Marieke Merkle
Rechtsanwältin (Lawyer), Associated Partner
Marieke Merkle specialises in providing legal advice in the field of IT, data and AI law. Ms Merkle's expertise includes both the regulatory framework (in particular the AI Act and Data Act) and the drafting of contracts under civil law. Marieke Merkle also provides comprehensive advice on AI governance within companies. Another focus of her work is advising international clients on large IT projects such as IT outsourcing and cloud (transformation) projects.
Distinctions
- Class of 2024 of the American-German Young Leaders Conference of the American Counsel on Germany (Atlantik-Brücke e.V.)
Young Leaders - Top Lawyer 2026 in IT Law
FAZ - Leading Lawyers in Data Protection Law and IT Law 2025, 2024
Wirtschaftswoche - Ones to Watch in Germany; Information Technology Law 2025, 2026
Best Lawyers - Up & Coming TMT: 2026 („Marieke Merkle is a rising star in Germany. She's brilliant because she can really synthesise content and make it clear for everyone.“ Client) ranked both for TMT: Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence
Chambers Germany - Next Generation Partner Artificial Intelligence, 2026 („Outstanding performance by Marieke Merkle and Pascal Schumacher and their team“, Client)
Legal 500 - Top-Lawyers IT-Law 2024
honoured by Wirtschaftswoche - Business Insider - "We are more or less all nerds":
At 32, Marieke Merkle became a partner at the major law firm Noerr
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Career
Law studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and University of Salamanca
Research asisstant at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
With Noerr since 2019
Admitted to the Munich Chamber of Lawyers
Marieke Merkle is a lecturer in IT-law at the LMU Munich.
Board Member of the German Society for Law and Computer Science (DGRI)
Memberships
Publications
- Co-Publisher of the Handbook Artificial Intelligence (Publishing House: Beck) together with Markus Kaulartz (Partner at CMS Hasche Sigle) (to be published in June 2026)
- Wiebe / Imhof / Kreutz, chapter on the Data Act (together with Dr. Cathrin Wentzel) (to be published in July 2026)
- Author of a chapter regarding the obligations of cloud providers under the EU Data Act (Art. 23 et seq. Data Act) within “Steinrötter / Czychowski /Lettl” (Data Act Handbook)
- Author of a chapter regarding the transparency obligations under the EU AI Act (Art. 50 EU AI Act) in “Bomhard / Pieper / Wende” (AI Act Handbook)
- Author of a chapter regarding the obligations of manufacturers of IoT products under the EU Data Act (Arts. 3 and 4 EU Data Act), in Paschke/Schumacher (together with Henrike von dem Berge)
- The Use of AI in Vehicles, KIR 2025, 300 (together with Dr. Steffen Bauer (Mercedes) and Felix Sedlmaier (Noerr)
- Data Act in Practice: Successful Compliance Requires Strategic Approaches, GRUR 2024, 1753
- Transparency under the AI Regulation - from black box to open book?, RDi 2024, 414
- New rules for artificial intelligence, in: Börstenzeitung from 02 February 2023
- Outbound-Compliance: Active Participation in Open Source Projects, MMR 2022, 251
- The Draft of the Data Act, Law Digital RDi 2022, 168 (with Dr. David Bomhard)
- Regulation of Artificial Intelligence: The EU Commission’s proposal of an AI Act, EuCML 2021, 257 (with Dr. David Bomhard)
- European AI Regulation: The current Commission draft and practical implications, Recht Digital RDI 2021, 276-283 (with Dr. David Bomhard)
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