Dr. Andreas Wurm

Labor law: employment contracts, variable remuneration systems, employee shareholdings, labor law aspects in connection with the acquisition and sale of companies as well as the transformation of companies (including mergers, demergers), transfers of undertakings, works council elections, co-determination of the works council, works agreements, termination of employment relationships

Company law: the acquisition and sale of companies and company participations, joining and leaving companies, transformations of companies (including mergers, demergers, changes of legal form), partnership agreements as well as memoranda and articles of association (including professional particularities), rules of procedure, shareholder disputes, directors’ and officers’ liability

Interface labor law & corporate law: the acquisition and sale of companies, the transformation of companies, matters relating to board members and managing directors, the classification of shareholder-managing directors under social security law

Cooperation agreements: marketing contracts, service contracts

Litigation: labor court proceedings (dismissal protection proceedings, resolution proceedings under works constitution law), conciliation board proceedings, civil court proceedings (particularly directors’ & officers’ liability (D&O), shareholder disputes, and professional liability) as well as arbitration proceedings (also as an arbitrator)

Studies of law at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, the Paris Lodron University Salzburg, and the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich

First and Second State Examination in Law in Munich

Doctorate in transformation law with Prof. Dr. Jens Petersen at the University of Potsdam (Dr. iur.)

Lawyer specializing in labor law and lawyer specializing in commercial and corporate law

Noerr Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater Wirtschaftsprüfer (Munich)

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP (London)

Admission to the Munich Bar

Kempter, Gierlinger und Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB (Munich)

Member of the Corporate Law Committee of the German Federal Bar (Berlin)

Advising a medium-sized company in drafting employment contracts, works council participations, and works agreements

Advising a medium-sized company in designing employee participation schemes

Advising a shareholder-managing director with regard to his status under social security law and assisting him in the proceedings for the establishment of his insurance status

Advising a group of companies on the merger-related transfer of employment relationships, including the information of the industrial relations bodies and their staff

Advising a group of companies on the merger of several subsidiaries and the resulting transfer of employment relationships, the standardization of working conditions with due regard to circumstances under collective bargaining law and works constitution law, including the information of the industrial relations bodies and their staff

Advising a group of companies on the transfer of employment relationships due to a spin-off and the formation of a joint operation, including the involvement of the industrial relations bodies and information of their staff

Advising a group of companies on the transfer of operations caused by various spin-offs, including the drafting of the required information letters to the members of staff

Advising and representing a medium-sized company on staff downsizing, including negotiations on the reconciliation of interests and social compensation plans as well as dismissal protection proceedings

Advising and representing a group of companies on staff downsizing and the implementation of proceedings before conciliation boards as well as decision-making procedures under the Works Constitution Act

Advising a medium-sized company on the introduction of short-time work in various departments

Advising a medium-sized company on the restructuring of its sales force

Advising a medium-sized company on the establishment of a group works council

Representing a company in contesting a works council election

Advising and representing a managing director in the enforcement of a variable remuneration claim

Advising and representing a senior executive on leaving his employment

Representing an employee in dismissal protection proceedings

Advising and representing the majority shareholder of a large medium-sized industrial company in connection with its sale

Advising and representing the sole shareholder in connection with the sale of his medium-sized company

Advising and representing the majority shareholder of a family business in connection with the sale of her shareholding

Advising and representing a limited liability company in connection with the acquisition and subsequent sale of a corporate shareholding

Advising and representing the purchaser in connection with the acquisition of a company

Advising a company on the transfer of a business division

Advising and representing a large medium-sized company in connection with the establishment of a group structure

Advising a group on the merger of group companies

Advising a medium-sized company on the formation of a foreign subsidiary

Advising foreign investors on the establishment of a distribution company in Germany

Advice on the conversion of a civil law association (GbR) into a limited partnership with a private limited company as a general partner (GmbH & Co. KG)

Advice on the conversion of a sole tradership into a limited liability company (GmbH)

Advice on the conversion of a civil law association (GbR) into a limited liability partnership company

• Advising and representing a lawyer in connection with their withdrawal from a law firm

Advising a medium-sized family business (GmbH & Co. KG) on the revision of its Memorandum and Articles of Association

Advising a shareholder on succession planning

Advising the shareholders of a limited liability company (GmbH) on the structuring of an employee participation scheme under company law

Advising and representing a shareholder in internal company disputes

Preparation of rules of procedure for the board of directors of a public limited company

Advice on the establishment of an advisory council

Advising and representing a board of directors in the defense against claims for damages (D&O proceedings)

Advising and representing a managing director in the defense against claims for damages (D&O proceedings)

Advising and representing a public limited company on the dismissal and termination of a board member as well as on the assertion of claims for damages against the board member

Advising and representing a service company in the drafting and negotiation of cooperation agreements and marketing agreements

Advising a medium-sized company on the drafting of service contracts

Representing a lawyer in the defense against claims for damages (advisor liability)

Representing a tax advisor in the defense against claims for damages (advisor liability)