Chiara Gayk advises clients on IT, IP, media, and data law. A key focus of her practice is advising on IT and AI law, particularly in the automotive industry and in the negotiation of IT contracts. She has been a lawyer at orka since 2026. Prior to that, she worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as part of the IP, IT, and data law team. Among other responsibilities, she led a joint venture in the field of legal tech and AI.

Chiara Gayk studied law at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, specializing in international and European law, and spent an Erasmus year at the University of Hull (England). She completed her legal clerkship in the district of the Wuppertal Regional Court, with placements at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition in Brussels (focusing on competition law), in the public commercial law department of a major international law firm, and at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.