Experience counts.

Our services include both regular labor and employment law advice for long-standing clients as well as strategic and project work to change the operational and organisational structure or effectively reduce the workforce. We also support M&A transactions (as far as labor and employment law is concerned) and give advice to companies in legal matters involving its Board and/or Management.

Most recently, we assisted our clients in following projects:

• Implementation of personnel restructuring measures

  of the German subsidiaries of a publicly listed US-American software company, including closure of a plant and of an operating unit. Here you can download our practical guide to redundancy and work force restructuring in Germany

• Structuring the deployment of outsourced personnel for an internationally operating consulting company

  in the area of strategy and process optimization to avoid risks of false self-employment and establishment of a regular personnel leasing system by involving agencies with corresponding authorisation. Review and optimisation of the management of outsourced personnel and the deployment of own personnel in client projects in view of the recent changes of the German Temporary Employment Act (Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz – AÜG)

• Advicing a German health care group on the operational structure

  of medical supply centres on the national level.

• Advising an online mail-order company to avoid unwanted personnel leasing

  in the structuring of a joint logistics project with a logistics service provider.

• Successful challenge of a works council election

  through a summary judicial proceeding due to the misjudment of the term “plant” (as defined in the Works Constitution Act) by the general works council of an international electrical wholesale group company.

• Due diligence project in view of the existing compliance policies

  for a middle-sized automotive supplier with several German plants. Subsequent revision of existing and drafting of new regulations as well as their rollout in the plants (including Management training and negotiations with employee representatives).

• Expert opinion on the works constitutional and collective bargaining situation

  in view of several affiliates of different branches of a group of companies with a shared location (and a unified works council).