Fieldfisher

Employment I Pensions and Immigration

Marcus Kamp is a Partner in the Fieldfisher´s Dusseldorf office. With more than 18 years professional experience and as a Certified Specialist for Labour Law he advises national and international clients in all aspects of individual and collective labour law, both in and out of court.

A main focus of his work is the strategic and conceptual planning of restructurings, transfer of undertakings, outsourcing and offshoring measures as well as corporate acquisitions including the respective labour law advice. In particular this includes the drafting of balance-of-interests and social plans as well as the negotiations with employee representatives at plant, company and group level, the representation in conciliation committees and the drafting and negotiation of collective agreements with unions during restructurings.

He also advises on company pensions, particularly with respect to the harmonisation of pension schemes, outsourcing of pension liabilities and the statutory obligation to adjust pension benefits. In addition, he regularly advises companies, board members, managing directors and executive employees regarding drafting, concluding and terminating employment and service contracts. Questions of employee Data Protection and Labour Law advice during compliance investigations complete his range of activities.

Before joining Fieldfisher he worked for two other leading international law firms. He also worked as an adjunct professor for Labour Law at the University of Applied Science Fresenius in Cologne until 2014.

He advises his clients in German and English.

He is a member of the Working Committee of Certified Specialist for Labour Law of the German Bar Association.

He is a regular contributor to law journals and newspapers and conducts lectures and training sessions on labour law issues, in particular in-house-training for executive employees as well as for HR and legal departments.