Seitz

Managing Partners: Dr. Stefan Seitz, Dr. Marc Werner, Dr. Thomas Kania, Dr. Kathrin Bürger, Dr. Daniel Hund, Christina Kamppeter, Dr. Wolfgang Lipinski, Dr. Stefan Lochner, Dr. Christopher Melms (Employment), Dr. Wolfgang Schüler, Dr. Daniel Grewe, Jochen Markgraf (Corporate), Sebastian Benz, Nils Kröber (Tax)

Number of partners: 39

Number of lawyers: 140

Languages: English, German, French, Farsi/Persian, Italian, Spanish

Firm Overview:

Seitz, founded in 1997, is one of the leading German commercial law firms and is one of the market leaders in employment law in Germany. At its four offices in Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt am Main and Düsseldorf, Seitz advises international groups, DAX companies, family businesses, medium-sized companies as well as top athletes and well-known personalities from politics, business and society with around 140 lawyers in the areas of employment law, corporate law and tax. These teams are complemented by Seitz experts in the fields of data protection and seitz.digital. Internationally, Seitz is networked with leading independent law firms such as LAW and Innangard.

Main Areas of Practice:

Employment:

25 Partners, 21 Salary Partners and Counsel, 4 Of Counsel, 39 (Senior) Associates

■ Ford: US automobile manufacturer relies on Seitz for restructuring

■ BayWa: Restructuring and employment law reorganization

■ Barmenia.Gothaer: Post-merger integration, ongoing advice on all labor law issues, support with digitalization projects

■ Lufthansa Group on international restructuring project, ca. 50.000 affected employees, negotiation of collective agreements with works councils and unions, litigation in Labour Courts

■ Alstom Group on large restructuing project after the merger with Bombardier

■ Stellantis Group on several restructuring projects in Germany and post-merger integration, negotiation of collective agreements with works councils and unions, negotiation of new pension scheme, litigation in Labour Courts

■ GALERIA Karstadt Kaufhof on several restructuring projects, including Germany's larges insolvency proceedings 2021, 2023 and 2024, litigation in Labour Courts

■ Jabil on post-meger integration of German entities acquired from Johnson&Johnson, closure of a plant, different projects re. the harmonization of legal standards Harmonisierungsmaßnahmen, the negotiation of collective agreement for the historic merger of Karstadt and Kaufhof

■ TK Elevator on integration and restructuring projects after the acquisitaion by Advent and Cinven, egotiation of collective agreements with works councils and unions

Key Clients: Barmenia.Gothaer, Barry Callebaut, BayWa, BioNTech, Ford, FTI, Munich Re, Nestlé, Tesla, Deutsche Lufthansa, Stellantis, Alstom, GALERIA Karstadt Kaufhof, Esprit, DuMont et al.

Contact: Dr. Stephan Pötters

Tel: +49 221 5 69 60-280

Email: [email protected]

Corporate:

8 Partners, 6 Salary Partners and Counsel, 17 (Senior) Associates

■ Representation of Deutsche Telekom AG in its joint venture with Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH

■ Representation of REWE group in the acquisition of logistics companies

■ Representation of Cannamedical GmbH in its financing by Orkila

■ Representation of shareholders of Anedis Group and of SSF in their sales to private equity firm Deutsche Beteiligungs AG

■ Representation of NRW.BANK in several investments in startup companies

■ Several high volume D&O litigation cases

Key Clients: Deutsche Telekom, Bayer, REWE, Total, NRW.BANK, AXA, Uniklinik Köln, Xerox

Contact: Dr. Daniel Grewe

Tel: +49 221 5 69 60-190

Email: [email protected]

Tax:

6 Partners, 8 Counsel, 1 Of Counsel, 4 (Senior) Associates

■ Representations of various entrepreneurs, companies, investment funds and private high-net-worth individuals and sportsmen in ongoing tax and other legal matters

■ Representation of Wolfgang Grenke (Grenke AG) in ongoing tax and other legal matters

■ Representation of Jürgen Harder (Jürgen Harder) Group, in ongoing tax and other legal matters

■ Representation of Christoph Bertsch Group in ongoing tax and other legal matters

■ Representations of various companies, company representatives and private individuals (e.g. Fabian Thylmann, Felix Sturm) in criminal tax proceedings

Key Clients: Wolfgang Grenke, Christoph Bertsch Group, Jürgen Harder Group, Radiologie Holding Group

Contact: Nils Kröber

Tel: +49 221 5 69 60-300

Email: [email protected]

Data Protection, IT, Digitisation:

3 Partners, 1 Salary Partner, 3 (Senior) Associates (also part of other practice groups)

■ Advise on electronic signatures/digital contracting processes for a multinational FMCG producer (EUR 6+ billion revenue)

■ GDPR implementation project and advise on data protection matters for leading international automotive supplier (EUR 6+ billion revenue)

■ Representation of international producer of healthcare products in IT outsourcing project

Key Clients: GALERIA Karstadt Kaufhof, Stellantis, Zur Rose / DocMorris, RGF Staffing

Contact: Dr. Stephan Pötters, LLM

Tel: +49 221 5 69 60-525

Email: [email protected]