Employment Law
Paul Schreiner
Paul Schreiner betreut schwerpunktmäßig Restrukturierungsprojekte sowie kollektivrechtliche Auseinandersetzungen zwischen den betrieblichen Sozialpartnern. Darüber hinaus berät er in Fragen der betrieblichen Altersvorsorge und leistet Beratung bei Transaktionen. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt seiner Tätigkeit ist der Bereich der Konzernumstrukturierung unter mitbestimmungsrechtlichen Aspekten.
Hans-Christian Ackermann
Der Schwerpunkt der Tätigkeit von Hans-Christian Ackermann liegt in der Beratung von Unternehmen in allen Bereichen des Individual- und Kollektivarbeitsrechts, insbesondere bei Akquisitionen, Restrukturierungen einschließlich Outsourcingmaßnahmen sowie im Bereich der betrieblichen Altersversorgung. Dies umfasst die entsprechenden Verhandlungen mit Betriebsräten und Gewerkschaften. Daneben berät er Vorstände, Geschäftsführer und Führungskräfte und ist regelmäßig als Referent bei Seminar- und Schulungsveranstaltungen im Bereich des Arbeitsrechts tätig.
Marco Arteaga
Dr Marco Arteaga deals with all matters relating to occupational pensions, including tax, commercial, accounting, insolvency, social security and insurance law and all related actuarial, business administration and personnel policy aspects, which may arise when introducing or designing occupational pension schemes. He further deals with all pension-related issues raised by the involved pension providers and the typical financing instruments, such as direct insurance, reinsurance and collective insurance policies, pension funds, municipal, state and church supplementary pension funds and contractual trust arrangements (CTAs).
Volker von Alvensleben
Volker von Alvensleben advises on matters pertaining to individual and collective employment law, with a special emphasis on works constitution and collective bargaining law, the employment law aspects of transactions and the provision of employment law advice in the context of transformations, mergers and outsourcing.
Kerstin Belovitzer-Franz
Kerstin Belovitzer-Franz advises national and international companies – in particular, logistics companies and companies from the supply industry – on all aspects of individual and collective employment law, as well as on the related economic and strategic issues.
She primarily provides on-going legal advice to companies in the areas of individual employment law, collective bargaining and works constitution law. Kerstin Belovitzer-Franz advises on how to draft employment contracts and on the termination of employment contracts and service agreements. This regularly includes representing her clients in labour court disputes.
Her work further includes providing employment law advice during M&A transactions and advising on social security law issues.
Susanne Burkert-Vavilova
Susanne Burkert-Vavilova's practice focuses on individual labor law, corporate restructuring and corporate co-determination.
Nadine Ceruti
Nadine Ceruti advises companies on all issues regarding individual and collective employment law, special interest in company pension plans. She also conducts due dilignences regarding acquisitions and litigates in the competent courts
Eva Maria K. Rütz
Eva Rütz advises on all matters pertaining to individual and collective employment law, including international issues, with a particular emphasis on corporate restructuring and transaction advice and on advising companies from the health care industry on matters at the interface between employment law and medical law. In the area of medical law, she specialises in advising the various health care providers (hospitals, university hospitals, statutory health insurance physicians/medical care centres, pharmacists) on the economic aspects of medical law.
Eva Rütz heads the working group "Stationäre und ambulante Leistungserbringer" ("Inpatient and Outpatient Service Providers") together with Dr. Hendrik Bernd Sehy.
Volker Schneider
Dr. Volker Schneider berät umfassend im kollektiven und individuellen Arbeitsrecht. Schwerpunkte seiner Beratung sind Restrukturierungen und Unternehmenstransaktionen, das Betriebsverfassungsrecht, das Kündigungsschutzrecht, das Insolvenzarbeitsrecht, das Arbeitsrecht der Führungskräfte und das Recht der Syndikusrechtsanwälte. Neben der Beratung ist Dr. Volker Schneider auch in der Prozessführung tätig.
Christian Dworschak
Inhaltliche Schwerpunkte in der Beratung von Christian Dworschak sind alle Fragen des individuellen und kollektiven Arbeitsrechts. Regelmäßig berät er seine Mandanten bei der arbeitsrechtlichen Umsetzung von Akquisitionen und Reorganisationsmaßnahmen und führt Interessenausgleichs- und Sozialplanverhandlungen.
Zu seinem Tätigkeitsbereich gehören alle Fragen der betrieblichen Mitbestimmung, die arbeitsrechtliche Vertragsgestaltung sowie die Änderung und Beendigung von Arbeits- und Dienstverhältnissen. Er vertritt seine Mandanten gerichtlich und außergerichtlich. Christian Dworschak tritt regelmäßig als Referent zu arbeitsrechtlichen Themen bei verschiedenen Veranstaltungen auf.
Sebastian Fedder
Kollektives und individuelles Arbeitsrecht bei betrieblichen Restrukturierungen nebst Interessenausgleich/Sozialplan, Betriebsverfassungsrecht, Personalvertretungsrecht und Öffentliches Dienstrecht, Tarifvertragsrecht einschließlich Verhandeln von Haus- und Sanierungstarifverträgen, Zusatzversorgungsrecht (VBL/ZVK) und Recht der betrieblichen Altersversorgung
Umfangreiche Erfahrung in der Beratung privater Unternehmen und der öffentlichen Hand bei komplexen Transaktionen und Restrukturierungen mit Schwerpunkt Privatisierungsprojekte im Rahmen förmlicher und nichtförmlicher Verfahren auf Ebene des Bundes, der Länder und der Gemeinden einschließlich Due Diligences
Regelmäßige Referententätigkeit zu arbeitsrechtlichen Themen und verschiedene Veröffentlichungen, u. a.: Blanke/Fedder, Handbuch Privatisierung, 2. Auflage Nomos Verlag 2010, Mitherausgeber und Co-Autor; Co-Autor Handbuch Konzernarbeitsrecht, 1. Auflage, C.H.Beck 2015
Sandra Sfinis
Sandra Sfinis advises companies on all matters pertaining to individual employment and works constitution law. This includes, inter alia, drafting service and employment contracts, negotiating works agreements and representing her clients on arbitration committees. Sandra Sfinis additionally advises on the restructuring of companies and on business transfers, which includes providing strategic advice and negotiating reconciliation-of-interests agreements and social plans and assisting with the implementation of staff measures. Another focus of her advisory services is on employment litigation.
Annekatrin Veit
Dr Annekatrin Veit specialises in all employment, tax, social security, commercial and accounting law aspects of occupational pension schemes. She has extensive experience in assisting with negotiations and with risk analyses in the context of mergers and acquisitions, in harmonising pension schemes and in advising on how to organise the release from liability in liquidations or business successions. She supports clients in all tax matters that involve dealing with tax authorities and tax courts. She also advises on matters regarding statutory and contractual insolvency insurance and provides representation in occupational pension disputes.
Michael Rinke
Michael Rinke provides employment law advice in connection with all relevant HR issues. His advice also includes advice regardings turnaround and reorganisation.
Martin Kolmhuber
Dr Martin Kolmhuber leads the team for occupational pension plans within the employment service line.
He also specialises in employment law-related issues during corporate restructuring, with an emphasis on post-merger integration and on issues in works constitutions and tariff law.
His work in individual employment law especially deals with contract composition and forensic work in the case of contract termination.
Martina Ziffels
Martina Ziffels advises domestic and international clients on all matters pertaining to individual and collective employment law. An important part of her advisory services is drafting and negotiating contracts, e.g. employment and service contracts and cancellation agreements. In addition, she focuses on organising and providing assistance during restructurings, on works constitution law, and on the employment law aspects of mergers and acquisitions. In employment disputes, Martina Ziffels regularly represents her clients in court.
Kerstin Gröne
Kerstin Gröne specialises in the areas of individual employment law and collective employment law, restructuring and litigation. She coordinates projects abroad and liaises with our network law firms and the central personnel department.
As a mediator, she conducts structured voluntary proceedings – mediation proceedings – with a view to helping the parties to resolve their conflicts in a constructive manner.
Marilen Hilbert
Dr Marilen Hilbert advises family businesses and their shareholders/partners as well as domestic and foreign groups of companies on all matters pertaining to corporate law. She further specialises in mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and reorganisations, the structuring of property and business successions and in providing assistance with shareholder disputes, in and out of court. In addition, her services include advising on employment law issues.
Moreover, she also provides personal advice to managing directors, management and supervisory board members.
Team Services
Luther has one of the largest and highest-capacity employment law practices in the German market. While the focus of the advisory services is on collective employment law, the team is also very competent in the area of individual employment law. And something very unusual for a large law firm: Luther has a long tradition of providing top quality advice in all areas of employment law, not only in the context of transactions – even though it goes without saying that Luther’s advisors also provide transaction advice with great expertise. The team advises clients in both the private and the public sector.
Luther provides advice at a national and international level because comprehensive employment law advice often requires taking into account EU law and European jurisprudence, and also because issues involving international aspects account for an increasingly larger share of the advisory services rendered. With offices in Europe and Asia and an international network of partner law firms, Luther is very well positioned worldwide.
Awards and Recognition
Ranked in Legal 500 Deutschland 2022
Ranked for Employment
Ranked in Chambers Europe 2022
Ranked for Employment
NOMINATED FOR JUVE AWARD "LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR 2018 EMPLOYMENT"
Luther was one of only five law firms nominated by the specialist publishing house JUVE for the award "Law Firm of the Year 2018 Employment Law". The JUVE Awards are considered to be the most important award within the law firm's industry in Germany.