Carsten Kociok

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.