Alexander Finzel

Admitted to bar in 2020 Senior Associate

Areas of focus

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Advice and support for employers, employees, works council bodies, and executives


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Focus areas in individual labor law: Issues concerning service and employment contracts, the drafting of all agreements under labor law, issues concerning the Evidence Act, Covid-19 (esp. short-time work), working conditions (introduction of up-to-date remuneration systems, the flexibilization of working time models, the drafting of complex regulations on other working conditions), employer’s references, termination of employment, warnings, actions for protection against dismissal, disputes with individual employees, compliance, advice on issues concerning occupational integration management


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Focus areas in collective labor law: Works council disputes, works agreements, proceedings to challenge works council elections, disputes with works councils on the scope of co-determination rights, negotiations with works councils, conciliation board proceedings


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Advice with regard to labor law in all forms of corporate restructuring or reorganization, transfer of business, outsourcing, acquisition of companies, staff reduction, plant closures and relocations, operational changes, reconciliation of interests, and social plan


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General civil law: General contract law, cooperation agreements, General Terms and Conditions, contractual disputes, incl. in the fields of sales contract law, service contract law, and insurance contract law, law on warranty for defects, tort liability, enforcement of or defense against claims asserted in and out of court


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Corporations and partnerships: Advice and representation in connection with formations, changes and restructurings, support and disputes in the law of partnerships and corporations, Shareholder disputes, board and management relations, directors’ and officers’ liability


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Litigation before state courts and alternative dispute resolution


Studies and practical work

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Studies of law at the University of Passau (Germany)


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Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich with practical work at a law firm specializing in labor law in Passau


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Since 2020 with Kempter, Gierlinger und Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB, Munich

Languages: German and English


Selected mandates

Individual and collective labor law

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Advising numerous large and small companies on designing new labor law agreements that meet the requirements of the new regulations in the Evidence Act that have been in force since the beginning of August 2022


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Advising several companies on the design of warnings and notices of termination


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Advising and representing several companies in the course of dismissal protection proceedings


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Advising and representing a company in connection with the closure of a site, including the associated reduction in staff and the conduct of dismissal protection proceedings


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Advising several companies and works council bodies on the design of works agreements


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Advising several companies on works council participation and on the implementation of disputes under works constitution law and individual labor law


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Advising several companies on the implementation of a works council election


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Advising and representing a company in the conduct of proceedings to challenge a works council election


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Advising and representing a company in the defense against proceedings to challenge a works council election


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Advising and representing a company in the implementation of resolution proceedings under works constitution law


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Advising and representing several employees in the course of dismissal protection proceedings


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Advising and representing an executive employee upon his departure from the employment relationship


General civil law

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Preparation of cooperation agreements for larger medium-sized companies


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Drafting general terms and conditions for several larger medium-sized companies


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Creation of a code of conduct for a larger medium-sized company


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Successful defense against unjustified claims (e.g. against warning letters in connection with so-called “Google Fonts”)


Corporations and partnerships

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Advice and representation in changes and restructurings of a large medium-sized company


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Supporting a company in holding a supervisory board meeting as well as an annual general meeting


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Preparation of shareholders’ meeting resolutions