Wouter Seinen is an attorney in our IP/TMT practice group. He heads of the CMS Derks Star Busmann data privacy team, which assists national and international clients with respect to Personal Data Protection regulations and issues concerning ownership and protection of electronic data.
In 2008, Wouter was elected the ‘Gouden Stoofpeer’, an award for the most promising under 35 IT lawyer of the Dutch Bar, and is regarded among his peers as one of the leading young IT & IP lawyers in the Netherlands.
Wouter graduated in law in 1998 and has worked as a specialised IT & IP attorney ever since. He has been working for CMS Derks Star Busmann since 2007. Wouter has a particular interest in all internet related issues with respect to privacy, (copyright-) infringements and database rights, and is a keen negotiator and litigator, not only when commercial interests are at stake, but also when principle is involved.
In 2004 he successfully completed, with distinction, the Grotius/VIRA post-degree specialist programme in Computer Law.
Wouter Seinen was elected President of the Intellectual Property, Media & New Technologies Commission of AIJA (Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats) and is member of a number of other (inter)national professional associations. He was one of the chief editors of the report on Open Source Software published by the NvvIR (the Netherlands Association for IT and Law) in 2006, is regularly invited as (guest-) speaker and teaches in post-degree programmes on various subjects in the area of Intellectual Property and Information Technology. Wouter is also one of the chief editors of the IT-Law news site www.itenrecht.nl.