Marc Schuba is a lawyer in Berlin with more than eleven years of experience in IP, IT and data protection law and a strong focus on enterprise SaaS. He has always combined legal practice with software development: since 2012 he has built APIs and front-ends in React and Next.js, as well as applications in C#, TypeScript and Python.
He spent seven years as an attorney at White & Case, in Frankfurt from 2014 to 2019 and in Berlin in 2020. There he advised on digital transformation projects covering cloud migration, blockchain, regulated outsourcing, autonomous driving and AI, and led legal tech projects for GDPR compliance. In Berlin he co-developed a cross-border legal tech project with teams in Berlin, New York and Tampa that automated litigation workflows for a major automotive client. As a law clerk, he had already worked in the firm’s Silicon Valley office in Palo Alto in 2013.
From 2021 he was Legal Counsel (Syndikusrechtsanwalt) at Mercedes-Benz Group AG. He negotiated large multinational IT outsourcing agreements and SaaS agreements with strategic suppliers, advised on the IP and IT aspects of the Daimler Truck spin-off, and supported the sanctions-compliant separation of IT operations from the group’s Russian subsidiaries. Alongside that, he led a legal hacking team that built AI-powered applications for the legal department on Microsoft Power Platform and Copilot. In 2022 he also co-founded Zipse | Ludwig, where he was a partner.
At Compound Law he brings both sides together. He knows from a major law firm and a global group how large companies buy software, outsource IT and negotiate contracts, and he understands the technology well enough to review agreements on SaaS, open source and AI systems on the substance, not only on the law. He works in German and English.
Expertise
- IP and IT law
- SaaS and IT contracts, IT outsourcing
- Software and open-source licensing
- Data protection law (GDPR)
- AI law and the EU AI Act