MÜLLER WITTEN is a law firm specializing in advising companies and executives on employment law matters. As lawyers specializing in employment law with many years of experience, we are able to offer you legal advice at the highest level.
Professional quality of the highest level and professionalism are a matter of course for us.
We attach particular importance to:
AVAILABILITY AND FLEXIBILITY
If necessary, we are at your service at short notice and ensure that your questions are dealt with and answered promptly. Having worked for a large international law firm, we have extensive experience in dealing with time-critical enquiries, not least because of advising clients on M&A.
PERSONAL ASSISTANCE AND CREATIVITY
It is our primary concern to personally provide legal assistance to you based on our many years of experience in practising as lawyers. Our boutique law firm ensures that your case is handled by your contact and not passed on to younger lawyers. Thus we guarantee that our work meets the highest quality requirements and that we are able to offer you innovative solutions if required. We are highly specialized and give legal advice exclusively on matters of employment law. Should you need legal advice in other fields of law, we can draw on a network of law firms we cooperate with.
ENTREPRENEURIAL THINKING
AND PRACTICABILITY
We combine solution-oriented scientific working methods and entrepreneurial thinking. Not only do we compile the facts of the case from a legal point of view, but we also discuss with you the possible courses of action resulting therefrom with regard to practicability and economic consequences.
EFFICIENCY AND A SENSE OF PROPORTION
We always keep an eye on our expenditure of time and effort.
MÜLLER WITTEN was established as a spin-off of the large international law firm of Latham&Watkins LLP. Both partners worked as lawyers for Latham&Watkins LLP for many years and have proven expertise in all areas of individual and collective employment law.
SERVICES
MÜLLER WITTEN advises German and international companies on all matters of individual and collective employment law as well as board members and executives on all questions relating to their employment.
In particular, our range of advisory services comprises the following:
- restructuring of companies, especially negotiations about balance of interests and social redundancy plan
- providing assistance with regard to company transactions, particularly in connection with transfers of
businesses, insourcing and outsourcing - due diligence in terms of employment law as well as drafting and negotiation of aspects of acquisition
agreements under employment law - organizing the use of external personnel, particularly through contracts for services, supply of temporary
staff or joint operation - continuous advice for enterprises on all questions of individual and collective employment law
- negotiation of shop agreements
- legal representation in proceedings ending in judgments or orders, especially legal assistance in connection
with proceedings concerning protection against unfair dismissal and disputes under the works constitution law - advice on all matters of company pension schemes, including advice on participation in VBL
- drafting of contracts
- advice on compliance matters
- advice on questions of co-determination
- organizing the international use of personnel, in particular in the case of assignments and matrix structures
We advise board members, managing directors and executives in connection with the following in particular:
- conclusion of employment/service contracts and arrangements concerning remuneration
- termination of employment relationships; this includes the negotiation of termination agreements,
arrangements concerning severance pay and early retirement schemes as well as representation
before the Labour Courts and other courts of law - in cases of liability; this includes advice on insurance cover, in particular if a D&O insurance is in place
If our clients need advice in other fields of law – such as tax law, company law or industrial property law – we will, upon request, cooperate closely with our partner law firms specializing in these fields. If cross-border matters are concerned, we can draw on a network of foreign law firms specializing in employment law.
We carry out training courses and in-house seminars for our clients on a regular basis.
REFERENCES
In the course of our careers as lawyers, we have gained extensive expertise in all areas of employment law, conducted several hundred legal proceedings and assisted in numerous transactions. In particular, we have advised the following sectors:
HEALTH CARE
Advising various private and public hospitals in the Greater Hamburg area in terms of employment law; providing advisory services to care facilities; giving legal advice to pharmaceutical companies.
BANKS AND FINANCIAL SERVICES PROVIDERS
Among other things, representation of several regional banks in proceedings against executives concerning protection against unfair dismissal.
PRESS AND ENTERPRISES SERVING IDEOLOGICAL PURPOSES
Continuous legal advice given to a large publishing house in Hamburg and to several enterprises in the music and theatre industry on all questions of employment law, taking special account of the partial exemption from co-determination; advising charitable enterprises.
OIL AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Continuous legal advice given to an international chemical group and to companies in the oil industry.
CAPITAL GOODS INDUSTRY
Providing advisory services to several companies in the aviation industry, among other things.
PUBLIC SERVICES
Legal advice and organization of privatizations; giving legal advice to various companies on participation in VBL.
CONSUMER GOODS AND TRADE
Legal advice given to several commercial enterprises, including advice on the law of commercial agency and on field service organization.
LOGISTICS
Continuous legal advice given to several logistics companies as regards cross-border assignment of personnel, among other things.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
RESEARCH ASSISTANTS AND TRAINEE LAWYERS
We are constantly looking for research assistants (m/f) who can support us alongside their studies or doctoral dissertation. We give trainee lawyers (m/f) the opportunity of getting to know the legal profession in a highly specialized boutique law firm.
In addition to above-average examination results, we expect you to have a strong inclination towards high-quality work on complex cases as well as a genuine interest in employment law.
You can send us your application in writing or by e-mail:
PARTNERSCHAFT VON RECHTSANWÄLTEN mbB
FACHANWÄLTE FÜR ARBEITSRECHT
NEUER WALL 38
20354 HAMBURG, GERMANY
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