Philipp Wolf, LL.M. (UQ)

Philipp Wolf advises German entities as well as foreign conglomerates on all aspects of IT and data privacy law. His practice ranges from strategic advice to the legal implementation of complex projects. A particular focus of his work is the legal support of digitalization projects and transformation processes. This includes, in particular, structuring, drafting, and negotiating multi-faceted and technically complex IT agreements.

Philipp also advises on all aspects of regulatory issues in connection with digital business models and innovative future topics. His expertise includes the e-health, e-mobility, and data economy industries, where he advises on structuring matters to ensure the clients are legally compliant data-driven business models and compliant with industry-specific and data privacy requirements.

Another focus of Philipp’s practice is to support corporate transactions. In this context, he identifies, analyzes, and evaluates IT and data privacy risks, for example in connection with software issues.  This ensures that the clients can make informed decisions concerning any IT and data privacy issues and that the respective M&A transaction proceeds smoothly and efficiently.

• Ongoing data privacy advice to an IT service provider in connection with digitalization projects and transformation processes
• Data privacy and software law (in particular, open source) assessment of a software application developed by the client in connection with the planned sale of the company to a US insurance group
• Advising several companies in connection with notification obligations following data privacy breaches
• Data privacy advice to several clients in connection with information requests under the GDPR
• Advising several counties in connection with the implementation of the federal broadband funding program for grey and light grey areas for the establishment and expansion of fiber-optic networks (telecommunications network)
• General terms and conditions and telecommunications law advice to a transportation company in connection with the use of its free WiFi offering
• Defense of a company against warranty claims relating to resold IT hardware
• Advising a German IT system house on structuring, drafting, and implementing a group-wide template for data processing agreements
• Advising and drafting contractual documentation for a SaaS solution in the field of ESG and real estate valuation
• Advising an IT service provider on the data regulatory assessment of its IT services, in particular, regarding the applicability of the Data Act
• IT contract law advice (in particular, software maintenance and support) to a regional transportation company (bus services)
• General terms and conditions advice to an IT service provider regarding its entire portfolio of services and deliveries (SaaS, IaaS, software sale/rental, hardware sale/rental, software development and customizing, training and consulting services)
• Data privacy advice to a corporate conglomerate on using and implementing AI applications, in particular drafting and rolling-out an AI guideline

• The New Law on Cyber Resilience – Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) – (ed. Gerhard Wiebe), Nomos, 1st edition 2025

• Davit – IT Law Working Group of the German Bar Association (Arbeitsgemeinschaft IT-Recht im Deutschen Anwaltverein e.V.)

Philipp has been a German Attorney at Law since 2017.  He became a Salary Partner at SCHIEDERMAIR in March, 2026. Prior to joining SCHIEDERMAIR, he worked for several international commercial law firms. In 2020/2021, he completed an LL.M. program with distinction at the University of Queensland in Australia.

Philipp studied law at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) with a focus on media law. He completed his post-graduate legal training period (Referendariat) at the Higher Regional Court of Berlin (Kammergericht) in 2016, including stints at an international law firm in Düsseldorf and in Washington, D.C.