Qualifications & Expertise
An experienced team of lawyers specialising in employment law and service contracts, provide legal advice throughout Germany on all individual and collective employment law matters.
Our clients include medium-sized companies, domestic and foreign investors and large-scale companies and company groups. Providing legal advice to and representing management boards, managing directors and key employees when entering into and ending their service relationships also plays a significant role.
Main Focus
The main focuses of our employment law and service contract activities are
- Forming employment and service contract relationships
- Draft, negotiation and formulation of employment and service contracts
- Termination of employment and service contract relationships
- risk assessment and strategic advice
- implementation (notice/termination agreement)
- enforcement proceedings in court
- Restructuring and operational changes
- negotiations with works council
- negotiations with conciliation board
- negotiations with authorities
- feasibility studies
- representation in employment courts
- implementation of rights of individuals
- Transactions - Mergers & Acquisitions
- review and implementation of transfers of business and operational changes caused by transactions
- due diligence reports
- joint development of the employment law aspects of company transfer and merger agreements
- restructuring of contractual relationships, in particular managing directors\' contracts and contracts for members of the board of directors
- Collective bargaining agreement law
- collective bargaining agreements on transfer of business application and interpretation of collective bargaining agreements
- draft and negotiation of collective bargaining agreements
- exit from employers&apos associations
- Development of pay structures
- development of flexible models for remuneration, profit-related bonus and working hours, especially stock options, incentive plans and similar participation and pension models
- Works pension scheme
- structuring of works retirement pension systems
- privatisation and retirement provision
- new forms of pension
- legal advice when concluding and disputing pension commitments
- Legal advice provided to state institutions in the event of spin-offs