Piet Bubenzer, partner, specialist lawyer for copyright and media law, works as a consultant and litigator in copyright and media law, press law, licensing law (including patents and trademarks), digitization processes and unfair competition law. As the former general counsel of a media company, he has special knowledge in the field of entertainment law.

• Advice and litigation on the protection of secrets and know-how;
• M&A transactions involving IP/IT with advice on liability, risk, transferability and valuation in connection with IP/IT assets;
• Advising and representing companies in the media and entertainment industry (music, film/television, press/print, photo, advertising, online/mobile, sports, etc.) on issues relating to copyright and media law as well as publishing, press and personality rights;
• Advice on legal and commercial aspects of content licensing for authors, artists, manufacturers/producers, publishers and collecting societies for multimedia and online/mobile applications and IP-TV as well as liability issues;

• Representation of Heraeus Group companies in litigation concerning the manufacture and distribution of medical devices as well as in litigation concerning the protection of trade secrets and know-how and antitrust law;
• Representation of Deezer in court proceedings against Gesellschaft zur Wahrnehmung von Veranstalterrechten (GWVR);
• Advising and representing the elite cycling team HTC-Highroad, which emerged from the T-Mobile team, on sponsorship, the right to make statements, contract law and various sports law issues;
• as IP specialist involved in various M&A projects and transactions, e.g. on the acquisition of music rights (master and/or publishing) in various cases (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), on the acquisition of an online music service (2021), conducting the vendor due diligence of a technology company in the course of refinancing (2020/2021), acquisition of an online music service (2020), on the acquisition of a producer of sound recordings (2020), on the acquisition of the vacation home operator business of Wolters Reisen GmbH by Oyo Vacation Homes (OVH) from e-domizil GmbH (e-hoi Group) (2020), on the acquisition of Deutsche Telefon Standard AG by NFON AG (2019), on the sale of an online fashion & lifestyle magazine (2019), on the acquisition of the vacation home operator business of Wolters Reisen GmbH by Oyo Vacation Homes (OVH) from e-domizil GmbH (e-hoi Group) (2020). lifestyle magazine (2019), on the acquisition of a printing company (2017/2018), on the acquisition of the music service Ampya by Deezer/Odyssey Music Group from Pro7/Sat1 (2014), on the acquisition of an online music service (2015), on the acquisition of a biogas power plant by the Koehler Group (2013), on the sale of Napster by Best Buy Inc. to Rhapsody International (2012/2013), as due diligence counsel in the acquisition of EMI Music by Terra Firma (2008 and 2009), on the joint venture of the French media group Banijay in the German Brainpool Group (2009), the acquisition of a private equity stake in a leading computer game manufacturer (2008), on the merger Sony Music/BMG (2004)
• Co-counsel in arbitration proceedings (Switzerland) on copyright contracts (since 2016);

• “Global Licensing in the Music Industry – Structures and current problems of cross-border licensing of musical copyrights and ancillary copyrights” Lecture at the 4th Darmstadt Information Law Day (2008);
• “After Music-on-Demand now Video-on-Demand” lecture at the 3rd Darmstädter Informationsrechtstag (2007);
• “Online Exploitation of Music: Copyright Principles and Contractual Practice”, together with Dr. Stefan Ventroni in: “www.musikverkaufen.de – Die digitate Musikwirtschaft”;
• “Urheberrecht in der Insolvenz” together with Dr. jur. Westrick in Festschrift für Paul W. Hertin, Beck 2000.
• “Copyright Law in Europe and Germany & EC-Enforcement Directive” – Presentation at the International Symposium on IP & IT Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing (2009);

• Joined the legal department of Sony Music Entertainment Germany (1998 – 2001);
• Admitted to the bar in 1996 and subsequently worked as a lawyer in copyright and media law in Bochum (1996 – 1998);
• Trainee lawyer with stations in Berlin and Frankfurt (second state examination, 1996);
• Ruhr University Bochum (First State Examination, 1994).