For Employers
- Companies
- Associations
- Private non-profit institutions
- Public employers
For Supervisory boards, Shareholders, Managers, Founders and Investors
stands for
over two decades of experience in advising employers of all sizes
- International groups
- DAX-40 groups and other DAX companies
- SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises)
- Venture capital based companies
- Start-up companies (founders and investors from inception)
regarding issues on a wide range
- in projects and project management
- by ongoing long-term support in everyday business
- in internal conflicts and negotiations
- in important court proceedings, also in precedent setting proceedings, in all instances, before the labor courts, social courts and civil courts
with the highest quality of professionalism and advocacy
- based on work in leading international business law firms (> 12 years)
- in successful nationwide employment law boutique firms (> 11 years)
- recognized as a leading employer advisor in the leading attorney rankings (> 15 years)
with focus on client work and client interests.
- by providing advice at top partner level
- as a solo attorney
- with efficient digital law firm structures.
Prof. Dr. Anja Mengel LL.M. (Columbia/NYC)
has been admitted to the bar as an attorney-at-law in Germany for over 23 years and specializes in:
- Employment Law
- Social Security Law
- Labor regulatory law and compliance.
- Studies of Law University of Cologne 1988 – 1994
- Diplôme en Droit Université d’Auvergne 1991 – 1992
- First State Examination Higher Regional Court of Cologne June 1994
- Doctorate (Ph. D.) University of Cologne (Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. Peter Hanau) 1994 – 1996
- Master of Laws (LL.M.) Columbia University New York City 1995 – 1996
- Dissertation on Transformations in Employment and Labor Law C. F. Müller Verlag 1996
- Legal clerkship Kammergericht Berlin 1996 – 1998
- Supreme Court of Israel Jerusalem 1998
- Labor Court Berlin 1998
- Second State Examination Higher Regional Court (Chamber Court) Berlin November 1998
- Admission to the German Bar March 1999
- Admitted as a Certified Attorney for Emplyoment and Labor Law September 2002
- Admitted to the Higher Regional Court (Chamber Court) of Berlin November 2004
- Lecturers Bucerius Law School Hamburg 2000-2017
- Honorary Professor Bucerius Law School Hamburg March 2017.
Professional Legal Services / Products
For Employers
Employment contract law
- Standard employment contracts and individual adaptations
- Employee data protection notices
- Notification documents
- Supplementary agreements e.g. on:
- Mobile work / Work from Home
- Company car
- Variable remuneration / ESOP / VESOP
- Suspensions/sabbaticals
- Secondments
Other agreements
- Freelance contracts
- Consulting contracts
- Employee leasing contracts
- Contracts for the deployment of external personnel
- Contracts for work and services
Human Resources Management
- HR concepts and guidelines:
- Mobile work national/international
- Anti-discrimination prevention
- Anti-corruption prevention
- Codes of ethics
- Company pension plans – concepts and contracts
- Warnings / Low performance management
- Transfers /Secondments
- Change notices
- Regulatory consulting:
- Employee data protection
- Occupational health and safety
- Employee leasing
- Appointment / dismissal of representatives and supplementary agreements
- Data protection officer
- Anti-financial crime officer
- Internal Investigations
Works Council relations
- Advice on information rights and co-determination rights
- Works Council agreements
- Negotiations with Works Councils and their advisors
- Conciliation proceedings
- Support in Works Council elections
- Review and design of restructuring measures
- Resolution proceedings with Works Councils before the labor courts
- Expert legal opinions and advice on Works Council members’ remuneration
Project services
- Expert legal opinions and structural analyses
- Expert Opinion on Employee Status / Self-Employed Status (Social Security Law)
- Review and design of operating models
- Internal Investigations
- Review and design of business transfers
- Review and design of other restructurings
- Review and structuring of SE conversions
- HR Audit (Standard terms of employment and/or HR Compliance)
Termination of employment relationships
- Concepts for entrepreneurial decisions (for terminations and restructurings due to business/operational reasons)
- Procedures for approval by public authorities
- Maternity leave
- Parental leave
- Severely disabled persons and persons with equal rights.
- Mass dismissal notices
- Notices of termination
- Notices for realease from work duties / garden leave
- Termination agreements / settlement agreements
- Reconciliation of interests and social compensation plans (drafts, consultation, negotiation)
- Special employment/transfer companies
Court proceedings (labor courts, social courts, administrative courts)
- Dismissal protection claims
- Actions for damages
- Defense agaisnt any other employee claims
- Employee/exempt status administrative and court proceedings
- Actions for substitution of consent by public authorities
- Works Council proceedings / resolution proceedings in labor courts
For Supervisory boards, Shareholders, Managers, Founders and Investors
Service (employment) contracts / Corporate law / Law of private associations
- Managing director employment contracts
- Board member employment contracts
- Rules of procedure and management guidelines
- Social security / social security exemption for shareholder-managing directors
- Non-competition agreements
- Notices of termination / Termination agreements
- Liability / Damages litigation
- Insurance (D&O)