ADVANT Beiten
Under the leadership of Markus Künzel, ADVANT Beiten's employment team advises on the full spectrum of individual and collective employment issues with a focus on restructuring and reorganisation as well as transactions and collective bargaining issues. While Mark Zimmer (transaction support, employment compliance) joined from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in October 2023 and Andreas Imping from Friedrich Graf von Westphalen & Partner in early 2024, the reporting period was marked by numerous departures: in October 2022, Andreas Reuther (restructuring, transaction support, business transfers) joined POELLATH, followed by the departure of a team of more than twenty lawyers at the beginning of 2023 to Seitz Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater, 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, working time and remuneration models) and Christina Kamppeter (restructuring, transformation, compliance, litigation).
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Testimonials
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'Markus Künzel: Top experience, extremely good at communication, strong at implementation, top employment lawyer.'
'Reliable coordination within the team, every case is handled professionally and addressed and followed up in a structured manner. The team is always available.'
'Our contact person always manages to explain legal processes and make recommendations in a way that even a non-lawyer can understand - the cases are looked at strategically and not reduced to individual cases, so that we always stay true to our strategy, especially when repeating them.'
'Always make reliable, punctual and competent statements.'
'A strong team of lawyers specializing in employment law.'
'Erik Schmid: Always available immediately or within a very short time to answer questions competently and without shyness. His briefs are concise and characterized by his many years of experience. His conduct in court is objective and targeted.'
'Gerald Müller-Machwirth: An extremely reliable, likeable and pragmatic consultant whose work results are legally flawless and can be implemented excellently in practice. He has a good memory of past joint projects that have already been completed, which is extremely helpful, especially in a widely branched company with many stakeholders involved, and is not a given when compared to the market.'
'Team of full professionals who cover the entire employment law context.'
Key clients
- Aenova Holding GmbH
- BWI GmbH
- Citigroup Global Markets Europe AG
- FTI Touristik GmbH
- Gate Gourmet
- Johanniter Unfallhilfe e.V.
- MM Packaging Group
- REWE
- Saarbrücker Zeitung Medienhaus GmbH
- Sappi Europe S.A.
- thyssen Steel AG
- Uniper SE
- MTU Aero Engines AG