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born in Berlin 1999-2004 Graduate Studies at the Free University of Berlin 2004-2006 Research assistant in the labor and employment law department of Linklaters, Berlin 2005-2007 Compulsory legal training in Berlin2007Admission to the German Bar Association 2007-2010 Associate at Salans LLP, Berlin 2010 Managing Associate at Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law 2012 Certified labor and employment law specialist 2013 Counsel at Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law 2014 Partner at Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law, Berlin
Dr Thomas Barthel is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Berlin office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. He advises and represents national and international companies from various industries on all aspects of individual and collective labour law as well as social security law. He focuses on restructurings and collective bargaining negotiations. He also renders advice on labour law aspects of corporate transactions and assists with proceedings before conciliation b...
Dr. Alexander Bartz has been an employment law specialist for a number of years and he established his reputation whilst working at leading international law firms and at Germany’s largest boutique firm for employment law.Alexander Bartz advises his national and international clients on issues of individual and collective employment law with a focus on tariff law. The core areas of his practice include advising on restructurings and on questions and disputes arising under the Works Coun...
Jan-Ove Becker advises companies on national and international employment and labor law. He concentrates in corporate reorganization, restructuring and corporate transactions. He also advises on labor relations matters and negotiates with group, company and local works councils. He has an industry focus on technology, media and entertainment. He is also advisor to numerous venture capital funded companies. Jan-Ove is a member of our practice groups focussing on newly emerging legal playing fi...
Tobias Berdesinski advises domestic and international companies in the areas of personal and collective employment law. The focus of his work is on legal and strategic advice, restructuring, litigation and negotiations. He is particularly involved in the field of occupational pensions and industrial constitution issues. Tobias Berdesinski is a member of the aba Arbeitsgemeinschaft für betriebliche Altersversorgung e.V. (association of occupational pensions) in the Federal Association of ...
Dr Thomas Bezani offers advice to national and international companies on all matters of individual and collective labour law. One of his specialities is the restructuring of companies and the associated negotiations with work councils and trade unions, with as well as regarding termination rights. He also represents his clients before courts of labour and civil law. His focuses is in the areas of commerce and services, automotive and manufacturing.
Dr. Thomas Bichat - Lawyer Dr. Thomas Bichat is a lawyer at Schlun & Elseven Rechtsanwälte PartG. His main practice areas are employment law and inheritance law. Specialized in Employment and Labour law Dr. Thomas Bichat is advising and representing our clients as the head of our employment law practice group, in particular in the field of individual and collective employment law. The complex issues often also include social security and tax law components. Dr. Thomas Bichat is advis...
Dr. Frauke Biester-Junker advises companies on all matters of employment law, particularly on corporate restructuring – from due diligence to post-merger integration. As partner in an international business law firm, Dr. Frauke Biester-Junker has represented numerous (inter-)national companies in this area in past years. Dr. Frauke Biester-Junker advises on questions of company retirement pensions and compliance with employment law. A trained mediator, Dr. F...
Carsten Brachmann is a partner at fellaws, Berlin. He advises private and public employers on individual and collective employment law, especially regarding collective bargaining, works council constitution law, employee representation law and employee leasing. Carsten Brachmann has been a certified specialist for employment law since 2005 with a legal advisory focus on employment law in the areas of public service and M&A. He advises employers on restructuring measures in various industr...
born in Neuss 1995-2000 Graduate Studies at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 2000-2001 Master of Advanced European Studies (MAES) at the University Basle, Switzerland 2001-2003 Compulsory legal training in Düsseldorf and Sydney, Australia 2004 Admission to the German Bar Association 2004-2011 Associate at Simmons & Simmons, Düsseldorf 2007 Secondment als Legal Counsel bei US-Versicherer Genworth Financial 2010 Certified labor and employment law specialist 2011...
born in Duisburg 1998-2004 Graduate Studies at the Justus-Liebig-Universiy Gießen, the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and the University of Cologne 2005-2007 egal training in Duisburg and Düsseldorf 2004 PhD thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Dauner-Lieb, University of Cologne on: „The system of employee participation directives – base for a European works constitution?“ 2006-2007 Graduate Studies at the University of Huddersfield (UK) 2008 Admission to the...
born in Leipzig 1999-2001 Graduate studies at University Leipzig 2001-2004 Graduate studies with main focus on labor and employment law at Georg-August-University Göttingen 2005-2007 Compulsory legal training in Hessen 2008-2010 Research assistant at the institute for labor and employment law at Georg-August-University Göttingen 2010 Associate at Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law 2011 Admission to the German Bar Association 2011 Associate at Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law 2016 Managing Associa...
Christoph Crisolli advises companies for over 20 years in all areas of individual and collective employment law with a focus on business transactions and restructuring from the planning phase to post-merger integration, social plan negotiations, the development and negotiation of redundancy schemes and collective bargaining agreements. He has particular experience in the management and implementation of transnational projects.
born in Berlin 1999–2004 Graduate Studies at the Free University of Berlin 2005 LL.M. at the Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) 2005 Compulsory legal training in New Zealand 2006-2008 Compulsory legal training in Berlin 2008 Admission to the German Bar Association 2008-2013 Associate for labor and employment law at White & Case LLP, Berlin 2010-2012 PhD thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Frank Bayreuther (Free University of Berlin / University Passau) on “The purchase...
Having been educated in Germany and England (Stockport,1970) I studied law in Tübingen and was trained at the Stuttgart High Court. In the end of the year 1984 I qualified by passing the State examn and was admitted to the Stuttgart Bar in early 1985. After having worked as a labour law specialist for a couple of years (junior partner in a Stuttgart law firm) I was asked to organize the legal framework for about 7.000 people in Saxony who had lost their jobs after the German reunion in 1...
Michael Dietzler completed the study of law at the University of Cologne from 1991 to 1997. Before deciding to join Küttner, he gained professional experience in company and employment law in English speaking countries. Of particular note are his positions at a US automobile manufacturer in Detroit, as well as at a major international law firm in London. At Küttner, Michael Dietzler is specialized in individual and collective employment law. He joined the firm in 1999. He advises, c...
Jan Einhaus advises companies, public authorities and senior management on matters of national and international employment law. He focuses his practice on corporate reorganization and restructuring, and the laws governing labor regulations in the workplace. Before joining vangard, he worked as an associate at international law firms in Düsseldorf and Munich. He was admitted to the bar in 2010.
Ernst Eisenbeis studied law at the Universities of Bayreuth and Bonn. He joined CBH attorneys in 1987 when he was admitted to the bar. Here he is active in all areas of individual and collective labour law. The focus of his activities as a lawyer is in advising employers on business changes and representing executives. Ernst Eisenbeis is a specialist lawyer for labour law. He is co-editor of the trade journal “FA-Fachanwalt Arbeitsrecht” and, together with his partners Werner M. M...
Nils Evermann is an attorney-at-law and employment law specialist at Möhrle Happ Luther. He advises clients on all aspects of individual and collective employment law and represents them both out of court and in court and in conciliation proceedings. In particular, his areas of practice include advising employers on all aspects of employment law, drafting employment contracts including social security issues arising in connection with employment relationships, and providing strategic adv...
Thomas Faas studied law at the Rhine Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn from 1996 to 2001. After his legal clerkship with stations at, among others, the Regional Labor Court in Cologne and the State Office for Occupational Health and Safety in Cologne, he started working as an attorney in the labor law department of a major international law firm in Cologne in 2005. In 2007, he joined another global law firm at its Düsseldorf office, where he has been a Local Partner since 2010. Thomas...
Local Partner Holger Faust advises clients on virtually the entire spectrum of employment law. In his consulting practice, he regularly deals with works constitution law issues, including the drafting of works agreements in remuneration matters and on IT systems. Holger Faust has acted on numerous measures of an employer change for national and international companies and negotiated with works councils. A further focus of his work is on issues relating to the deployment of external personnel,...
Dr Michaela Felisiak is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. She advises national and international clients and businesses on all issues of the German and European social-security law and labour law. Among other things, she focuses her work on providing legal advice on cross-border matters. In this context she advises on all labour and social security law issues in connection with cross-border employee assignments (secondmen...
Christoph Fingerle is a partner in the employment practice of Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner in Freiburg and a Certified Specialist in labor law. He advises companies on all aspects of individual and collective labor law including company pension schemes. His focus is on advising employers in the drafting of employment contracts, restructurings, transfer of undertakings and mass redundancies; and in the context of pre and post transactional labor and employment issues arising out...
Martin Fink is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. His area of expertise especially comprises collective and individual labour law, on which he advises national and international companies. Negotiations with bodies under works constitution law (group/central/individual works councils) at the occasion of restructurings are as much part of his area of expertise as the defence of employers against dismissal protection or...
born in Münster 1999-2004 Graduate studies at the Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Münster 2004 -2006 PhD thesis on the subject of “Prohibitions with Reservation of Permission in the Law on Protection against Dismissal”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Christian Rolfs at the University of Bielefeld 2006-2008 Legal training in the Higher Regional Court district of Düsseldorf 2008 Admission to the German Bar Association 2008-2015 Lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP...
Dr. Thomas Griebe formed his own employment law boutique in Hamburg in September of 2012. Previously he was an Equity Partner and International Head of Employment & Pensions at an international business law firm. He advises national and international clients on all questions of employment law. He also specializes in advising US clients, and staffing services and has a large client base of small and medium-sized enterprises. Trained in mediation, Dr. Thomas Griebe also...
Dr. Oliver Grimm has been working for vangard since its founding. He advises companies with international and national operations on all matters of individual and collective employment law. Before vangard was established, he was an equity partner of an international business law firm and advised on all issues of employee representation law and on compliance with employment law. Drafting company agreements and providing legal support for restructuring remain key areas of his work. Oliver Grimm...
Dr. Rajko Herrmann has been an attorney since 2003 and advises his national and international clients on all areas of individual and collective employment law, including litigation before the courts at all instances. He has particular expertise in restructuring and redundancies, the law relating to labor management and co-determination as well as employment law advice on the incorporation of European companies and all kinds of transactions. A further specialist area is providing employment la...
Dr. Herbert Hertzfeld studied law in Hannover and Cologne. He worked as a research assistant at Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf, while pursuing his doctorate. The topic of his doctoral thesis was civil litigation. During his law internship, he worked for Küttner Attorneys at Law, he also held other positions at a science-oriented law practice in the United States. Dr. Herbert Hertzfeld has longstanding experience providing advice, counsel and representation in all employment law ...
Peter Hoppenstaedt advises national and international companies in all areas of individual and collective employment law. The focus of his work is on industrial constitution law and collective bargaining including operational conciliation proceedings, employment law advice in the context of restructuring projects and outsourcing, as well as on supporting his clients in individual proceedings and decision-making processes. He also has many years of experience advising managing directors, execu...
Dr Daniel Hund is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. He advises both national and international corporations on European and German labour and employment law. His work includes restructuring companies (including staffing cutbacks, outsourcing and transfer of business), collective bargaining and dealing with works councils (a works council is a kind of co-managing committee elected by the employees of a certain compan...
Andreas Imping is a partner in the employment practice of Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner in Cologne. Together with partner Sven Köhnen, Andreas Imping is the partner in the firm's employment law practice in Cologne. He moved from DLA Piper to FGvW in June 2017. Andreas Imping advises on individual and collective employment law and litigates throughout Germany. In addition, he has a wide range of experience in the employment law aspects of company acquisitions, restructuring ...
Dr. Benjamin Ittmann studied law at the University of Bonn from 1996 to 2001 and worked as a research assistant for the Institute of Employment and Social Security Law.After completing his doctorate and law internship, he started his practice as an attorney at a major German law firm in 2006. His main practice area was the representation and counseling of companies in employment law matters. Dr. Ittmann joined Küttner in 2010. Dr. Ittmann advises, counsels and represents companies, execu...
Sebastian Juli specializes in employment law advice and representation of companies, in particular family-owned companies in the metal and electrical industry and shareholdings under public law. He advises his clients on individual and collective corporate law, on restructuring, wage contract negotiations and employment contracts and separation agreements with managing directors/executive board members as well as D&O liability. Another of Sebastian Juli's specializations is employment law...
Christina Kamppeter is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT‘s Munich office and member of the Labour & Employment Law practice group. She advises both national and international companies on all areas of individual and collective employment law, in particular on negotiations with works councils and unions. Another focus of her practice is the restructuring of companies (including staff reduction, outsourcing and transfer of business). In this connection, she advises on all related questions ...
Dr. Matthias Kast has been advising employers since 1995 on all questions relating to individual and collective employment law. He is particularly experienced in advising on the structuring and implementation of rationalization measures for personnel, especially negotiations for conciliation of interests and social plans, drafting employment and service contracts and advising corporate bodies and managers. He is especially skilled in advising on employment law strategy. Dr. Matthias Kast has ...
born in Calw 1994-1999 Graduate Studies at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main 1999-2000 Graduate Studies at University of Exeter, LL.M. European Legal Studies 2002-2003 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Frankfurt am Main 2004 PhD thesis supervised by Prof. Dr.Manfred Weiss, University of Frankfurt/Main on “The impact of human rights on Labour Law in Germany and England.” 2003-2011 Lawyer and since 2009 Partner at Beiten Burkhardt Rechtsanwaltschaftgesellschaft ...
Labor and Employment Law Definition
Labor and employment relationships are of great significance in any economy. In Germany, these relations are governed by a complex structure of statues and regulations on national and international level as well as by a very dynamic case law. As several mandatory employee protection rights have their origin in European law not only the precedents of the national labor courts but also the rulings of the European Court of Justice influence German labor and employment law significantly. As a result it is safe to say that labor and employment law is one of the most dynamic fields of law in Germany.
As labor and employment lawyers we do not only deal with the relations between employees and employers (individual employment law) but also between works councils and trade unions and employers and employers' associations (collective employment law). Further in M&A transactions the advice of an employment lawyer is sought by companies, employees, and works councils. Social security law and data protection law also influence employment relations.
The advice an employment lawyer offers in individual employment will include the drafting or revision of employment contracts, advise any issues arising during the employment relationship such as disciplinary issues, maternity and parental rights, working time and minimum wages issues, compliance investigations, etc. An important area of individual employment law will deal with the issues arising when an employment relationship is terminated. This will include the preparation of a notice of termination as well as the representation of employers and employees in law suits in termination protection proceedings in front of a labor court. More and more employment lawyers are asked to advise on discrimination issues which may occur when hiring or promoting an employee and can render a notice unlawful even if the employment relationship does not fall within the scope of the termination protection act.
A labor and employment lawyer will also help navigate through the complex system of collective labor law. Trade unions and employers' associations negotiate rules that apply on an industry wide, regional level or for specific groups of employees (e.g. pilots, train drivers, etc.). Works council have extensive co-determination rights and again will negotiate with the employer specific rules for the plant or company in which they represent the employees. Conflicts arising between employers and works councils will be dealt with in a specific dispute resolution process and under certain circumstances in court. Both during the formal dispute resolution process as well as in court both parties will often rely on the advice of their employment lawyer.
In case of restructuring measures, a labor and employment lawyer will advise the employer and works council on the requirement to negotiate a compromise of interests agreement and a social plan and be at their side during the negotiation process.
When companies and businesses are sold, both the works councils' rights to be informed and consulted with as well as the protection of the acquired rights of individual employees will have to be looked at from a legal perspective.
Labor and employment law is a highly specialized and
dynamic area of law. A lawyer active in this field of law will have to consider
not only the legal aspects of the client’s issues but also the practical and
often emotional issues the client is faced with.
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