Who we advise
The firm advises two groups of clients. First, providers established outside the EU — platforms, marketplaces, hosting providers and other intermediary services — that offer services to recipients in the Union and therefore fall within the territorial scope of the DSA (Art. 2(1), Art. 3(d), (e) DSA). Second, EU-based providers that must determine which layer of the DSA's tiered obligation structure applies to their service and how to implement it in product, process and documentation.
Typical mandates include social and community platforms, online marketplaces, SaaS products with hosting functionality, app distribution services, and infrastructure providers assessing whether they qualify as mere conduit, caching or hosting services.
Advisory fields
Duty mapping by service category
The DSA assigns obligations cumulatively by service category (Chapter III, Art. 11 et seq.): duties for all intermediary services, additional duties for hosting services, further duties for online platforms and marketplaces. We determine which category a service falls into and which concrete obligations follow from that classification.
Transparency, notice-and-action, statements of reasons
Implementation of notice-and-action mechanisms (Art. 16 DSA), statements of reasons for content moderation decisions (Art. 17 DSA), internal complaint-handling systems (Art. 20 DSA) and transparency reporting (Art. 15, 24 DSA) — legally reviewed and workable in day-to-day operations.
VLOP delineation
Assessment of whether a service approaches the threshold for designation as a very large online platform or search engine (Art. 33 DSA: 45 million average monthly active recipients in the Union), the methodology for counting active recipients, and the consequences of a designation decision.
Authority correspondence
Communication with Digital Services Coordinators and other competent authorities — in Germany the Bundesnetzagentur as Digital Services Coordinator — including responses to orders to act against illegal content or to provide information (Art. 9, 10 DSA).
Proceedings and enforcement defense
Representation and defense in supervisory and enforcement proceedings under the DSA and the German Digital Services Act (DDG): responses to information requests, submissions in administrative proceedings, and legal remedies against supervisory measures.
DSA workshops
Structured in-house workshops that take legal, product and trust-and-safety teams through the DSA obligations relevant to their service. Details: DSA workshops.
How we work
DSA counsel is provided under a separate engagement letter with a defined scope. For recurring, well-defined tasks the firm offers fixed-fee packages; the current package structure is set out on the fees page. Working languages are English and German. Where a matter touches neighboring regimes — GDPR, AI Act, P2B Regulation — the interfaces are named and addressed within the same engagement or scoped separately.
Further reading
Legal representative function under Art. 13 DSA
Regingada UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Providers without an establishment in the Union must designate a legal representative in a Member State (Art. 13 DSA). The firm advises on the scope and consequences of that obligation. The named representative function itself is performed, if desired, by Regingada UG (haftungsbeschränkt) — a legally independent company of the firm's owner.
Named representative function: Regingada UG (haftungsbeschränkt) — separate service under a separate contract, no legal advice. Legal counsel is provided exclusively by Kanzlei Theo Funk under its own engagement.
Your attorney
Rechtsanwalt Theo Funk is admitted to the German bar and a member of the Bar Association of Bamberg (Rechtsanwaltskammer Bamberg, a constituent chamber of the German Federal Bar / BRAK); admission is publicly verifiable in the official German attorney register. His practice focuses on EU digital regulation — the Digital Services Act, the AI Act and the German Digital Services Act (DDG). Profile: Attorney Theo Funk.
Discuss your DSA matter
Describe your service and the questions you face — we will respond with an assessment of scope and a proposal for the engagement.