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Taylor Wessing enwc Rechtsanwälte GmbH
SCHWARZENBERGPLATZ 7
1030 VIENNA
Austria
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Work Department

Employment / Dispute Resolution

Position

Wolfgang Kapek is a partner at Taylor Wessing Vienna and heads the Employment as well as the Litigation & Dispute Resolution team. Wolfgang has extensive experience in the management of national and international clients in all areas of employment law. Services comprise individual employment law (e.g. drafting of employment and management contracts, bonus plans, etc.) as well as collective employment law (e.g. flexible working time solutions, all kinds of plant bargaining agreements, stock option plans, etc.). Wolfgang also specialises in restructuring including (cross-border) transfer of undertakings and redundancies (mass dismissal procedures and social plans). His experience also encompasses employment related litigation, being, for example, discrimination cases, challenging of terminations, unfair dismissals and also white collar crime cases.

Career

1994-1995: judicial clerkship year / 1996-1999: Associate at e|n|w|c Attorneys at Law, Vienna (now Taylor Wessing) / 1999: practical training at Hunton & Williams, Attorneys at Law, Atlanta, Georgia / 2000-2004: Attorney at e|n|w|c Attorneys at Law, Vienna (now Taylor Wessing)/ since 2004: Partner at e|n|w|c Attorney at Law, Vienna (now Taylor Wessing).

Languages

German, English

Memberships

He is a member of the Austrian Bar Association as well as the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA).

Education

Wolfgang studied law at the University of Vienna and did an internship at Hunton & Williams Attorneys at Law in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lawyer Rankings

Austria > Employment

Taylor Wessing enwc Rechtsanwälte GmbH‘s recent workload includes advice on delegating duties and liabilities, cross-border staff deployment, and drafting management contracts. The team is led by Wolfgang Kapek, who impresses clients with his ‘outstanding legal knowledge’ and offers particular knowledge on whistleblowing topics. Walter Pöschl is described as an ‘incredible expert when it comes to labour law issues’ and also covers a range of litigation matters. Brigitte Sammer left the firm in September 2022.

Austria > Dispute resolution: commercial litigation

Frequently assisting clients in mass litigation, construction, investor, and product liability disputes, Taylor Wessing enwc Rechtsanwälte GmbH works seamlessly with the firm’s other departments, such as IP/IT and real estate, and is noted for comfortably handling multi-jurisdictional disputes. Practice head Wolfgang Kapek is particularly known for employment disputes, while Ivo Deskovic focuses on the financial sector.