We help leadership teams turn technology,
regulation, and cross-border complexity from risk into advantage. For 21 years
we’ve worked side-by-side with clients and watched technology reshape their
entire markets. Hategan Digital is our next step to the frontier: we operate at
the intersection of business, law, and technology.
We lead with ethics and authenticity, and
we tie them to outcomes.
We structure AI governance, data rights,
platform terms, and cross-border rollout for your business, we protect
consumers, give employees clear guardrails, give investors and partners
reliable assurance, and give regulators the evidence they expect – all this
with the vision of creating a lasting impact for all stakeholders.
We work to restore trust in the legal
profession by replacing jargon with plain language and memos with accountable
delivery. We align innovation with regulation, so compliance becomes a
competitive advantage.
Finally, we support one another to
grow—inside our team and alongside yours—so improvement becomes continuous.
We’re your trusted partner. We speak the
language of business, deliver on time, and stay with you through the entire
digital and technological transformation—so you can move faster, stay
compliant, and compete with confidence.
Hațegan Atorneys is a member of Global LegalTech Hub - an initiative that brings together different operators (professionals, startups, companies, institutions and the academic world) to write the future of a new legal industry leveraged by technological innovation. The GLH aims to foster innovation, collaboration, and knowledge sharing within the legal technology ecosystem. It provides a space for entrepreneurs and LegalTech companies to showcase their products, connect with potential clients and investors, and access resources and support for their ventures.
by Ioana Hategan & Ioana Chiper Zah, 08.10.2025
Once upon a time, a “computer” was a person, someone paid to do math and arithmetic. Today, software does exponentially more, automating and simplifying processes across every industry. Artificial intelligence sits at the center of that shift. At its core, AI is any task a computer performs that shows human-like or better intelligence. The definition isn’t static; as capabilities improve, the line keeps moving.
That power can be unsettling. Yet AI doesn’t have motives or emotions, and it doesn’t “decide” to do things it wasn’t designed to do. AI is designed by people for people. We shouldn’t assume that because an AI can beat a grandmaster at chess, it can also deliver a compelling closing argument in court. Competence in one domain doesn’t translate into judgment, ethics, or advocacy. We’re not about to live the plot of Ex Machina.
Restoring trust in the legal profession has long been Hategan’s mission. We now extend it to technology, because clients must be compliant and competitive while they innovate. We tie ethics and authenticity to legal results, creating lasting impact for customers, investors, and employees alike.
Lawyers excel at spotting risk and preserving precedent; that’s our superpower. But strength can turn into blanket resistance when technology moves fast. Meanwhile, tech is built by teams. IT professionals create; lawyers must co-design the guardrails. Saying “I don’t trust AI” is not a strategy. Making AI trustworthy is our job, through contracts, policies, and verification.
Technology in business isn’t a monolith. It’s the use of tools, systems, and innovative digital solutions to improve efficiency, streamline operations, and enhance customer engagement. Some companies are tech businesses—their products are technology (software platforms, digital media). Others are tech-enabled businesses—they use technology to elevate a fundamentally non-tech model (manufacturing, retail, professional services).
The distinction matters: legal, operational, and strategic implications differ, but both rely on trustworthy systems.
The impact technology has on businesses is huge and we, the legal professionals, must take action, as follows:
The pattern is consistent: value appears where technology meets governance.
Great products don’t become compliant at the end—they’re designed that way from the start. That’s why we sit with your product team early and turn legal must-haves into clear product specs: how long data is kept, what users are told and when, how consent works, and where a human reviewer steps in. For AI features, we set the ground rules before launch: what risks are acceptable, what tests the model must pass, how results are documented from data sources to evaluation reports, and who signs off. Nothing ships without that trail of evidence.
Protection doesn’t stop at the feature list. Your contracts have to match reality and actually protect you: service levels you can measure, liability caps that reflect AI-specific risks, clear ownership of models and data, indemnities, audit rights, and clean exit terms. In parallel, we build a data strategy that is legal and safe—what you collect, how you share it (including across borders), privacy-by-design defaults, security controls, and incident playbooks that work on a bad day.
Regulation moves fast, so we translate new privacy, consumer, cybersecurity, and AI rules into simple checklists and evidence logs your teams can follow. Then we make it operational: practical policies, short trainings, review steps in the workflow, and clear escalation paths when red flags appear.
Why Hategan Digital
Hategan Digital exists because the market asked for it: a way to stay compliant and competitive without stalling innovation. We bring legal, technical, and operational roles to the same table, select the right tool for the right task, and pair it with the right controls.
Ioana blends 20+ years of cross-border M&A, corporate and commercial work with executive business training from SDA Bocconi to advise at the intersection of law, business, and technology. After completing an LL.M. in European & German Business Law and Taxation (University of Mannheim), she trained in the international department of Tiefenbacher (Heidelberg, 2002–2004). In 2004 she returned to Timișoara and founded the first business-focused law firm in Western Romania. Today she leads Hategan Attorneys and the Hategan Digital initiative, helping leadership teams turn technology, regulation, and cross-border complexity from risk into advantage with ethics and authenticity.
Ioana combines 5+ years in commercial and consumer law with Bocconi University’s competitive LL.M. in Law of Technology and Automated Systems (LATAS), bringing high-end, up-to-date expertise at the intersection of law and technology. Forward-thinking and relentlessly curious, she contributies with client oriented solution in technology projects. She advises on AI, data, platform, and consumer-law matters through a business lens. She returned from Milan, Italy to Timișoara to join and contribute to Hategan Attorneys and the Hategan Digital initiative, bringing an international perspective to cross-border projects.
This Privacy Policy (Policy) explains the way Hategan Attorneys collects, processes, uses and operates your personal information.
Hategan Attorneys is committed to protecting and respecting confidentiality regarding personal data.
Identification data of Hategan Attorneys
Categories of personal data processed by Hategan Attorneys
According to your quality and the activities performed by Hategan Attorneys in relation with you, Hategan Attorneys processes the following types of personal data:
Hategan Attorneys collects personal data from the following sources:
Purposes of processing personal data
According to your quality and the activities performed by Hategan Attorneys in relation with you, Hategan Attorneys processes the aforementioned categories of personal data for the following purposes:
Ground of personal data processing
Each processing of your personal data is operated on the basis of one of the following grounds:
Where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw it. To the extent that you would like to withdraw your consent, please communicate us your refusal to the e-mail address dataprotection@hategan.ro. You can also choose to withdraw your consent regarding the marketing materials at any time by simply accessing the "unsubscribe" link in the footer of each newsletter or invitation to events.
Recipients of your personal data
To accomplish the aforementioned purposes, depending on the relation that you have with Hategan Attorneys, it shall transfer your personal data to the following categories of recipients:
The personal data indicated above may be provided or transmitted to third parties in the following situations: (i) public authorities, auditors or institutions with competence in carrying out inspections and controls on Hategan Attorneys’ activity and assets, who ask from Hategan Attorneys to provide information, by virtue of the legal obligations of the latter. These public authorities or institutions may be: the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing or other authorities with the competence to verify our databases; (ii) to comply with a legal requirement or to protect Hategan Attorneys’ rights or assets or those of other legal persons or entities, as law courts.
Transfer of personal data abroad
In the context of performing the operations described above, your personal data may be transferred abroad to the member states of European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA).
Please be advised that any transfer made by Hategan Attorneys to a non-EU state shall comply with the legal requirements provided by the General Data Protection Regulation no. 2016/679 adopted by the European Parliament (GDPR).
Duration of processing
We shall store your personal data only for the period of time necessary to achieve the above processing purposes while respecting the legal requirements in force. Therefore, we shall store your data until the date of withdrawal of your consent when the processing shall be based on this legal basis.
If Hategan Attorneys appreciates that it has a legitimate interest or a legal obligation to further process your personal data for other purposes, you shall be duly informed in this respect.
Where legal action is initiated, your personal data shall be retained until the end of this action, including the potential periods of appeal and/or recourse, and then it shall be deleted or archived, as required by applicable law.
In principle, we shall retain your personal data for the duration requested or permitted by applicable law. Subsequently, upon expiry of these periods or in the exercise of any of your rights, in case there is no legal obligation regarding the retention of data to be observed by HAT we shall remove/delete your personal data from our systems and records and/or we shall make arrangements to anonymize them, so that you can no longer be identified on their basis.
Automated decision-making and automated profiling
The personal data referred to herein shall not be subject to automated decision-making processes, including automated profiling.
Security of personal data processing
Hategan Attorneys has implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to preserve the security and confidentiality of your personal data when stored, processed, transferred, accessed, as well when any other processing activity refers to them.
Hategan Attorneys informs you hereof that it regularly assesses and updates the implemented security measures in order to ensure the personal data processing safely and in secure conditions.
Website Hategan Attorneys and other websites
This website uses the cookies that are strictly necessary for the functioning of the site. For more information on how to use these cookies, please visit the Cookies Policy.
For any further questions as to how personal data are processed and to exercise the rights mentioned above, please contact our email address: dataprotection@hategan.ro, as well as our phone number 0040-256.430.454.
The website www.hategandigital.com may contain links to and from third-party websites. This policy applies only to this website, so when accessing the third party site (e.g. Facebook), their privacy policies should be read.
Your rights on the personal data processed by Hategan Attorneys
While processing your personal data, you have the following rights:
Right of access the personal data that are processed: you have the right to obtain confirmation that your personal data are processed or not, and if so, to have access to this type of personal data and the conditions under which they are processed, by addressing a request to that effect to the data controller;
Right to rectification and right to erasure of personal data: you have the possibility to request, by addressing an application to this effect to the data controller, the rectification of your inaccurate personal data, the supplementing of incomplete data or the erasure of your personal data if (i) the respective data is no longer required for the initial purpose (and there is no new legal purpose), (ii) the legal basis of the processing is the consent of data subject, the data subject withdraws its consent and there is no other legal basis, (iii) the data subject exercises his or her right to oppose and the controller has no legitimate grounds that prevail in order to continue processing, (iv) the data have been processed illegally, (v) the erasure is necessary for compliance with EU law or Romanian legislation or (vi) the data has been collected in connection with information society services provided to children (if any), when specific requirements for consent are applied;
Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to obtain restriction of processing in cases where: (i) you consider that personal data processed are inaccurate, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of personal data; (ii) processing is unlawful, but you do not wish to erase your personal data, but to restrict the use of such data; (iii) if the data controller no longer needs your personal data for the purposes mentioned above, but you need data to establish, exercise or defend a right in court; or (iv) you have objected to processing, pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.
Right to withdraw your consent regarding the processing, when the processing is based on consent, without affecting the legality of processing.
Right to object to personal data processing on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning when the processing is based on the legitimate interest of HAT (with observance of the applicable data protectiona dispositions) as well as to object to the processing for direct marketing and profiling purposes;
Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you;
Right to data portability, which you provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and the right to transmit those data to another controller processing, where the processing is based on your consent or an a contract and it is carried out by automated means;
Right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority (ANSPDCP) and right to submit legal claims to the competent courts.
The rights abovementioned can be exercised at any time.
Information
For any further questions as to how personal data are processed and to exercise the rights mentioned above, please contact our email address: dataprotection@hategan.ro, as well as our phone number 0040-256.430.454.
Hategan Attorneys, in his quality of controller, is exempted from the obligation of informing the data subjects whose personal information has not been obtained from them, but from the customer, where the personal data must remain confidential under a statutory obligation of professional secrecy, as it is governed by article 11 of Law no. 51/1995 for organizing and exercising the profession of lawyer.
This Privacy Policy can be updated from time to time. Any update shall become applicable from the time the new version is published on the Hategan Attorneys website or from the moment it has been communicated to you in any other way.
This policy refers to the cookies and the web page operated by Hategan Attorneys, registered in Timiş Bar under no. 27/1 of 19.04.2004, having FIC 19936503 and headquarters in Romania, Timiş County, Timișoara, 11 Ady Endre st., app. 1, through the att. Ioana Haţegan, acting as Managing Partner of Hategan Attorneys.
The official website of Hategan Attorneys Digital Platform is www.hategandigital.com.
The cookies are used in order to ensure the well-functioning of this website.
The purpose of the information presented below is to inform you on details regarding cookies, as well as their input and use on the website of Hategan Attorneys Digital Platform.
What is a Cookie?
An "Internet Cookie" (term known as "Browser cookie", "HTTP cookie" or simply “Cookie") is a small file consisting of letters and numbers, which will be stored on the computer, mobile terminal or other equipment on which the Internet is accessed.
A cookie is placed on the basis of the request issued by a web-server to a browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Chrome) and, despite the fact that it is stored on the equipment (computer, mobile terminal etc.) used to access the Internet pages, it cannot access other information from that device and it may not contain software programs, viruses or spyware, nor store personal data.
The Cookies used on the website www.hategandigital.com do not process personal data when they are used and do not identify the users of Internet pages.
A cookie consists of two parts: the name and the content or the value of the cookie.
The Cookies used by this website
For the website www.hategandigital.com are used the following types of cookies:
COOKIE TYPE - PURPOSE OF THE USE
What is the lifetime of a Cookie?
The lifetime of a cookie may vary significantly depending on the purpose for which it is placed. As mentioned above, some cookies are used exclusively for a single session (session cookies) and are not kept after the user leaves the website, while other cookies are kept and reused every time the user returns to the Website (persistent cookies). However, the cookies may be deleted by a user at any time through the browser settings. The website Hategan Attorneys Digital Platform uses session cookies.
How can I stop the Cookies?
Users can configure their browser to reject the cookies files. The deactivation and the refusal of receiving cookies can make certain sections/pages impracticable or difficult to visit.
*More information about cookies can be found on the website www.allaboutcookies.org or http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ro.
**The information related to cookies is not used to personally identify you. The cookies are not used for purposes other than those described hereof.