CMS, Employment | Chambers Europe Profile

About

Provided by CMS

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

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 disputes matters relating to employment tribunals. Clients include large corporates from diverse sectors, such as media, consumer goods, technology and energy, as well as service industry clients.

Notable practitioners

Global co-heads of the law firm's employment and pensions group Christopher Jordan and Caroline Froger-Michon are based in Cologne and Paris respectively.

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Work Highlights

Provided by CMS

CMS advised KSBG and STEAG on their sale of all shares in STEAG to Asterion Industrial Partners, including related pension and employment advice.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

The whole employment team at CMS has great expertise in international work.

Employment respondent
Europe

Their advice demonstrates a high level of attention to detail overlaid with an astute strategic overview.

Employment respondent
Europe

CMS has a very professional and experienced team, you can feel the excellent team spirit as well as high level of collaboration and joint focus on customer needs and solutions.

Employment respondent
Europe

All of CMS's solutions offer an eminently practical perspective. It also has top-level professionals.

Employment respondent
Europe

The whole employment team at CMS has great expertise in international work.

Employment respondent
Europe

Their advice demonstrates a high level of attention to detail overlaid with an astute strategic overview.

Employment respondent
Europe

CMS has a very professional and experienced team, you can feel the excellent team spirit as well as high level of collaboration and joint focus on customer needs and solutions.

Employment respondent
Europe

All of CMS's solutions offer an eminently practical perspective. It also has top-level professionals.

Employment respondent
Europe