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Dr. Tobias Schelinski
Dr. Tobias Schelinski

Dr. Tobias Schelinski

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Best lawyers: IT law

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Tobias is a specialist lawyer for information technology law and heads up the industry group Logistics & Transport.

 

He is highly experienced in IT projects, including digitisation, outsourcing, e-commerce and data protection and Tobias supports his clients with strong negotiating skills in national and international technology projects. His clients praise his distinctive commercial and technical understanding and his extensive international network.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Data & cyber
Information technology
Copyright & media law
Tech Litigation

Sectors

Technology, media & communications
Logistics & transport
Games and gambling

CV

Since 2017 Lecturer, Nordakademie, Hamburg/Elmshorn
Since 2010 Partner, Taylor Wessing
Since 2010 Lecturer, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Hamburg
2011 – 2013 Lecturer, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
2005 – 2010 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2005 Admitted as a lawyer, Hamburg
2005 Second state examination
2003 – 2005 Legal clerkship, Hamburg
2004 Doctoral degree, dissertation on the application of German administrative law to overseas online services, University of Hamburg
2001 First state examination, Hamburg

Career

Since 2017 Lecturer, Nordakademie, Hamburg/Elmshorn
Since 2010 Partner, Taylor Wessing
Since 2010 Lecturer, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Hamburg
2011 – 2013 Lecturer, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
2005 – 2010 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

2005 Admitted as a lawyer, Hamburg
2005 Second state examination
2003 – 2005 Legal clerkship, Hamburg
2004 Doctoral degree, dissertation on the application of German administrative law to overseas online services, University of Hamburg
2001 First state examination, Hamburg

Publications

IT-Vertragsrecht in IT-Recht, Leupold/Wiebe/ Glossner, IT-Recht, 4. Auflage 2021

Springer-Verlag: Lehrbuch Wirtschaftsrecht, Kapitel zu IP /IT /Medien, Springer-Verlag, 2. Auflage, 2018, together with Jan Feuerhake 

C.H.Beck: Artikel in der MMR 2018, 586 zu Lootboxen in Computerspielen, C.H.Beck, 09/2018, together with Jan Feuerhake

IT-Vertragsrecht - Leupold/Glossner, IT-Recht, 2013, p. 13 - 121

Regeln für Werbung in Computerspiele – Sponsors, 05/2012

Erfolgreiches Legal Management, Berndt, Erfolgreiches Management, 2012, p. 71 - 86

Grenzüberschreitender Handel / Werbung und Internationale Wirkung des Internet -Hamburg@work, Handbuch E-Commerce Recht, 08/2009

Behördliche Aufsicht über grenzüberschreitende Online-Dienste, 03/2005

Memberships & Associations

Hamburger Logistikinitiative
Bundesverband der Logistik
GAME Bundesverband
DRI – The Voice of Defense

Additional languages

English

Awards

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2025

Featured

Best lawyers: IT law

Legal 500 2025

Recommended lawyer for the transport sector

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2024

Leading individual: Information Technology Law

Legal 500 Germany 2024

"Tobias Schelinski and his team are available at all times. Their legal knowledge is outstanding. The international contacts should be emphasised, which are essential for our matters in particular. The support in contract negotiations with our clients worldwide is excellent."

"Tobias Schelinski has been our central point of contact for all legal matters for more than 10 years. Outstanding industry knowledge, excellent strategist in contract negotiations."

"We work primarily with the IT / Games team led by Dr Schelinski, but we always have access to other teams for ancillary topics. The networking between the teams is unparalleled."

"Dr Tobias Schelinski is our central point of contact. He is always matter-of-fact, has an excellent technical background, but is nevertheless prepared to take a step back on special topics and leave the room to other partners or outstanding associates."

Recommended Lawyer: Germany - Sports & Gaming

Recommended Lawyer: Germany - Data

Recommended Lawyer: Germany - Sports & Gaming

Leading individual - Information technology law

Recommended

"Dr Tobias Schelinski looks after our mandate centrally. He is an outstanding industry expert. Extremely focussed, we can always rely on receiving a concrete and implementable recommendation for action, even on complex and novel legal challenges."

"Tobias Schelinski has an excellent team and also always has excellent recommendations."

Tobias Schelinski "is an extremely practical and solution-oriented specialist for all IT topics"

Global Leader - Sports

"Tobias Schelinski's advice in the area of global framework license agreements for companies with complex matrix structures (all license and business models) is great."

Recommended for IT law “very well connected, pragmatic approach with respect to new legal challenges”.

One of the world’s leading Information Technology and Data Privacy and Protection lawyers

The "outstanding" Tobias Schelinski is "probably one of the best experts in the games industry".

Recommended for his expertise in gaming issues

Experience

Advising seller on sale of marmalade GmbH and Makaira GmbH to ECOMMERCE ONE

marmalade GmbH, one of Germany's leading e-commerce agencies, and Makaira GmbH, a provider of an e-commerce marketing suite for online retail, have been sold by marmalade Group GmbH to ECOMMERCE ONE Group.

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Dr. Jens Wolf
Dr. Wiebke Baars, LL.M.
Dr. Tobias Schelinski
Dr. Jens Wiesner, LL.M. (Chicago)
Sven Kahlert
Philipp Hoegl

Pflege.de on its sale to the Hartmann Gruppe

Comprehensive legal advice to the shareholders of web care LBJ GmbH, operator of the Hamburg service portal Pflege.de, the leading German online platform relating to home care and living in old age, on the sale of the company to the Hartmann Group, a producer of medical and care products.

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Dr. Tillmann Pfeifer
Dr. Tobias Schelinski
Dr. Marco Hartmann-Rüppel, Dipl.-Volkswirt
Dr. Daniel Werner (geb. Jarzembowski)

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