Find Lawyers in Germany for Employee Benefits Law
Practice Area Overview
Legal advice will be required when planning, drafting, and implementing a benefit plan. The employee benefit lawyer will work closely with tax lawyers, and in case of pension plans, with actuaries in order to be able to offer the client comprehensive advice.
When introducing, altering, or closing benefit plans that cover not only senior executives, the co-determination rights of a works council representing the employees of the relevant company will have to be observed. Conflicts arising between employers and works councils will be dealt with in a specific dispute resolution process and under certain circumstances in court. Both during the formal dispute resolution process as well as in court the parties will often rely on the advice of their employee benefit lawyer.
When companies are restructured, and in case of M&A transactions where business are bought and sold or restructured, employee benefits lawyers are called upon to identify the issues arising during the transaction and will work with the client and the deal lawyer to find a legally and economically acceptable solution to these issues.
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Born in Munich in 1965, Dr. Markus Kelber studied law and worked as a research assistant at the University of Regensburg in 1987 after completing his apprenticeship as a carpenter. Dr. Kelber has been active as a lawyer in Berlin since 1996, working first for an employers’ association and then for the medium-sized local law firm Danckert Böx Meier. In 1998, he obtained his doctorate in constitutional law with Prof. Dr. Udo Steiner in Regensburg, with a thesis on the subject of &ldq...
Dr. Barbara Koch-Schulte is a partner at POELLATH in Munich. She specializes in legal and tax advisory on management participation (MBI/MBO), including ESOPs, phantom shares and other incentive programs. A main focus is the accompaniment of management participation in the taxation process, in tax audits and other disputes with the tax authorities. Her clients are managers and employees, as well as investors and employers. Her dual qualification as a lawyer and tax advisor also makes her a sou...
Dr. Andrea Kröpelin is a partner and certified specialist in employment law at Möhrle Happ Luther . She advises national and international clients on all aspects of individual and collective employment law, including representation in court. Some of the key areas of her work are legal and strategic advice relating to restructuring and M&A projects, company co-determination law, global mobility and employee data protection. She also has a wide range of experience in advising phar...
Born in Brühl in 1965, Dr. Rolf Zeißig studied law in Bonn, Hamburg and Berlin. He was a research assistant at the Department of Labor and Social Law at the University of Potsdam and obtained a doctorate in labor law on the subject of “The Conservation of the Status Quo of Works Council Agreements in the Event of Termination”. Dr. Zeißig has worked as a lawyer since 1996 and as a specialist in labor law since 1999. He has been with ZENK since 2002. Dr. Zeißi...
Alex counsels in-house lawyers and HR employees of tech-driven companies with topics around HR Regulation and Compliance, including protection of business secrets from an employment perspective, as well as developing and implementing HR solutions around the Future of Work. As a strategic, hands-on practitioner, Alex leads restructurings and RIF's, counsels on employee management, as well as internal investigations and all other employment related topics. He has a vast wealth of experience in ...
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