Markus Andréewitch is an absolute top address when it comes to IT law. He has enormous negotiation skills.
Markus Andréewitch
Partner | Attorney at law
Markus Andréewitch is an attorney-at-law and partner at our firm and has extensive expertise and experience in numerous areas of IT, corporate and civil law. Thanks to his detailed knowledge and understanding of the challenges faced by various sectors and industries, he is not only a legal advisor to many clients, but also a long-standing contact and companion.
His main areas of expertise include:
- IT, AI and technology projects
- Contract drafting and enforcement in both the public and private sectors
- Regulatory affairs and cyber security (DORA, NIS, CRA, etc.)
- SaaS models
- SLAs
- IT outsourcing and cloud computing
- Data and data protection law
- Open source
- Digital sovereignty
- Software and licensing issues
- Project problems
- Legal controlling
- Support in legal disputes
- Distribution models
- Copyright law
- Competition law
- Commercial law
- Damages and product liability
- Civil law
- Doctor of Law, University of Vienna (1979)
- Legal associate at Barnes, Richardson and Colburn, Washington, D.C. (1980)
- Legal associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Brussels (1981)
- Aspirant lawyer in Vienna (1982 to 1986)
- Admitted to the bar in Austria as attorney-at-law (1986)
- Foundation of own law firm (1986)
- Cooperation with Barrister Univ.Prof. Dr. A. Nicholas Simon, J.D. (1990 to 2016)
- Founder of andréewitch & partner rechtsanwälte GmbH (2017)
- German, English and French
- The Austrian Commercial Code (Translation of the Commercial Code into English (Manz Verlag)
- Company Law and Accounting (Co-Author) (Manz Verlag)
- Legal Requirements for Document Management, Austria
- Leitfaden Cloud Computing Recht & Datenschutz
- Der Weg in die Cloud (Co-Autor)
- In addition, Markus Andréewitch has authored numerous articles on issues relating to tort and product liability law, IT law, distribution and contract law, and public procurement law in renowned specialist journals.
- Markus Andréewitch has given over 250 specialist lectures and seminars in Austria, Germany and abroad on contract law, IT law, online banking, data protection, distribution law, open source, NIS, product liability, compensation law and public procurement law.
- Markus Andréewitch is a member of several national and international IT and IT law organisations and member of supervisory bodies.
- Markus Andréewitch has been listed for many years in leading international publications (Chambers, Legal 500, JUVE, etc.) as one of the leading and most experienced lawyers in IT law in Austria.