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CMS

Employment

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About

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Key facts

  • European employment team counts over 450 lawyers/partners
  • Round 120 employment partners in Europe alone
  • Sector focused expertise
  • Multi-jurisdiction capabilities, including CEE
  • Vast experience and local expertise

What we can do for you?

  • Recruitment and terminations
  • Reorganisations and redundancies
  • Transfer of undertaking
  • Trade unions
  • Internal investigations
  • Employment advice in corporate transactions
  • GDPR
  • New forms of employment
  • Employee mobility
  • Immigration
  • Employment litigation
  • HR documentation​

What we offer?

  • Business style legal advice
  • Support of our tax, corporate and regulatory lawyers
  • Free knowledge sharing (Law-Now, webinars, newsletters, guides)
  • Feedback opportunities
  • Tailor-made training programs and seminars

Industries (1)

  • Financial Services, Energy, Consumer Products, Lifesciences, TMT, Real Estate & Construction, Hotels & Leisure and Projects

Chambers Review

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Employment - Europe-wide

Band 1

What the Team is Known For

CMS has an expansive network across Europe, with strong teams in Austria, Germany, France, the UK and Iberia. The law firm has a broad offering, including non-contentious transactional, compliance, restructuring and redundancy matters. It is also active in individual and collective disputes matters relating to employment tribunals and works councils. Clients include large corporates from diverse sectors, such as media, consumer goods, technology and energy, as well as service industry clients.

Notable practitioners

Daniela Krömer in Vienna and Gaël Chuffart in Brussels co-head the firm's emplyment and pensions practice.

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Strengths

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  • CMS always offers a goal-oriented approach and quick analysis of the topic.

    Employment respondentEurope

  • They understand the legal and commercial aspects of employment-related issues and are able to cut through complex layers to find simple solutions.

    Employment respondentEurope

  • The law firm carries out thoughtful analysis of issues, risks and outcomes

    Employment respondentEurope

  • The team at CMS are very skilled and have a problem-solving approach. Even with difficult matters, the lawyers always find an easy way to fix them. They can provide outside the box solutions when it is needed by the client.

    Employment respondentEurope

  • One of CMS's strengths is the ability to propose a comprehensive analysis and design global strategies.

    Employment respondentEurope

Members

Provided by CMS

  • Jens Winter

  • Björn Gaul

  • Gerlind Wisskirchen

  • Katarzyna Dulewicz

  • Susana Afonso

  • Laurent Marquet de Vasselot

  • Christian Gersbach

  • Ksenija Ivetić Marlović

  • Nicolas de Sevin

  • César Navarro

  • Lakshanthi Fernando

  • Vincent Delage

  • Katja van Kranenburg - Hanspians

  • Carsten Domke

  • Sophie Marquet

  • Gaël Chuffart

  • Raphaël Bordier

  • Caroline Froger-Michon

    Head of Department

  • Fabrizio Spagnolo

  • Afonso Susana

  • Christopher Jordan

    Head of Department

  • Gabriella Ormai

  • Alison Woods

  • Bernhard Hainz

  • Christoph Wolf

  • Sofia Mateus

  • Andrea Potz

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