Dr Christoph Wolf > CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz Rechtsanwälte GmbH > Vienna, Austria > Lawyer Profile
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GAUERMANNGASSE 2
1010 WIEN
Austria
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Dr Christoph Wolf
Work Department
Employment Law, Compliance, Medical Law
Position
Christoph Wolf is a partner at CMS and heads the employment and pensions team together with Bernhard Hainz. For over 15 years he has been particularly advising companies with respect to judicial and extra-judicial labour law matters, including the implementation of restructuring measures, negotiating works agreements and redundancy plans as well as settling disputes with works councils and employees. An additional focal point of his work revolves around providing support to former state-owned companies, as well as dealing with various labour law-related issues in the area of compliance projects. He also advises clients on legal issues concerning the international secondment of staff as well as all labour law topics relevant in the field of compliance.
In addition, Christoph Wolf has served and continues to serve as a lecturer at the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the Danube University Krems as well as the Medical University of Vienna.
Career
Assistant professor at the Institute for Labour and Social Security Law of the University of Vienna (1992-1995), lecturer at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and the Medical University of Vienna, joined CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz in 1995 (partner since 2004), author of numerous commentaries and articles on labour law.
Having been recommended by Chambers as a leading expert in the field of employment law for a number of years, he was promoted to Band 1 in 2017, making him the second employment law partner in Vienna to be at the top of this ranking.
Christoph Wolf has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.
Languages
German, English.
Memberships
Austrian Bar Association, European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA).
Education
University of Vienna (Mag. iur., 1993; Dr. iur., 1999).
Lawyer Rankings
Austria > Employment
(Hall of Fame)CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz Rechtsanwälte GmbH fields a market-leading team of experts that comfortably operates across the whole spectrum of employment law, with areas of expertise including antidiscrimination, EU, and working time law as well as litigation before courts and other authorities. The team is headed by Bernhard Hainz
alongside Christoph Wolf and acts in various industries, with particular knowledge of the consumer products, financial services, and consulting sectors. Hainz’ workload includes the negotiation of collective agreements and social plans, while Wolf’s practice focuses on the intersection of labour and compliance issues. Specialising in European labour law, Daniela Krömer was appointed as a partner in May 2023 and co-heads the firm’s international employment law group.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Administrative law and public sector
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Construction
- Dispute resolution: commercial litigation
- EU and competition
- Intellectual property
- Private client
- Projects and energy
- Public procurement
- Capital markets
- Data privacy and data protection
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate
- Tax
- TMT
- Dispute resolution: arbitration and mediation