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Irwin Mitchell Offices

Irwin Mitchell
40 HOLBORN VIADUCT
LONDON
EC1N 2PZ
England
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Dr Sybille Steiner

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020 7650 3848 sybille.steiner@irwinmitchell.com

Work Department

Employment.

Position

Partner and head of employment team; also qualified and admitted as a lawyer in Germany and practising as a German lawyer. Assisting businesses from the UK and abroad (medium, large and listed companies, including household names in the UK and from German speaking countries) as well as individuals, usually on board level, with all aspects of contentious and non-contentious English and German employment law. The advice usually involves international and cross border employment issues and often questions of applicable law, as well as state immunity. Specialities: drafting and negotiating contracts of employment and executives’ service agreements and restrictive covenants, termination of employment contracts and service agreements, negotiating settlement agreements, discrimination claims, collective and individual redundancies, business sales and acquisitions (including TUPE transfers). Legal support provided in English or German.

Career

Trained Pritchard Englefield; qualified 1992; solicitor Pritchard Englefield 1991-95; salaried partner Pritchard Englefield 1995-99; equity partner Pritchard Englefield 1999-2013; equity partner Thomas Eggar LLP (following merger of Pritchard Englefield with Thomas Eggar LLP) 2013 to date; chairman British-German Jurists’ Association 2006 to date. Publications of note: Chapter on Company Directors in ‘Vertragshandbuch Geschäftsführer-Vorstand-Aufsichtsrat, Lexis Nexis Deutschland GmbH, 2011.

Languages

German.

Memberships

British-German Jurists’ Association; Employment Lawyers Association; European Employment Lawyers Association; European Lawyers’ Association; Deutscher Anwaltverein; Associate Member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Fachanwälte für Arbeitsrecht im Deutschen Anwaltverein; Arbeitsgemeinschaft internationaler Rechtsverkehr im Deutschen Anwaltverein.

Education

Gymnasium am Waldhof, Bielefeld, Germany; University of Bielefeld, Germany (1986 Law Degree (Distinction) and qualification as German lawyer; 1990 PhD Law (magna cum laude)); College of Law (1992 Law Society Finals First Class Honours); King’s College London (European Young Lawyers scholarship programme).

Leisure

football and theatre.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Employment > Employers

Irwin Mitchell is recommended for international cross border employment matters, including post sales and acquisitions TUPE transfers. The firm also handles day to day HR support. Shah Qureshi leads the team jointly with Sybille Steiner, who is dual-qualified in the UK and Germany and recommended for advising German clients operating in the UK. The firm also serves a wider range of clients including Gatwick Airport and The Economist.

South East > Employment > Employment: Kent, Surrey, Sussex

Irwin Mitchell’s Gatwick-based employment practice regularly advises on litigation, IR35 issues and restrictive covenants across a range of sectors including the financial services and retail industries. The firm has recently expanded its work with a number of new clients in the education sector, offering advice on industrial relations as well as holiday pay and entitlement matters. The team is headed by English and German dual-qualified lawyer Sybille Steiner, who splits her time between London, Gatwick and Southampton and has experience advising UK-based and international businesses in the manufacturing and retail sectors. Charlotte Sloan joined Birketts LLP in June 2023.

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