Areas of expertise
Companies
Ongoing consultation of companies with regard to individual and collective employment and labor law:
- Collective bargaining law (application of collective agreements, alteration of agreements, entry and exit from voluntary labor organizations, classifications etc.)
- Employment contracts and freelance employment contracts
- Wages and variable remuneration models
- Consultation and support with the termination of employment relationships (including representation before courts and public authorities)
- Employee data protection (guidelines, declarations of consent, data protection audits etc.)
- Support in the drafting of company business agreements
- Assistance and support at social partner and works council negotiations
- Agreements on posting of employees
- Distinguishing between terms of employment
- Structuring of deployments and cross border outsourcing
- Employee liability
- Law for the Health Care Profession
- Advice on “GPLA” audits (common audit of wage related levies) (especially changes made to employment contracts, underpayment, etc.)
Managing directors and Managers
- Drafting and reviewing of manager employment contracts
- Consultation concerning D&O liability insurance
- Remuneration models
- Advice on the termination of manager employment contracts
- Representation before courts and public authorities (administrative criminal proceedings, compensation and dismissal lawsuits)
Working hours (Employee contract law)
- Development of working time models
- Models for calculating working hours
- Flexible working hours
- Shift models
- Special overtime
- Conception of company agreements
- Advice concerning maximum working hours etc.
- Recruitment of responsible representatives
- Support during work inspections
- Support and representation at administrative criminal proceedings
Other employee protection
- Advice on compliance-issues, establishment of control systems
- Advice on wage and social dumping issues
- Work-related accidents
Company law
- Foundation of partnerships and incorporated companies
- Support at shareholder meetings
- Implementation of capital measures
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Registering a company/ Making alterations to the Company Register (changes at the shareholder level, exchange of managing directors, charter amendments, etc.)
Private Clients / asset succession
- Private foundations law (establishment, ongoing support as well as liquidation of private foundations
- Drafting of last wills and testaments
- Advice on probate proceedings
- Advice on adult representation matters
- Drafting, deposition and alteration of health care proxies
Data protection law
- General consultation concerning the “DSGVO” (basic data protection regulation)
- Performance of data protection audits
- Support in the drafting of declarations of consent, directory of processing activities, Data-Breach reports, etc.
Property and real estate law
- Acquisition and sale of properties, real estates, apartments, “superaedificates” (building on land owned by someone else), building rights, etc.
- Consultation and performance of transactions related to properties
- Transfer of properties
- Registering land/Making alterations to the Land Register (e.g. deletion / registration of easements, charges, rights of residence, usufructuary rights)
- Advice and support in land- use proceedings
- Partitioning of properties (write ups/write downs)
- Acquisition of trusteeships
- Handling of real estate projects
- Sales contracts
- Gift deeds
- Tenancy and residence law
- Especially related to “MRG/WGG/ABGB” apartments
- Support with the conclusion and termination of tenancy contracts
- Review of heating and operating cost statements
- Consultation concerning the maintenance requirements set out in lease agreements
- Rental of commercial premises/business lease agreements
Litigation
- Representation in courts of all kinds
- Representation before administrative authorities and courts (especially issues concerning wage and social dumping, breach of working hours agreements, reclassification of independent/dependent employment relationships
- Compensation and warranty lawsuits
- Medical liability
- Construction damage
- Representation in civil and/or administration disputes related to the transaction of properties
- Company law disputes