Manfred Balz

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Manfred Wilhelm Balz (born December 22, 1944 ) is a German lawyer and former board member of Deutsche Telekom AG.

Life

Manfred Balz studied law in Tübingen, Munich and St. Petersburg. From 1969 to 1970 he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. This was followed by research stays in Leningrad and Moscow as well as at Harvard Law School , where he obtained an LL.M. acquired. He began his professional career in 1974 at the Federal Ministry of Justice , where he worked on the European standardization of company law and on the reform of insolvency law. In 1977 he was from the University of Tübingen to Dr. iur. PhD. Further positions followed from 1990–1993 as the general counsel of the Treuhandanstalt and from 1993–1997 a partnership with the international law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, of which he headed their Berlin branch. In parallel to his activities, Manfred Balz was permanent chairman of the EU bankruptcy convention council group from 1989 to 1995. In this role he worked on Regulation (EC) No. 1346/2000 on insolvency proceedings . In 1997 he moved to Deutsche Telekom AG as chief legal counsel.

From October 22, 2008 to May 31, 2012, he was the Board Member for Data Protection, Legal Affairs and Compliance. The department was newly created at the suggestion of the Board of Management in order to anchor the issues of data protection and data security at the top management level. Since 2013 he has worked as Senior Counsel for the American law firm Mayer Brown in Frankfurt in the corporate department. He is a member of the American College of Bankruptcy, the Berlin Bar Association, honorary member of Phi Delta Phi and INSOL Europe.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The European. In: The European. Retrieved January 24, 2020 (American English). 
2. ↑ Dissertation: Property Order and Technology Policy: A Comparative Study on Soviet Patent and Technology Law .
3. ↑ Manfred Balz: Enlighteners with restrained ambition. Retrieved January 24, 2020 . 
4. ↑ PERSONS: Ex-Telekom board member Balz goes to the law firm Mayer Brown. Retrieved January 24, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Mayer Brown builds her corporate practice with Dr. Manfred Balz from | News | Mayer Brown. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .