Alexander Duisberg is a partner of Bird & Bird and leads the German IT Commercial and Outsourcing practice. He is Joint Head of the Global IT Sector Group and of the firm's International Commercial Practice Group.

Alexander's expertise and practical experience cover the full range of contentious and non-contentious matters of IT-law (licensing, professional services, distribution, online commerce, cloud computing, open source, data protection and data security law) including major projects, complex technology transfer agreements, managed services and outsourcing arrangements of all kind, as well as assisting to technology-related mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. His client base comprises IT suppliers and IT users as well as providers and customers to outsourcing services in numerous industrial sectors. Alexander is an appointed and practicing panelist to the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre. Further, he is a frequent speaker and contributes regularly to publications on IT related topics.

Alexander Duisberg was admitted to the German Bar in 1995 and joined the Munich office of Bird & Bird at its opening in October 2003. From 1997 until September 2003 he worked for the IT and corporate practice of a large international law firm. Alexander Duisberg studied law at the University of Bonn from 1984 to 1989 and obtained a doctorate in law from the University of Bonn in 1995 with a dissertation on European competition law. Alexander speaks German, English, Italian, Spanish and French.