Markus Kappenhagen has been advising companies in all aspects of labor and employment matters for more than two decades. His practice is particularly focused on complex reorganizations and restructurings, employment issues in mergers and acquisitions, business transfers, mass dismissals, negotiations with works councils and trade unions, the structuring of variable compensation plans, and the hiring of and separation from managerial employees.
Markus advises Magna, the car manufacturer and automotive supplier, in acquisition matters (labor) and restructurings. In 2012-2013, he was retained by a textile company when it closed down a plant with 300 employees, including the negotiations with unions and works councils. Furthermore, he advised the international hotel group Pandox when it acquired hotels in Germany. Prior to joining Jones Day, Markus worked for E-Plus on several employment transactions and for CapGemini in social plan negotiations regarding an intra-group spin-off.
Markus has written and edited numerous articles and presentations in German and English on employment law. He is a member of the Association of Employment Lawyers in the German Lawyers' Association.
担当案件
- May 18, 2017
European Labor & Employment Conference 2017 - May 10, 2017
Employment Law, The new Pay Transparency Act: Higher fairness by transparency? - 19 mai 2016
European Labor & Employment Conference 2016 - May 19, 2016
European Labor & Employment Conference 2016 - May 21, 2015
Jones Day’s European Labor & Employment Conference 2015: Managing Change Across Europe - February 16, 2015
New Rules in the German Social Security System for Inhouse Lawyers, German Association of HR Managers (BPM) - February 5-6, 2015
Labor law issues in M&A transactions, 3rd IBA European Corporate and Private M&A Conference - May 15, 2014
European Labor & Employment Conference 2014: Managing Today’s Employment Relationships Across Europe - November 29, 2013
Buying is fun, merging is hell, Rechtliche Herausforderungen der Post-Merger Integration, JDialog: Post-Merger Integration - April 18, 2013
Annual European Labor & Employment Conference - February 12, 2013
Demographic Changes and Labor Law, German Association of HR Managers (BPM) - October 4, 2012
German Labor & Employment Seminar
- Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht (Attorney Specializing in Labor Law, 1997); University of Muenster (Dr. jur. 1991); Kammergericht (Higher Regional Court) of Berlin (Second State Examination 1991); University of Munich and University of Muenster (First State Examination 1986)
- Germany
Named repeatedly in the German attorneys' ranking handbook JUVE (2011-2013)
Legal 500 Germany (2014)
Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers (2015, 2017): labor & employment Law
- English and German