Almudena Álvarez

Spain, álvarez lentner

Andreea Suciu

Romania, Suciu – Employment and Data Protection Lawyers

Claude Bleser

Luxembourg, ADAM & BLESER

Hans Graf

Switzerland, Graf & Partner

Marijke Granier-Guillemarre

France, MGG LEGAL

Nicolas Roggel

Germany, ALTENBURG

Reinout Prakke

Netherlands, ARBOR Advocaten

Romain Adam

Luxembourg, ADAM & BLESER

Stephan Altenburg

Germany, ALTENBURG

Almudena Álvarez

Almudena Álvarez is Managing Partner of álvarez lentner – a Spanish boutique law firm which is exclusively specialized in providing Labor and Employment Law counsel to national and international companies.

Almudena advises clients on a national and international level on all personnel matters with a strong focus on litigation. She also has wide experience in restructuring processes and collective negotiation with trade unions.

Almudena is also a Professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid) where she teaches employment and labor litigation.

Specific skills:

  • Employment & Labor Litigation.
  • Restructurings & Reorganizations.

Languages:

  • Spanish
  • English
  • German
  • French

Professional memberships:

  • New York State Bar Association
  • Member of the Executive Committee of AIJA
  • Member of FORELAB

Education:

  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – J.D. 2007
  • Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – Political Science and Administration 2007
  • Universität zu Köln – ERASMUS Program 2006-2007
  • University of Miami – LL.M. U.S. & Transnational Law 2011
  • Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles de Madrid – Executive Program in Business Management and Strategic Planning 2017

 

 

Contact details

álvarez lentner

Serrano 93, 3º e – 28006 - Madrid

T: M: +34 609 345 327

E: almudena@alvarezlentner.com
W: www.alvarezlentner.com


Andreea Suciu

Andreea Suciu is the Managing Partner of Suciu – Employment and Data Protection Lawyers.

She founded the law firm after holding the position of Head of Employment & Pensions of the Romanian office and CEE Employment Law Practice Coordinator at one of the most prestigious German law firms.

Andreea’s experience encompasses many years of decision-making responsibilities in individual and collective employment matters for multinational companies from various industries. She is valued for the passion she puts into her work, and especially for her capability of bringing innovative solutions.

Andreea has written numerous articles and guides on employment law, such as the Littler Mendelson Guide to International Employment and Labor Law (Romanian Chapter), and co-authored the employment law chapter to a manual on contracts. She is ranked in the Legal 500 Guide.

Andreea is member of the editorial board of the Magazine “European Employment Law Cases” (EELC). She also acts as Mentor at the Founder Institute, the world’s premier pre-seed startup accelerator.

Specific skills:

  • Post-Merger Employee Integration
  • International Mobility
  • Digital Corporate Trainings
  • HR Health Checks
  • Restructuring & Redundancies
  • Collective Bargaining & Industrial Action

Languages:

  • Romanian
  • German
  • English

Professional memberships:

  • Bucharest Bar Association
  • EELA – European Employment Lawyers Association

Education:

  • M. “South East European Law and European Integration” – Karl-Franzens University, Faculty of Law, Graz, Austria (2008)
  • Bachelor Degree – Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Law, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2005)

Contact details

Suciu – Employment and Data Protection Lawyers

5 Nicolae Iorga Street, 2nd floor
010431 Bucharest
Romania

Dubai, UAE

T: RO +40 (0) 740 023 345 / UAE +971 (0) 585 183 710

E: andreea@suciuemployment.law
W: www.suciuemployment.law


Claude Bleser

Claude Bleser is a founding partner of ADAM & BLESER a Luxembourg law firm, established in 1996, whose activities cover all aspects of domestic and international civil, commercial and corporate law, with a special focus on Employment and Labour law.

He is a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1990 and served as a member of the Luxembourg Bar Council from 2002 to 2004.

Claude’s practice focuses on providing counsel on a wide range of Employment and Labour law for employees and employers in both the private and the public sector.

He also is a lecturer at the “Chambre des Métiers” (Chamber of Trade and Crafts) and with the “House of Training”, an organisation which aim is to provide continuing professional training to meet the needs of the Luxembourg economy.

Specific skills:

  • Employment Litigation
  • Individual & Collective Dismissals
  • Senior Executive Terminations & Disputes
  • Human Resource Policies

Languages:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Luxembourgish

Professional memberships:

  • Luxembourg Bar Association

Education:

University of Aix-Marseille, France – Master’s degree in Private Law, 1989

Contact details

ADAM & BLESER

5 boulevard Royal,
L-2449 Luxembourg

T: +352 47 24 24
F: +352 47 24 25

E: c.bleser@adam-bleser.lu
W: www.adam-bleser.lu


Hans Graf

Hans Graf is the Founding Partner and Managing Partner of Graf & Partner – a Swiss boutique law firm based in Zürich, which provides Employment and Labor Law counsel to national and international companies.

Hans has a wealth of experience advising on a wide range of Employment and Labor Law matters such as employment contracts, directives, executive contracts, incentive and benefit schemes, individual and collective dismissals, restructurings and reorganisations, as well as representation in court proceedings.

Specific skills:

  • Employment Litigation
  • Human Resource Policies
  • Individual & Collective Dismissals
  • Restructurings & Reorganizations

Languages:

  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish

Professional Memberships:

  • ABA – American Bar Association
  • New York Bar Association
  • Swiss Bar Association
  • Zurich Bar Association

Education:

  • University of Chicago Law School – LL.M 1991
  • University of Berne – PhD 1986
  • University of Berne – JD magna cum laude 1984

Contact details

Graf & Partner

Attorneys-at-Law
Seegartenstrasse 2
P.O. Box
CH-8022 Zürich
Switzerland

T: +41 44 221 17 17
F: +41 44 221 19 20

E: graf@grafundpartner.ch
W: www.grafundpartner.ch


Marijke Granier-Guillemarre

Marijke Granier-Guillemarre is the Founding Partner and Managing Partner of MGG LEGAL – a French boutique law firm which is exclusively specialized in Employment and Labor Law.

Marijke advises both national and multinational clients on a range of contentious and non-contentious Employment and Labor Law matters. Her practice is particularly well known for providing counsel on day-to-day employment matters (employment contracts, remuneration, pension plans, life insurance plans, termination) as well as collective employment matters – including working time, employee savings, and relations with staff representative bodies. In addition, Marijke also heads MGG Voltaire’s newly created German desk.

She is recognized internationally for her work in the field of French employment and labour law by leading international legal guides. In their words:

  • Marijke Granier-Guillemarre demonstrates a “real command of the international environment”
                         – Legal 500 Paris 2016
  • “Everybody agrees on her competence and ability to understand and analyse a problem and then propose a business-oriented solution.”
    “Her professional rigour, responsiveness and proximity to the business world have allowed us to successfully overcome the various legal hurdles that we had to cross.”
    “She is our legal business partner and is highly valued by our legal department.”
    “She thinks with the business in terms of solutions, rather than just throwing legal opinions at us as to what we cannot do”
                         – International Law Office – Client Choice Awards 2014

Marijke has also been recognized for her work by the Expert Guides Women in Business Law report as well as Best Lawyers.

She regularly publishes articles on employment law in addition to giving lectures for Montpellier University’s Employment Relations Practices Masters.

Specific skills:

  • Human Resource Policies
  • Transfers of People
  • Transfers of Business
  • Restructurings & Reorganisation

Spoken languages:

  • French
  • German
  • English

Professional Memberships:

  • AVOSIAL – French Employment Law Working Group
  • ANDRH – French HR Working Group
  • EELA – European Employment Lawyers Association
  • Paris Bar Association

Education:

  • University of Montpellier/Paris II – Masters in Employment Law 1997
  • University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne – LLM 1996
  • University of Cologne Germany – LLM 1994

Contact details

MGG LEGAL

45 avenue Victor Hugo
75116 Paris
France

T: +33 1 83 64 56 42
F: +33 1 83 64 56 41

E: mgg@mgglegal.com
W: www.mgglegal.com


Nicolas Roggel

Nicolas Roggel is Partner of ALTENBURG Fachanwälte für Arbeitsrecht – a German boutique law firm which is exclusively specialized in providing Labor and Employment Law counsel to national and international businesses.

Nicolas advises clients on a national and international level on all personnel matters relating to corporate transactions, in particular employment contracts of employees and managers and dismissal proceedings, social plans, restructuring and reorganization.

Nicolas regularly speaks on a range of German employment and labor law topics at professional conferences and seminars.

Specific skills:

  • HR Aspects of Corporate Transactions• Labor Litigation
  • Restructurings & Reorganisations
  • Transfer of Business Across Borders

Spoken Languages:

  • German
  • English

Professional memberships:

  • Member of the employment-law working group in the German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltsverein)

Education:

  • Christian Albrecht University of Kiel – J.D. 2000
  • OLG Bremen – Masters 2003
  • Certified attorney of Employment & Labor Law 2006

Contact details

ALTENBURG

Fachanwälte für Arbeitsrecht
Behrenstraße 18
10117 Berlin
Germany

T: +49 (30) 983 20 81-32
F: +49 (30) 983 20 81-50

E: n.roggel@altenburg.net
W: www.altenburg.net


Reinout Prakke

Reinout Prakke is a Founding Partner of ARBOR Advocaten – a boutique law firm exclusively specialized in Dutch Employment and Labor Law.

Reinout has a wealth of experience providing counsel to both national and multinational organisation on a range of Employment and Labor Law matters which may impact their business. In particular, his practice in known for its work advising on reorganisation, also at the international level, as well as employment litigation, and negotiating collective labour agreements. He also acts as a deputy judge at the Den Haag district court

Specific skills:

  • Collective Bargaining
  • Human Resource Policies
  • Outsourcing
  • Reorganisations & Restructurings
  • Senior Executives

Languages:

  • English
  • Dutch
  • German

Professional memberships:

  • Amsterdam Employment Lawyers Association
  • Dutch Bar Association
  • EELA – European Employment Lawyers Association
  • VAAN – Dutch Employment Lawyers Association

Education:

  • Alpen Adria Klagenfurt University – J.D. 1985
  • Amsterdam University – Masters 1991
  • Amsterdam University – PALA Degree 2001

Contact details

ARBOR Advocaten

Oranje Nassaulaan 53
1075 AK Amsterdam

Postbus 7912
1008 AK Amsterdam
The Netherlands

T: +31 020 30 52 04 2
F: +31 020 30 52 07 9

E: prakke@arboradvocaten.nl
W: www.arboradvocaten.nl


Romain Adam

Romain Adam is a founding partner of ADAM & BLESER a Luxembourg law firm, established in 1996, whose activities cover all aspects of domestic and international civil, commercial and corporate law, with a special focus on Employment and Labour law.

Romain acts for both corporate and individual clients and has in recent years spent much time advising senior executives.

Romain also has significant experience of negotiating collective bargaining agreements and social plans.

Romain has been recognized as one of the Leaders in his field by one of the top independent international legal guides:

“Romain Adam of Adam & Bleser is one of the leading labour litigators in the country and almost exclusively represents employees both in settlement negotiations and in-court proceedings. “He is a very experienced lawyer in this regard and does a lot of big settlement cases for former CEOs”.

– Chambers Europe 2019.

Specific skills:

  • Employment Litigation
  • Individual & Collective Dismissals
  • Senior Executive Terminations & Disputes
  • Human Resource Policies
  • Reorganizations & Restructurings
  • Trade Union Negotiations

Languages:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Luxembourgish

Professional memberships:

  • Luxembourg Bar Association
  • ELSA – Employment Law Specialists Association Luxembourg, Director
  • ALDE – Association luxembourgeoise pour le Droit de l’Environnement

Education:

University of Aix-Marseille, France – Master’s degree in Private Law, 1988

Contact details

ADAM & BLESER

5 boulevard Royal,
L-2449 Luxembourg

T: +352 47 24 24
F: +352 47 24 25

E: r.adam@adam-bleser.lu
W: www.adam-bleser.lu


Stephan Altenburg

Stephan Altenburg is a Founding Partner of ALTENBURG Fachanwälte für Arbeitsrecht – a German boutique law firm which is exclusively specialized in providing Labor and Employment Law counsel to national and international businesses.

Stephan is particularly noted at the national and international levels for his work advising clients on all Human Resource aspects of corporate transactions and in particular with Employment Agreements, Collective Agreements, Rights of Establishment, Restucturings and Reorganisations.

He is recognized by some of the leading international legal guides who have quoted competitors stating that Stephan Altenburg is “professional, a real team player” (JUVE 2016) and “competent, committed, vast know-how” (JUVE 2015). Stephan has also been recognized by Legal 500 for Employment and Labor Law counsel provided on important transactions in Germany.

Stephan often speaks on a range of German employment and labour law topics at professional conferences and seminars.

Specific skills:

  • Compliance
  • HR Aspects of Corporate Transactions
  • Labour Litigation
  • Restructurings & Reorganisations
  • Transfer of Business Across Borders

Languages:

  • German
  • English

Professional memberships:

  • Member of the German Labor Court Association
    (Deutscher Arbeitsgerichtsverband)
  • The employment-law working group in the German Bar Association
    (Deutscher Anwaltverein)
  • The Association of German Jurists
    (Deutscher Juristentag)
  • The German Media Law Association
    (Deutscher Medienrechtstag)

Education:

  • OLG Munich – Masters 1997
  • University of Munich Ludwig-Maximilians J.D. 1994

Contact details

ALTENBURG

Fachanwälte für Arbeitsrecht

Unterer Anger 3
80331 Munich

T: +49 89 540 42 52 20
F: +49 89 540 42 52 52

E: s.altenburg@altenburg.net
W: www.altenburg.net