Tobias Fuchs
Dr. Tobias Fuchs
Guest scientist @ FAU
- Email: tobias.fuchs@fau.de
Information
Dr. Tobias Fuchs has been a partner at WTS Group AG since 2023 and,
as Managing Director of WTS Legal Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH,
heads the Legal, Risk & Compliance Services division.
About Me
Dr. Fuchs has more than 25 years of experience in providing commercial law advice (including litigation) to national and international corporations, medium-sized and owner-managed companies, financial investors and start-ups as well as public corporations with a focus on digital transformation (in particular information technology law, cloud, industry 4.0, big data and data protection as well as artificial intelligence), corporate law and technology transactions, restructuring and outsourcing, risk and compliance advice, intellectual property management and licensing systems, consumer protection and competition law.
Before joining WTS, Dr Fuchs worked for many years as a senior partner at Deloitte in Munich (2017-2023) and KPMG in Munich (2010-2017) and previously as a lawyer for one of the leading U.S. commercial law firms Latham&Watkins LLP in Frankfurt (2002-2009) and one of the leading German law firms Wessing & Berenberg-Gossler (now TaylorWessing) (1999-2002). He is fluent in German, English and Spanish.
He has been a Guest Researcher at the ESCS Chair at FAU since 2024.
Before joining WTS, Dr Fuchs worked for many years as a senior partner at Deloitte in Munich (2017-2023) and KPMG in Munich (2010-2017) and previously as a lawyer for one of the leading U.S. commercial law firms Latham&Watkins LLP in Frankfurt (2002-2009) and one of the leading German law firms Wessing & Berenberg-Gossler (now TaylorWessing) (1999-2002). He is fluent in German, English and Spanish.
He has been a Guest Researcher at the ESCS Chair at FAU since 2024.
Academic CV
- Studies of law at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Nürnberg and the University of Bayreuth.
- PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich on the subject of Intellectual Property in Latin America
- Scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property in Munich
Relevant consulting experience
- Consulting for international groups and family-run companies
- in projects for digital transformation as well as reorganisations and restructurings
- in projects for the acquisition or sale of companies, parts of companies or assets (technology transfer) as well as in the organisation of joint ventures and cooperations, including financing
- in projects involving the use of technology to ensure compliance requirements or to reduce costs through outsourcing
- in compliance and regulatory projects
- Advising start-ups in the deep tech environment
- Chairman of the Advisory Board of KI Park e.V. and Managing Director complAIzer GmbH
Personal Information
- Date and place of birth: 22 March 1970 in Rosenheim
- Citizenship: German
- Family status: Married