Gleiss Lutz
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Gleiss Lutz is one of the top addresses for German employment law and demonstrates particular strengths in assisting with restructurings and reorganisations, company pensions schemes as well as in advising executives of large German and international corporations. Transaction-related employment advice represents another mainstay, while practice head Thomas Winzer, among other matters, covers the insolvency law interface and applies his relevant expertise in restructuring and reorganisations. Here, he is further supported by Steffen Krieger, who also represents employers in disputes with employees, works and staff councils as well as with unions. The team regularly demonstrates its expertise in out-of-court and in-court disputes in landmark proceedings. The key team also features litigation lawyer Rut Steinhauser in Berlin, who specialises in technology and digital issues, and Christian Arnold in Stuttgart, who is experienced in executive compensation (according to ARUG II). Jens Günther in Munich covers issues pertaining to works constitution and collective bargaining law and places a further focus on the digitalisation of working life. In October 2023, Matthias Böglmüller (company pension provision, compliance, transaction support) joined Seitz.
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'Legal quality and confident negotiations with, among others, works councils and unions. The briefs are focused on the essentials without unnecessary emotions. You can see the approach of all the lawyers in the firm.'
'Thomas Winzer, Steffen Krieger and Katrin Haußmann are all leading lawyers in employment law in Germany, who calmly and confidently control the discussions in a very legally sound and tactically clever manner, even in heated negotiation situations with works councils, and bring them to success.'
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Work highlights
- Advising Deutsche Telekom AG on employment matters in the context of the bidding process for the sale of a majority stake of 51% in its radio tower business GD Towers to a bidding consortium consisting of the Canadian investment company Brookfield and the US infrastructure investor DigitalBridge.
- Advising several listed companies on their remuneration system, including advice on ESG criteria in executive board remuneration.
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