Attorney, Certified Employment Law Specialist

Partner

Burkard Göpfert advises primarily on complex transformation, integration and restructuring projects and on the harmonisation of employment conditions. He is the author and (co-)editor of a large number of textbooks on the topics of restructuring and employment law, and a lecturer at Passau University, and for over ten years he has organised the Handelsblatt annual conference on restructuring. Burkard Göpfert is also co-editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht.

German, English

European Employ­ment Lawyers Association (EELA) Gesell­schaft für Umstruk­tu­rie­rung TMA Deutsch­land e.V. Inter­na­tio­nal Bar Association, Employ­ment Law Section Inter­na­tio­nal Insolvency Institute

Attorney since 1996 With KLIEMT.HR Lawyers since 2017 Previously practised for international commercial law firms, including heading a law firm in Warsaw; firm’s country representative for China and South-East Asia Consultancy on a large number of US court proceedings as German co-counsel, including discrimination proceedings (Dresdner Bank) and combating class action claims (Napster) Professional training in Passau, Geneva, Munich, New York and Berlin Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Columbia University, New York