Overview
Bettina Holzberger advises clients on all aspects of German employment law, with a focus on cross-border transactions and individual and collective employment law matters.
Her practice includes drafting service agreements for senior executives and managing directors, bonus plans, secondment as well as termination and settlement agreements, often in an international context. She also regularly represents employers before labor courts, particularly in dismissal protection claims and disputes concerning equal treatment, fixed-term employment, parental leave and vacation entitlements.
Bettina advises national and international companies on M&A transactions, including post-acquisition integration, works council structures, restructuring, mass dismissals and co-determination issues.
She also has special expertise in employee data protection and in obtaining residence and work permits for non-EU nationals.
Results
Bettina advised:
- GPP on acquiring a majority stake in Eutecma
- a client on the successful acquisition of 29 hotels in Germany and the Netherlands for a total value of US$260 million from a leading European hospitality company
- on co-determination issues and the legally required involvement of employees in relation to the transformation of an internationally operating health care stock company into a Societas Europaea (SE)
- a drug producer on the acquisition of significant parts of one of the worldwide leading pharmaceutical suppliers in a mixed share and asset deal
- an automotive supplier with more than 1,000 employees on its out-of-court restructuring that included a significant reduction of its workforce, inter alia, in conducting mass dismissal notifications, works council consultation and challenging social selection
- a US textile group in its acquisition of a French underwear company, with subsidiaries in Germany, from an investment fund, including post-acquisition counsel on drafting of a European-wide “one-fits-it-all” employment contract
- a leading German defense engineering group on various employment-related matters
