Julia Elisabeth Hoffmann Email & Phone Number

Redwood City, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

• Co-founded a significant community of Bay Area women who work in, or are interested in, the information security and data privacy industries.
• Organize networking events, panels, and seminars; secure event sponsorships; and manage social media and marketing outreach efforts.
• Grew LinkedIn Group membership in the hundreds. Event attendance consistently exceeds 100+ women.

San Francisco, California, US

• Enabled in-house clients in virtually all departments to create the best yet risk-aligned online products for the United States’ “unicorn” services marketplace platform, working cross-functionally from consumer side.
• Saw to success of new “Instant Book” scheduling on desktop, mobile web, and native applications.
• Legally safeguarded statistically significantly improvements for new users across all interfaces.
• Implemented as sole lawyer in triumvirate the California Consumer Privacy Act by December, 20th, 2019, followed up by adjustments throughout early 2020.
• Ran legal point on creating from scratch partnerships with Google, Inc. and Nextdoor, Inc.

United States, US

• General: Representing clients in cyberlaw matters in a range of industries including those involving mobile applications (from casual gaming to car sharing platforms), financial institutions (banks, payment service.
• Privacy - ad-hoc, by design/by default: Counseling on online products throughout their lifecycle in approaches tailored to the business, focused or with a wider view of integrating privacy decisioning.
• Startup Transactions: Leading the associate side in startup transactional matters involving policies (BYOD, privacy), contractual frameworks with customers (MSA, SOW) and consumers (EULA) with a focus on IP rights and.
• EU: Advising on European Union legal issues in own and colleagues' matters, in particular key items for the General Data Protection Regulation from May 2018.
• US: Advising on United States privacy and regulatory issues, particularly the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and corresponding or stronger state laws.

Walnut Creek, California, US

• Product, consumer-side: Led improvements of website and app regarding legal compliance. Wrote ToU, drafted disclaimers, directly guiding Product team. Co-created new RentPayment app with teams from scratch, integrating.
• Product, client-side: Co-created new online small and medium business owners’ multi-step online application (onboarding) for electronic payment collection, improving UX and numbers.
• Platform, full-stack payment: Provided guidance on EFTA - "Reg E"​, BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, state surcharge laws. Directed key company responses to card network and financial service structure audits (PCI, SOC 1 Type 2).
• Payments, money transmission: Registered YapStone as Money Services Business (MSB) with FinCEN. Reviewed money transmission licensing (MTL) material on US and EU level (Payment Institution); created comprehensive fund.
• Privacy and Cyberlaw: Instructed teams on several Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) issues. Developed data- sharing nationally / internationally. Mapped, managed, & implemented steps for the Privacy Shield US-EUleading.
• Corporate Technology: Drafted key parts of Business Plan for company on US / EU level, creating legal and regulatory depictions of different brands, technological underpinnings, and financial account structures.

Frankfurt On Main, HE, DE

• Merger Control: Drafted, oversaw, and filed merger control notifications for tech and other clients with theGerman Federal Cartel Office and collaborated on such filings with the EU Commission.
• Regulatory: Drafted defense of nationwide business cartel in low-margin industry after careful review of judicial and legislative situation, resulting in significantly lowered fine from antitrust authorities. Vetted.
• Multi-jurisdictional filing: Conducted analyses, and coordinated international merger control filings in the EU, the US, Russia, and China for large-scale business transactions including technology (medical device).
• Compliance Programs: Drafted, supervised, and communicated complex 4-year antitrust compliance program in the appliances industry. Rolled out localized audits across multiple markets. Identified and remediated German.
• Dawn Raids: Counselled major energy company in antitrust mock and live "dawn raids."​ Monitored for client European Commission official raids and screened evidence, avoiding significant financial losses for the client.

• Fully trained within the German legal education system and having passed the Bar, Freelancer
• Wrote memoranda on commercial property and tenancy, particularly for homeowners' associations / condominium corporations.
• Researched and briefed on issues of administrative law in the context of full-service counsel for real estate client.
• In arbitration proceedings provided extempore simultaneous interpretation (German-English).

• Legal Stages
• Following 4 years of academic studies at university in Germany
• 2 years of practical legal education in stages of Civil, Criminal, and Administrative Law
• Finalized by the 2nd State / Bar Exam

Master Of Laws (Ll.M.), Law

First State Exam (Erstes Staatsexamen), Law

Diploma Of Legal Studies, Law