White & Case
  Klaus Sturm
Counsel
Berlin

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Practice Experience
Klaus Sturm advises companies on all aspects of individual and collective labor and employment law.

He specializes in corporate restructuring, including all the collective labor law issues arising in connection with reconciliation of interests, social-plans, conciliation committees or co-determination law. Klaus Sturm is regularly asked to represent employers' interests as a member of conciliation boards, in court proceedings under works council law as well as in related mass-dismissal proceedings before the lower courts and the German Federal Labor Court.

He frequently represents and advises insolvency administrators in insolvency related proceedings in or out of court, in particular in unfair dismissal proceedings and in negotiations with works councils. He also focuses on the labor law aspects of M&A transactions.

Bars and Courts
Labor Lawyer, 1996
Rechtsanwalt, 1993

Education
Second State Exam, Higher Regional Court of Berlin, 1993
First State Exam, Free University of Berlin, 1990

Professional Associations and Memberships
Berlin Law Society

Publications
"Bullying at work: How to react correctly as an employer (Mobbingvorwürfen richtig begegnen)," Personal-Magazin, Page 38, 2004

Languages
German
English

Citizenship
Germany