Biography: Internet & e-Commerce

Dr Katharina Scheja is a partner at Heymann & Partners. She is focused on outsourcing contracts and complex IT and TK projects: system development, maintenance, integration and migration agreements, licensing and distribution contracts. Dr Scheja is also a very experienced litigator in the field of IP (including patent infringement) and IT disputes; in this area she has also handled arbitration cases (ICC, DIS, WIPO).

Starting her career as inhouse counsel with Microsoft (Munich), she built up Microsoft's copyright enforcement program as of 1993 and continued this work as outside counsel until 2007. During this time, Dr Scheja supported the development of legal and marketing strategies in order to fight piracy and successfully handled a number of landmark cases. Before joining Heymann & Partners in 2007, Dr Scheja was a partner with Clifford Chance, Graf von Westphalen, Willkie Farr Gallagher and FPS Fritze Paule Seelig.

Dr Scheja is a member of the DGRI (German Association for Computer Law), GRUR (German Association on IP Law) and a member of LES.

Heymann & Partner was founded in April 2005 with the goal of building up a leading independent German tech-law firm. We advise our clients in complex transactions (M&A and Restructuring), IT and IP. Today, Heymann & Partners is recognised as a leading firm in its core areas.