Tim Wybitul

Tim Wybitul is a leading EU data, privacy, cyber, and technology lawyer and the Global Vice Chair of the firm’s Privacy & Cyber Practice.

Tim advises global technology companies on the EU’s digital rulebook, including the GDPR, the AI Act, the Data Act, and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and on the litigation, enforcement, and regulator-facing strategy these regimes demand. He is the go-to specialist for challenging GDPR questions, pairing hands-on digital regulation work with genuine top-tier GDPR litigation depth. He regularly represents clients in high-stakes data litigation and before EU regulators, including before the European Court of Justice (CJEU) and the highest national courts in the EU and in other data-related disputes.

His work includes:

• Fine defense: Defense against fines for alleged violations of the EU Digital Acts, including before the CJEU
• Regulator communication: Communication and negotiations with the EU authorities, including settlements
• Data advice and litigation: Advice on the application and implementation of the GDPR, the EU AI Act, and other EU Digital Acts, including court litigation
• Reconciling conflicting digital-law regimes: Advising on reconciling conflicting requirements of the EU Digital Acts, including data minimization and security obligations under the GDPR versus data-sharing obligations under the DMA and the Data Act
• Cybersecurity: Response to cybersecurity incidents, whether global or limited to individual jurisdictions

Tim’s work is recognized in the leading legal directories. He is listed in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame, ranked Band 1 for Data Protection in Chambers Germany 2026, and named a Legal All Star by WirtschaftsWoche.  

He publishes regularly on data law in leading legal publications, and his articles are cited by the CJEU, the German Federal Supreme Court, the Federal Administrative and Labor Courts, and courts of appeal. He lectures on data protection at Goethe University in Frankfurt and has provided expert testimony to the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) on German data protection law.  

Tim is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E), serves as Chair of Latham’s Data Privacy Committee, and is an EU lawyer registered with both the Frankfurt and Brussels bars.