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David Vasella

David Vasella

Partner
Dr. iur., Attorney at Law

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Location

Zurich

Contact

Direct phone: +41 58 658 52 87
david.vasella@walderwyss.com

Curriculum Vitae

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Areas of activity: Data & Technology Healthcare & Life Sciences Commercial Contracts Intellectual Property

David Vasella is a partner on the Information Technology, Intellectual Property and Competition team. He advises and represents Swiss and international companies in all industries and at all stages of growth on questions concerning data and technology law. He specialises in data use, negotiating data-related contracts, data security issues, cloud projects and IT contracts and provides support in setting up platform models and data protection compliance in accordance with GDPR and Swiss law (including leading or supporting implementation projects and data protection audits). He regularly gives talks and writes publications on his areas of expertise, for example on datenrecht.ch, a Swiss platform on data law.

After graduating from the University of Fribourg in 2002 with a degree in law, David Vasella was admitted to the Zurich bar in 2004 and went on to receive his doctorate from the University of Zurich in 2011, for which he was awarded the highest distinction as well as the Prof. Walther Hug prize and the Issekutz prize. David Vasella is the founder and editor of datenrecht.ch, an online platform for data law. He is a certified information privacy professional and manager (CIPP/E, CIPM), Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP) and AI Governance Professional (AIGP).

David Vasella is listed in international rankings as a leading expert in data and technology (Chambers: “He is absolutely stellar when it comes to data protection”; Who’s Who Legal: “revered as the ‘go-to person for data protection’, with a wealth of experience in compliance matters”; Legal500: “committed and pragmatic” and an “outstanding lawyer with excellent analytical skills, a wealth of legal expertise, high client-focus. David is responsive, pragmatic and fully committed to serve his clients. Besides, he is a very likeable chap”).

Basler Kommentar zum Datenschutzgesetz und Öffentlichkeitsgesetz: Kommentierung von Art. 21 DSG

| by Simon Henseler and David Vasella | in: Gabor Blechta, David Vasella (Editor[s]) | "Datenschutzgesetz /Öffentlichkeitsgesetz" | 4a edizione

Doing Business in Switzerland – A Practical Guide

 | by Ramona Wyss, Andrea Haefeli, Gion Giger, David Vasella, Davide Cerutti, Marco Galli, Roger Staub, Manuel Bigler, Reto Jacobs, Monique Sturny, Thomas P. Müller, Nadja D. Leuthardt, Adriano Antonietti, Valentine Schnyder, Stefan Knobloch, Dimitrios Berger, Dominik Hohler, Letizia Schlegel, Stéphanie Oneyser, Urs P. Gnos, Dario Galli, Michael Kündig, Markus Vischer, Urs Schenker, Christian A. Schmid, Patrick W. Vogel, Alexander Sorton, Samuel Lieberherr, Daniel Dedeyan, Nico Bernhard, Theodor Härtsch, Tervel Stoyanov, Lukas Wyss, Markus Pfenninger, Valentin Wiesner, Rafal Szala, Thiemo Sturny, Roger Ammann, Hubertus Hillerström, Ken Savioz, Simone Wetzstein, Valentina Eichin, Irène Suter-Sieber, Olivier Sigg, Laura Luongo, Francis Nordmann, André Kuhn, Davide Jermini, Christian Eichenberger, Matthieu Seydoux, Thomas Meister, Janine Corti, Robert Desax, Fabienne Limacher, Dieter Hofmann, Rodolphe Gautier, Roxane Allot, Micha Bühler, Michael Feit, Maurice Courvoisier, Oliver M. Kunz and Pascale Köster | Editor[s]: Urs P. Gnos, Theodor Härtsch | ed.: 2nd edition

Cybersecurity 2023: Chapter Switzerland

 | by Jürg Schneider, David Vasella and Hugh Reeves | London | "Chambers Global Practice Guide"

AI, Machine Learning & Big Data 2022

 | by David Vasella, Jürg Schneider and Anne-Sophie Morand | in: "Global Legal Insights" | Fourth Edition | London | pp. 256-266

SWITZERLAND: An Introduction to TMT 2022

| by Lena Götzinger, Jürg Schneider and David Vasella | in: "Chambers Global Practice Guides" | Zürich

Privacy & Cybersecurity 2021 - Chapter Switzerland

 | by Jürg Schneider, David Vasella and Hugh Reeves | in: Edward Costelloe (Editor[s]) | "Lexology GTDT: Market Intelligence" | London | pp. 73-85

Data portability and its implementation

| by Lena Götzinger and David Vasella | in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Finanzmarktrecht (SZW) 1/2021 | pp. 40-51

Cybersecurity Switzerland

 | by Jürg Schneider, David Vasella and Hugh Reeves | in: "Chambers Global Practice Guides"

Is the revised Swiss Data Protection Act just a copy of the GDPR? copy

| by David Vasella and David Rosenthal [co-author] | in: "Revision of the Swiss Federal Data Protection Act"

Commentary on Art. 6 IPLA (Entering appearance)

| by David Vasella and Oliver M. Kunz [co-author] | in: Honsell/Vogt/Schnyder/Berti (Editor[s]) | "Basler Kommentar zum Schweizerischen Internationalen Privatrecht" | 4 | Basel

Objections within data protection law

| by David Vasella | in: digma 4 | pp. 174 ff.
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Recognitions


Chambers Contributer Cybersecurity 2024
Chambers Data Protection & Privacy 2024
Best Lawyers 2024 - David Vasella
Chambers Europe 2023
Who's Who Legal_Recognised
Legal 500 Leading Individual 2023
Chambers Contributor Cybersecurity 2022
Lawyer of the Year DVS

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