Olivier Reisch

• Advising on a complex pan European cyber-attack spanning over 1,000 entities in the client group and 50+ countries around the globe.
• Advising a German credit institution that will be offering a wider suite of services to clients from a new branch established in Luxembourg on their local GDPR compliance.
• Advising the Walt Disney Company and 21st Century Fox Inc. on the launch of their Disney+ streaming service in Luxembourg and the Benelux on the regulatory, copyrights, data protection/privacy, telecommunications, banking and consumer law aspects.
• Advising the Luxembourg banking association on drafting/negotiating the appropriate contractual documentation (transfer of technology; assignment of copyrights; licensing agreements ) and on creating an ad hoc structure to shelter IP assets.
• Represented a US based company in a litigation before the Luxembourg administrative tribunal in relation to the use of the preferential tax regime on intellectual property assets.
• Advising Adobe on the framework applicable to e-signatures in Luxembourg, in the context of the launch of an exclusive new product.
• Advising Koweit Petroleum Belgium on the Luxembourg regulatory framework applicable to the provision of car batteries charging stations.
• Advising Almet Pets, a company specializing in cannabis products for animal use, on the regulatory framework applicable to the highly specific sector of cannabis products for pets in Luxembourg.
• Advising a number of automotive manufacturers on their regulatory and consumer law requirements in Luxembourg, including documentation for new innovative and upcoming car technologies, as well as new car product lines.
• Advising a Japanese bank on the termination of a software license and maintenance agreement with an IT provider.

• Member of the team awarded IFT's Legal Adviser of the Year 2024, recognising the team's efforts in cross-border restructuring and turnaround work, including the Part 26A restructuring plan for F rst group of companies, based in Luxembourg.
• Olivier was rated in Chambers as Band 3 lawyer and considered for maintaining a broad caseload that features GDPR compliance, outsourcing agreements and technology sector disputes 2022-24
• Olivier was rated in Legal 500 (since 2020) as “Next Generation Partner” and considered for being “calm and pragmatic” for looking “into every detail of the matter” , and being a strong and clear communicator .
• “Olivier Reisch has extensive experience and practical knowledge in his field. He brought a lot of feedback, especially regarding enforcement by data protection authorities (drafting policies and procedures to deal with enforcement actions). Olivier is also a fantastic human being, very approachable and dedicated to his clients: working with him is both professionally and individually rewarding.” Legal 500, 2020
• Olivier was rated in Chambers as “Up and Coming” considered for his “legal depth and market knowledge", 2019-20

• Publication of the Luxembourg DORA law, July 2024
• DSA and DMA Conference at the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce: Key Takeaways, February 2024
• AKD Partners GDPR Fines and Data Breach Survey, January 2024
• Impact of directive on transparency and equal pay for men and women in Luxembourg, December 2023
• AI governance posing biggest challenge to AI deployment reveals AKD Partners in research report, Lexgo, Agefi Luxembour, Farvest, December 2023
• Corporate reorganizations in the US, Belgium and Luxembourg: What should you be considering? Getting the Deal Through (Lexology), April 2020
• Investigation powers of the Luxembourg data protection regulator: Clarity at last?, 6 March 2020
• Luxembourg - Global bribery offenses guide, 4 December 2019
• Building information modeling and the Internet of things in the commercial real estate market, 26 July 2019
• Corporate reorganizations in the US, Belgium and Luxembourg: What should you be considering?, 13 June 2019
• Luxembourg Data Protection Supervisory Authority confirms mandatory Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA), prompting companies to review their internal compliance, 13 March 2019
• Luxembourg now takes into account distributed ledger technology in its securities law framework, 22 February 2019
• Hard Brexit scenario: What happens to data transfers with the UK, 18 January 2019
• GDPR and smartphone Data Protection in the world of smart devices, Ace, Wolters Kluwer, September 2018

Olivier regularly chairs and organises conferences and seminars in Luxembourg and abroad.

• Panelist on GDPR at the 2018 ALFI Leading Edge Conference
• Moderator of a workshop in relation to the recruitment process in light of employment and privacy laws (2018)
• Keynote speaker/moderator at ABBL events dedicated to Banking on Blockchain and Consent by the data subject Guidelines for banks (2017)
• Moderator of a GDPR workshop for the Luxembourg Private Equity Association (LPEA) (2017)
• Chairman of the 2016 Data Protection conference of IFE in Luxembourg

• Member of the Luxembourg Bankers Association s (ABBL) Digital Banking and Fintech Innovation Cluster
• Co-chair of the Luxembourg Investment Fund Association's (ALFI) GDPR working group
• Member of the Association of Banking Lawyers (Association des Juristes de Droit Bancaire) (ALJB)
• Founding member of the Immaterial Law Committee of the Luxembourg Bar Association
• Member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
• Member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
• Member of the Employment Law Specialists Association (ELSA)
• Member of UNIFAB's College of Experts