Wednesday, 13. June 2007
CMS Hasche Sigle: Secure contract management for IT-outsourcing projects in Brainloop Secure Dataroom

Munich, Germany - June 13, 2007 CMS Hasche Sigle, a leading national and international law firm with headquarters in Germany, has chosen the Brainloop Dataroom for its secure document management requirements. The virtual Dataroom from Brainloop AG is a web-based software solution that allows CMS Hasche Sigle and its associates, lawyers, technicians, managers and consultants to share information easily and securely. CMS Hasche Sigle professionals working in different countries, different time zones, and behind different firewalls can share information online with the same level of security as if they were all working in the same office and behind the same firewall. The Dataroom provides each authorized user with immediate access to the latest version of the document, helping the team members work more accurately and more effectively.

FThe confidentiality of the documents within the Dataroom is assured both through encrypted data transfer as well as through strong user authentication.  The documents are encrypted by 128-bit encryption as they are uploaded and downloaded and protected by 256-bit encryption as they reside in the Dataroom.  Users who request access to the Dataroom are authenticated through a two-factor process.  First, each user has a unique password, and second, each user can have either a chipcard or the Dataroom can send a PIN number to that user's mobile phone.  That PIN number is for one-time use only.

The Dataroom supports different groups of authorized users.  Lawyers might share one set of documents while engineers share a different set of documents.  Some managers might have access to all the documents.  The rules by which documents are shared are flexible and the Dataroom can be configured to accommodate different company's requirements.  However, the technicians who manage and administer the Dataroom have access to none of the documents.

Michael Ranft, IT-Director from CMS Hasche Sigle, explains "In addition to the regular exchange of confidential documents with our lawyers, consultants, technicians and managers, the web-based Brainloop Secure Dataroom is also extremely useful in structuring our diverse IT-outsourcing projects. The Dataroom guarantees that we have the secure, efficient and integrated communication platform we need to exchange information among our different parties."

CMS Hasche Sigle uses the Brainloop Dataroom not only to provide secure and confidential communication, but also to record a complete audit trail of the information flow for all the documents in the Dataroom. After a negotiation or a project is completed, the Dataroom content, including the audit trail, is archived in a CD-ROM. Future security requirements, including the watermarking of a document or a read-only mode, are also supported by Brainloop Dataroom.

CMS Hasche Sigle has chosen the ASP version of The Secure Dataroom.  The server is hosted by a third party in a specially secured data center and CMS Hasche Sigle uses the Dataroom as a service.  The Secure Dataroom is also available as a software solution and some companies have preferred to purchase the software and host the Dataroom on their own servers.

About CMS Hasche Sigle
CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms and it has more than 480 lawyers. CMS Hasche Sigle covers the entire area of business law and advises well-known German and in-ternational companies that do business in a wide variety of industries. It has offices in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Köln, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Dresden as well as in Brussels, Belgrade, Moscow and Shanghai.
CMS Hasche Sigle is a collaboration of lawyers and tax advisors. The list of partners can be found at www.cms-hs.com.

CMS Hasche Sigle is a member of CMS, the alliance of leading independent European law firms providing clients with a full range of legal and tax services. CMS has more than 595 partners and 4200 employees including 2000 lawyers and tax advisors in 48 cities.  In addition to CMS Hasche Sigle, other CMS members include CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni (Italy), CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo (Spain), CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre (France), CMS Cameron McKenna LLP (Great Britain), CMS DeBacker (Belgium), CMS Derks Star Busmann (Holland), CMS von Erlach Henrici (Switzerland) and CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria). CMS has 58 offices worldwide in 25 countries.

More information about CMS Hasche Sigle can be found at www.cms-hs.com and through the CMS alliance at www.cmslegal.com.

 

Media Contact CMS Hasche Sigle

Elmar Salinger
Presse- und Öffentlichkeit
CMS Hasche Sigle
Lennéstraße 7
10785 Berlin, Germany
Phone no.: +49-30-203601208
E-Mail: elmar.salinger(at)cms-hs.com
Internet: www.cms-hs.com

About Brainloop AG
Brainloop AG, headquartered in Munich, is the leading provider of infrastructure and solutions for managing confidential documents. Brainloop's customers achieve important risk-management and compliance objectives by deploying Brainloop Secure Dataroom for boardroom communications, financial reporting, strategic projects and all situations where confidential documents need to be available to authorized users inside and outside the firewall yet protected from unauthorized access. Brainloop Secure Boardroom is a version of Brainloop Secure Dataroom that is especially designed for the communication between executive and supervisory board members.

Possible application scenarios are the secure storage, comprehensive editing and distribution of confidential documents including contracts, quarterly reports, personnel and project documents. Examples of application areas are contract negotiations, project executions, generation of quarterly reports and the communication between executive and supervisory boards.

Brainloop's customers include BMW AG, Deutsche Telekom, ThyssenKrupp, Galileo Industries, Rhön Klinikum AG, Eurocopter, NokiaSiemens Networks, Buchanan Capital Group and Landesbank Berlin, as well as leading legal and financial services firms that use Brainloop Dataroom as an online service.  Partners include Microsoft and T-Systems International. Brainloop has offices in Boston, MA and Munich, Germany.

 

Media Contact Brainloop AG

Ulrike Dreischer-Wanner
Public Relations
Brainloop AG
Franziskanerstr. 14           
81669 Munich, Germany           
Phone no.: +49-89-4444699-0   
Fax: +49-89-4444699-99   
E-Mail: ulrike(at)brainloop.com    
Internet: www.brainloop.com

 

06/13/2007 Hasche Sigle

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