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Carsten Kociok is a partner in the Technology, Financial Services and Data Privacy Practice in Berlin and Co-Head of Greenberg Traurig’s global FinTech Group. He advises national and international clients across all industries, including financial services, information technology, ecommerce, media, healthcare, telecoms, retail and real estate, on a wide variety of complex commercial and regulatory matters.

Carsten is a leading technology specialist, ranked in Band 1 for Fintech Legal in Germany (Chambers and Partners 2022 and 2023). He has in-depth and wide-range experience in the areas of privacy and cybersecurity, payments law, financial services, e-money products, blockchain technology and financial and banking regulations. Carsten regularly assists clients in licensing projects and audit proceedings with financial regulators and advises on the contractual and regulatory aspects of developing, implementing and operating financial technology products and transactions.

On the data privacy side, Carsten counsels clients on complex data-driven business models and regulatory matters, including on international data transfers, data privacy compliance, monetization of data, artificial intelligence, litigation, cybersecurity and data breach response.

Carsten regularly lectures and publishes on various FinTech and data privacy topics. Prior to joining the firm, Carsten worked at Olswang Germany for eight years and in the Capital Transaction Practice Group of an international law firm in New York.

Concentrations

  • FinTech and financial services  
  • Data privacy and cybersecurity
  • Technology transactions
  • GDPR compliance programs
  • Digital investment and crypto assets
  • Payment services and e-wallets
  • Consumer credit and “buy-now-pay-later” products
  • eCommerce and digitalization

Capabilities

Recognition & Leadership

  • Listed, Chambers FinTech Legal, 2023-2024
  • Listed, The Legal 500 EMEA Guide, 2022-2024
    • Data Protection, 2022-2024
    • Information Technology and Digitalisation, 2022-2024
    • Fintech, 2023-2024
  • Team Member, a U.S. News - Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms,” “Law Firm of the Year” in Information Technology Law, 2024

Credentials

Education
  • Second Legal State Exam, Berlin/Germany, 2006
  • LL.M. in American Law, Boston University School of Law/USA, 2002
  • First Legal State Exam, Humboldt-University Berlin/Germany, 2001
Admissions
  • Germany
  • New York
Languages
  • German
  • English
  • Swedish