With locations in Cologne, Munich, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt and a rapidly growing team, Seitz focuses its employment law advice on restructuring and large-scale projects. Most recently, it was particularly the team's growth that made headlines: at the beginning of 2023, a team of over twenty people joined from ADVANT Beiten, including Christopher Melms (works constitution law, collective bargaining law, industrial dispute rights), Wolfgang Lipinski (restructuring, transformation, remuneration and working time models), Daniel Hund (restructuring, transformation, deployment of external personnel), Stefan Lochner (restructuring, collective bargaining law, collective employment law), Kathrin Bürger (collective bargaining law, flexible working time models, compensation models) and Christina Kamppeter (restructuring, transformation, compliance, employment litigation), while Matthias Böglmüller (company pension provision, compliance, transaction support) also joined from Gleiss Lutz in October 2023 as salary partner. As a result, the practice is thus able to provide advice on the entire spectrum of employment law as well as on related corporate and insolvency matters, which it recently demonstrated in the restructuring of Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof; counsel and litigator Maximilian Schmidt also has expertise in employment-related sports matters. The team is led by name partner Stefan Seitz, who is experienced in collective bargaining, company constitution law expert Thomas Kania, and Marc Werner, who is also experienced in collective bargaining. In January 2023, Hannah Krings (group restructuring, collective employment law), Andreas von Medem (restructuring, insolvency-related advice, collective bargaining and industrial dispute rights) and Piero Sansone (restructuring, transformation, insolvency-related issues) made partners.
Testimonials
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'One of the most renowned law firms in the field of employment law; especially in the case of restructuring.'
'Hannah Krings and Marc Werner offer a high level of commitment and creative ideas in restructuring.'
'Collegial exchange at eye level.'
'Very competent team with a strong focus on operational practice and implementable solutions.'
'Marc Werner: Excellent lawyer; moves at all management levels; deep knowledge of labor law; not a self-promoter; ideal partner for solving complex, national and international problems and issues.'
'Piero Sansone: Very committed lawyer who is not afraid to get into the details of the company he advises and consistently implement the agreed path. Andreas von Medem: Very experienced lawyer who makes comprehensive use of all design options to achieve the desired results.'
'Excellent advice with a pragmatic approach, very service-oriented and quick to listen to the client.'
'Very deep understanding of business contexts; international experience; extremely customer oriented; “on hand” at any time; high level of competence in terms of employment law; High level of understanding in the interaction with employee representatives, unions and their effects.'
Key clients
- Alstom Group
- Apleona Group
- AMS/Osram
- Amphenol Group
- Axa
- Borbet Group
- Bayer AG
- Biofrontera AG
- Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BMF und BMBD)
- BARMER
- Bauwens
- Brose
- Cinedom
- clickworker GmbH
- Covestro AG
- Deutz AG
- Deutsche Telekom AG - Konzernbetriebsrat
- Dormakaba Gruppe
- DOUGLAS GRUPPE
- Deutscher Fußball-Bund e.V. (DFB)
- Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (DOSB)
- DKV Mobility Service Group
- DuMont Mediengruppe
- E.ON SE
- EA Electronic Arts
- Eintracht Frankfurt
- Flowserve Inc
- Fritzmeier gruppe
- ESPRIT
- Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof / Signa
- Galvanoform Gesellschaft für Galvanoplastik mbH
- GoDaddy Group
- Gothaer Group
- HIT/Dohle-Handelsgruppe
- Huawai Group
- Infineon AG
- Ista Gruppe
- Jabil Inc.
- JAMESTOWN US-Immobilien-Gruppe
- LAYA Group
- Deutsche Lufthansa Group
- MicroFocus Group
- Morphosys AG
- Müller Gruppe
- Nemak Gruppe
- Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group
- real GMBH
- Rheinische Redaktionsgemeinschaft GmbH
- Roche Pharma
- R+V Versicherung
- REWE
- Swarovski Group
- SCOR
- Segula Technologies
- Sony Europe
- Stadtwerkekonzern Köln
- Stellantis
- Ströer SE
- Talem Group
- ThyssenKrupp AG
- Tosoh Gruppe
- Tier Mobility
- TK Elevator
- Universitätsklinik Heidelberg
- Universitätsklinik Köln, Tarifgemeinschaft der Unikliniken NRW
- WKW Automotive
- Zeiss Group
- Zooplus AG
Work highlights
- Advising Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof on its restructuring ; among other things, staff cuts of around 7,000 employees with 52 location closures and in subsidiaries; further staff cuts at 80 locations; also supporting the collective agreement negotiations with ver.di/NGG in all group companies.
- Employment law and strategic advice for all companies in the Stellantis Group in Germany; including restructuring issues, workforce reductions, setting up a new sales company, compliance, supervisory board issues, litigation, pensions and employee data protection.
- Advice on employment law for the Alstom Group on the post-merger integration of Bombardier's railway division into the Alstom Group and advice on the restructuring project.