Key Contacts

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

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)

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

Elika Schneider

Dr. Elika Schneider 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.

She has extensive experience in advising and representing national and international companies in all areas of individual and collective employment law. One focus of her work is on supporting start-up and scale-up companies in all employment law matters. In addition, she advises companies in particular on restructurings and all matters relating to works constitution law and represents companies in labor court proceedings.

Dr. Elika Schneider is a specialist lawyer for employment law. After studying in Mannheim and Oslo and working for Porsche, Zalando and the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, followed by her doctorate in 2017, she began her career as a lawyer at ALTENBURG in 2018. She has been working in the Berlin office ever since.

Specific skills:

• Advising Start-up and Scale-up Companies
• Restructuring
• Works Constitution Law
• Labor Litigation

Spoken Languages:

• German
• English
• Farsi

Education:

• Legal studies in Mannheim and Oslo
• Legal clerkship in Berlin

Eva Stark

Dr. Eva Stark 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.

She advises companies on all aspects of employment law, in particular in the area of employee data protection, and has extensive experience in restructuring and negotiations with works councils.

Dr. Eva Stark is the author of numerous specialist articles and regularly gives lectures on employment law topics. After studying in Passau and completing her legal clerkship in Munich and Sydney, she obtained her doctorate in 2018. She works as a lawyer in the Hamburg office of the law firm ALTENBURG.

Specific skills:

• Employee Data Protection
• Labor Litigation and negotiations

• Restructuring

Spoken Languages:

• German
• English
• Spanish

Education:

• Legal studies in Passau
• Legal clerkship in Munich and Sydney

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

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

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

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