Hans-Hermann Aldenhoff
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Position
Advising HVB / UniCredito in a global reorganisation across 24 jurisdictions; Advising General Electric in all matters of German and European labour law, including contentious and non contentious representation in negotiations with trade unions, works councils and staff, both in relation to acquisitions and disposals as well as internal reorganisations; Criminal, litigation and employment advice to Hitachi in a multimillion € cross border fraud case, including recoordination of a special investigation and representation vis-à-vis the public prosecutor; Ongoing advice to various German DAX 30 groups on compliance and related litigation matters; Advising a global leading supplier of industrial applications in corruption investigations, including representation vis-à-vis the public prosecutor. Hans-Hermann heads the labour and litigation department of the German Simmons & Simmons offices, covering both contentious and non contentious employment and litigation. One particular field of expertise is white collar crime, where Hans-Hermann advises corporations on all labour and criminal law related proceedings against former management or third parties as well as on corporate compliance issues. He is also a member of the firm's Crime, Fraud and Investigations group.
Career
After obtaining a banking diploma, Hans-Hermann read law and economics in Münster (PhD), Düsseldorf and Sydney (LLM). Besides this, he underwent Executive Training in Law Firm Leadership at Harvard Law School. He was educated in the US and worked for multinational corporations in Bangkok, Johannesburg and Singapore before joining a leading international law firm in 1999. Hans-Hermann joined Simmons & Simmons in Düsseldorf as a partner in 2002. He became head of the Düsseldorf and Frankfurt offices in 2006 and has led the firm's global Contentious Division since 2008. Legal 500 (2010) singles him out as a "particularly good lawyer". Chambers (2009) quotes clients who describe him as "a direct and client-orientated lawyer who finds solutions, is a great businessman and doesn´t back down". He publishes frequently in the areas of employment, insolvency and criminal law and lectures on corporate restructuring at the European Business School.