With a focus on medium-sized businesses, act legal assists with the whole array of individual and collective employment law issues and makes use of a European law firm network for cross-border matters. Central pillars consist of restructuring and transactions on one hand, and ongoing advice as well as New Work and compliance on the other. Furthermore, the group has an employment criminal law expert in Thomas Block. Name partner Sven Tischendorf often acts in restructuring and transaction matters, including distressed ones, and jointly leads the practice with Stephan Schwilden, who is experienced in the reorganisation of company pension systems.
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Key clients
- ADAC
- All4Labels Gruppe
Work highlights
- Advising healthcare service providers McKesson and PHOENIX on the negotiation of post-merger integration into the Phoenix Group, the harmonisation of structures and location relocations.
- Advising British fashion group Belstaff on day-to-day employment law matters, in particular on individual contract design, on the issue of working hours and data protection as well as on the standardisation of working conditions.