Katerina Malanou

Katerina is highly active in this sector, supporting major internet businesses and others in protecting their reputations and assets – including intellectual property and rights – in this fast-evolving area of law. Her experience as a two-year secondee at Google has given her a detailed insight into issues facing internet platforms and online content providers – both hosts and originators – and of the best legal tools for protecting and advancing clients’ interests in the digital age.

Notable TMT & Intellectual Property cases

TMT

• We represented two major Greek banks in the joint venture negotiations related to payment cards systems. We also advised a Bank-owned subsidiary on a high-profile outsourcing transaction with a global payment processing company.
• We settled on behalf on an internet encyclopedia long-disputed takedown requests on the basis of defamation.
• We recovered the domain name segafredo.gr for its trademark owner
• We advised clients on cybercrime discovery requests and take down requests of allegedly defamatory material.

TMT Litigation

• For the eleventh consecutive year, we have responded to and defended before the Hellenic and the Courts a number of removals requests which were filed against our client, the leading USA search engine.
• The first case ever to be litigated in Greece for the issue of the legal age of consent under the GDPR that was filed against the leading USA search engine.
• We were retained to defend several complaints filed against the leading USA search engine for the association of personal data and images in the search engine with allegedly defamatory words or phrases relating to sexual orientation, profession and criminal convictions.

DPO Services

• We provided Data Protection Officer (DPO) services to the most prominent group of companies in the Greek health services sector, which includes maternity and gynecology clinics, children’s hospital, general hospital and IVF center.
• We provided GDPR consulting services to a leading brewery in Greece relating to data transfers, GPS use and access card use by employees, novel services and applications, the company’s website, digital contests, marketing events, IP licenses etc.
• We provided GDPR consulting services to an electronic payments company upon the entering into force of the GDPR with respect to the client’s policies, contracts, consent forms, data processing agreements etc.
• We reviewed and assessed a global FMCG group’s internal policies and platforms, marketing practices, digital contests, employment contracts, cooperation contracts under the GDPR rules.

Data Protection / Privacy / IP

• Advised Cardlink S.A. on the creation of an innovation hub. We are providing wide-ranging and proactive advice in response to the client’s needs.
• Advised Goodyear Tyres on commercial and contract law issues and other matters relating to data protection and employment law in Greece.
• We settled with the DPA of the Greek part of a major privacy breach incident in the entertainment sector that led to data leak for more than 8,000 Greek internet users.
• We reviewed and assessed the ideas submitted to the leading bank in Greece from an IP and privacy point perspective.
• Retained by a global electronics’ company to advise on levies under the copyright act on electronic devices and to submit relevant data to the Greek Copyright Organization.
• We have also provided counselling to ISP’s on the IP and privacy issues arising from their online novel services and represented them before the Hellenic DPA.