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Alexander Oberreit

Alexander Oberreit

BRL BOEGE ROHDE LUEBBEHUESEN · Germany
BRL BOEGE ROHDE LUEBBEHUESEN
Labour and Employment · Germany
Specific Experience

• Individual and collective employment law
• Insolvency labour and employment law
• Litigation in the areas of employment and civil law
• Labour law compliance

Background

Alexander Oberreit is a lawyer, specialist lawyer for employment law and Certified Compliance Officer (CCO). He is a Partner at BRL BOEGE ROHDE LUEBBEHUESEN since 2015. At the Hamburg office, he heads the Employment Law Department including 7 lawyers. Alexander Oberreit has numerous years of experience in the restructuring and reorganization of companies and in advising on transactions. As an expert in insolvency labour law, he advises employers and insolvency administrators in important insolvency procedures, in particular with regard to restructurings and to negotiations of collective reorganisation agreements. Alexander Oberreit is a lecturer for insolvency labour law at the University of Münster and for employment law at the European Media and Business Academy Hamburg.

Publications

“Erfolgreicher Betriebserwerb aus Krise und Insolvenz – arbeitsrechtliche Besonderheiten und Gestaltungsoptionen”, in Service-Seiten Finanzen Steuern Recht, Hamburg 2014

Services

• Restructuring/reorganisation of companies
• Advice in all questions of corporate co-determination according to the Co-determination and One-Third participation Act
• Representing employers in corporate constitutional and collective bargaining matters
• Legal support in transactional matters
• Executive and service contracts (drafting, advice in the course of termination, director’s liability)
• Social insurance status proceedings (social insurance obligation for shareholders, managing directors, bogus self-employed persons)
• Design of employment and target agreements
• Design of working time structures, remuneration schemes, company conduct guidelines and company integration management (BEM)
• Assisting with all issues of employee data protection, temporary employment, posting of workers and occupational pensions
• Litigation (labour and regional labour courts, Federal labour court, all other regional and higher regional courts)

Main Strengths

• “Business thinking”, as equivalent to crafting expedient and technically efficient solutions
• Integrated solutions involving a multidisciplinary consulting approach if desired

Typical Clients

• Medium-sized companies and familyrun businesses
• Large industrial, retail and service enterprises
• Public sector
• Hospital Groups
• Logistics Groups

Key Clients in 2020

• Automotive retail: works closure of five outlets in conformity with codetermination and dismissal protection regulations
• Printing industry: introducing a Windows standard client at the German companies of a multinational in compliance with codetermination law
• Retail: sale of business units to a buyer during ongoing insolvency proceedings
• Manufacturing industry: negotiating and implementing a collective wage agreement
• Industrial logistics: outsourcing and transferring a unit to a new legal entity
• Hospital: implementing a reorganization scheme under individual and collective employment aspects
• Shipbuilding: restructuring a shipyard during its ongoing insolvency proceedings and transfer to a buyer
• Logistics: Negotiation of Company Collective Agreement

Recent Awards

• LEGAL 500 Germany: Top Law Firm 2020
• Azur Award 2020 Best Employer Region
• JUVE Award 2018: Law Firm of the year for insolvency law and restructuring
• JUVE Award 2016: Law Firm of the year for medium-sized businesses
• JUVE Award 2016: Law Firm of the year North

Languages: German, English, Spanish, French

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