Elke Duden
Europe Guide 2024
Band 3 : Employment
Band 3
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Provided by Elke Duden
Career
Elke is a partner in the Employment, Pensions & Benefits practice, where she heads the Pensions practice.
She deals with all aspects of employment law and occupational pension law. She advises on day to day HR issues, employee incentive schemes, HR restructuring, employment litigation, health & safety, senior executives. Her practice concentrates on two specific niches: (i) collective labour issues of large corporate reorganisations; and (ii) specific projects in the area of pensions (i.e. merger and goverance of pan-european pension funds, restructuring or winding down of pension schemes, complex litigation).
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Elke Duden is particularly known for advising on pensions law matters. In addition, she assists clients with collective dismissals as part of restructuring processes, as well as assisting with the negotiations over collective bargaining agreements and discussions about flexible working hours.