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Germany > Employment Tier 1

With locations in Cologne, Munich, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt and a rapidly growing team, Seitz Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater focuses its employment law advice on restructuring and large-scale projects. Most recently, it was particularly the team's growth that made headlines: at the beginning of 2023, a team of over twenty people joined from ADVANT Beiten, including Christopher Melms (works constitution law, collective bargaining law, industrial dispute rights), Wolfgang Lipinski (restructuring, transformation, remuneration and working time models), Daniel Hund (restructuring, transformation, deployment of external personnel), Stefan Lochner (restructuring, collective bargaining law, collective employment law), Kathrin Bürger (collective bargaining law, flexible working time models, compensation models) and Christina Kamppeter (restructuring, transformation, compliance, employment litigation), while Matthias Böglmüller (company pension provision, compliance, transaction support) also joined from Gleiss Lutz in October 2023 as salary partner. As a result, the practice is thus able to provide advice on the entire spectrum of employment law as well as on related corporate and insolvency matters, which it recently demonstrated in the restructuring of Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof;  counsel and litigator Maximilian Schmidt also has expertise in employment-related sports matters. The team is led by name partner Stefan Seitz, who is experienced in collective bargaining, company constitution law expert Thomas Kania, and Marc Werner, who is also experienced in collective bargaining. In January 2023, Hannah Krings (group restructuring, collective employment law), Andreas von Medem (restructuring, insolvency-related advice, collective bargaining and industrial dispute rights) and Piero Sansone (restructuring, transformation, insolvency-related issues) made partners.

Corporate and M&A > M&A Tier 4

Seitz Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater's M&A expertise is primarily called upon by German and international companies in the telecommunications, food and healthcare sectors as well as increasingly in the technology industry and includes company acquisitions and sales, joint ventures and disputes, also in connection with distressed M&A. Corporate and commercial law expert Wolfgang Student advises corporations and family businesses on M&A deals and restructurings, while Daniel Grewe assists German and international industrial companies and investors with private equity and venture capital transactions; both jointly head the practice. Florian Lauscher assists with distressed M&A and counsel Jennifer Konrad acts for investors in financing rounds.

Restructuring and insolvency > Insolvency Tier 5

Seitz Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater' insolvency law capacities include the advice to companies, governing bodies and shareholders on pre-insolvency restructuring, the support for creditors in insolvency proceedings and the representation of insolvency administrators in the enforcement and assertion of D&O liability claims. The team also assists with company acquisitions during insolvency and with insolvency employment law matters. The arrival of Jochen Markgraf from Glade Michel Wirtz - Corporate & Competition in May 2023 strengthened the capacities in representing ​​creditors and insolvency administrators; Markgraf jointly leads the team with Florian Lauscher, who focuses on insolvency law.