Johanna Moesch (Mösch)

Biography

Johanna Moesch is an associate in the Firm's IPTech and Compliance & Investigations Practice Groups in Zurich. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, she worked as an associate and senior associate in a major Zurich law firm and, prior to that, as a law clerk in a Swiss district court. She was also a tutor and student research assistant at the University of Basel in the fields of public and private law. Johanna obtained a LLM degree from the Tsinghua University (Beijing). She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and has been a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) since January 2021.

Practice Focus

Johanna advises Swiss and international companies on all the legal aspects of IT, in particular, on data protection and telecommunications law, cybersecurity, and IT contracts. She has an additional focus on e-commerce and general contract law. Her practice covers for example advising companies on issues concerning domestic and cross-border data protection and technology law-related issues, as well as commercial law matters such as distribution, franchising, sponsoring and other agreements. She works for various industries, in particular, the technology, financial, healthcare, sports and consumer goods sectors.

Representative Legal Matters

Advising numerous globally operating and Swiss companies from various industries (such as financial institutions and pharmaceutical companies) on the implementation of the revised Swiss data protection act and on general questions concerning the GDPR and on international data transfers.
Advising globally operating and Swiss companies on cybersecurity issues and data breaches.
Advising globally operating and Swiss companies on all aspects of commercial law.
Advising globally operating and Swiss companies on questions around specific secrecy provisions (such as banking secrecy, professional secrecy, etc.).
Advising globally operating and Swiss companies on their website compliance requirements (including terms of use, imprints, privacy statements, use of cookies and similar technologies, price indications, unfair competition, consumer protection law, and contract law).
Advising Swiss federal bodies (including pension funds) on compliance with the revised Swiss data protection act.
Advising global and Swiss companies on all questions around telecommunications laws.
Advising globally operating companies during (internal) investigations on all data protection-related questions (including questions relating to secrecy, such as attorney-client secrecy).
Advising global operating and Swiss companies (including financial institutions) on questions around outsourcing to cloud service providers.
Acted for six months with additional subsequent part-time secondments as secondee for a large financial institution to advise on questions around the sharing of personal data, banking secrecy, the implementation of the revised Swiss data protection act and data protection law in general.

Professional Honors

Rising Star Data Protection, The Legal 500, 2021-2024

Professional Associations and Memberships

Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) (2021)
International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
International Bar Association
Zurich Bar Association - Member

Admissions

Switzerland (2010)

Education

Tsinghua University (LL.M.) (2014)
University of Basel (lic. iur.) (2007)

Languages

English
French
German

Author, "Die Rolle der Datenschutzberaterin / des Datenschutzberaters unter dem neuen Schweizer Datenschutzgesetz," iusNet Digitales Recht, March 2023
Author, "Switzerland: Entry into force of the revised FADP in September 2023 - what you need to know," Data Guidance, January 2023
Co-author (with Evelyn Schilter), "Rechtsgrundlage für die Offenlegung von Daten zur Rechnungslegung im Bereich der beruflichen Vorsorge," iusNet Digitales Recht, April, 2022
Co-author (with Evelyn Schilter), "Offenlegung von Daten zur Rechnungslegung," Schweizer Personalvorsorge, 10-21
Co-author (with Alessandro Celli), "Der räumliche Geltungsbereich – Revision DSG," iusNet Digitales Recht, May 26, 2021
Author, "Ist die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung auf mich als Schweizer Arbeitgeber anwendbar – und falls ja, was muss ich beachten?", Treuhand und Revision, Jahrbuch 2019, pp. 223-240, 2019