Previously, advice and consultation has been given to businesses in the following sectors:

The lawyers have been entrusted with the following projects:

Restructuring and Transactions		Employment Law in Practice		Special Consultancy Services
Advice on acquisition of businesses (also of companies that went bankrupt), in particular involving questions on the transfer of businesses Counseling on mergers and spin-offs Changes in operations (shut-down and relocation of businesses and parts thereof) and extensive reduction of staff or mass dismissals including negotiations with the works council on reconciliation of interests and social plan Advice on privatization in the public health sector		Dismissals and negotiations on termination of employment (employees and legal representatives) Warning letters Assignment of different jobs Post-contractual competition bans Co-determination rights of the works council Sham self-employment Employee leasing / temporary employment Working time regulations Variable compensation plans Law on commercial agents		Due Diligence Reviews followed by advice on drafting agreements (e.g. provisions on transfer of employees in acquisition agreements) Advice on setting up a business in Germany Examination of effects of corporate processes on employment law matters (e.g. effects on a co-determined supervisory board, establishment of general works councils and of a central works council of affiliated companies) Agreements on transfer of staff Secondment of employees to foreign companies