaceutical company’s IT environment

  • Advice, contract drafting and negotiation in software development projects, including a project concerning the development of POS software in a major German infrastructure project, and international IT projects of a leading German car rental company and provider of global mobility services

  • Advice on the use of open source software (OSS); drafting open source compliance policies and providing respective trainings for technology providers

  • Advice and representation of clients in IT contract law disputes, in particular disputes over distribution law and software failures

  • Advice and representation of clients in data protection disputes, in particular disputes over the assertion of data subject rights and direct marketing activities

Publications (selection)
  • Beck’sches Formularbuch IT-Recht
    Edited by Wolfgang Weitnauer and Tilman Mueller-Stöfen, 5th edition, 2020.

  • Gesundheitsdatennutzung für Forschung und Entwicklung, GoingPublic „Plattform Life Sciences“, March 2023, p. 34

  • von Schenck/Mueller-Stöfen: Die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung: Auswirkungen in der Praxis, GWR 2017, 171

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