• Dr. Thomas Thees
  • Dr. Thomas Thees

Partner
thees@pwwl.de
+49 (0) 69 34 87 63 9-0
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Dr. Thomas Thees advises national and international corporations and group of companies on all matters of individual and collective labor law. He has particular experience in the fields of service contract law of top executives and the adjoining company law, litigation, negotiations with the works council and trade unions and company pension schemes. Furthermore, he advises board members, managing directors and top executives and he regularly gives talks and holds seminars on labor law related aspects.

He advises national and international clients on all labor law aspects of M&A, operational changes and restructurings; this includes negotiations on reconciliation of interests and social plans, staff cuts, transitions and outsourcing. Moreover, Dr. Thees has extensive knowledge and experience with all matters of service and employment contracts, works constitutions and collective bargaining agreements. Dr. Thees advises and represents companies and top executives in court in all matters of employment and service contract law in all instances up to the Federal Labor Court.

Language skills: German, English
Location: Frankfurt am Main

  • Career

    born in Wittlich

    1983-1988
    Study of Law in Saarbrücken und Trier

    1988-1991
    Legal training at the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz

    1991–1994
    Research Assistant in the faculties of labor law, civil law, competition law and European law at the University of Saarland and Trier

    1994
    Admission to the German Bar

    1995
    PhD thesis on personal rights in the employment relationship, supervised by Prof. Dr. Horst Ehmann

    1994-1997
    Lawyer at Grützmacher Gravert & Partner, Frankfurt am Main

    1997
    Certified labor and employment law specialist

    1997-2019
    Lawyer at Andersen Legal and EY Law, since 2006 Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft, since 2000 Partner and Head of Labor Law, Frankfurt am Main

    2019
    Partner at Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law, Frankfurt/Main

  • Publications

    Hölters: Handbuch Unternehmenskauf (arbeitsrechtlicher Teil), 10. Aufl., Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt KG, 09/2022

    Hölters: Handbuch Unternehmenskauf (arbeitsrechtlicher Teil), 9. Aufl., (seit 7. Aufl.), 9. neu bearbeitete Auflage, 2019, Hölters (Hrsg.), Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt

    Personalrecht-Lexikon beck online 2019 (Hrsg) Minn/Stück/Braun, Personalrecht-Lexikon

    Stichwortkommentar Arbeitsrecht – Beitrag Betriebliche Bündnisse für Arbeit, herausgegeben von Dr. Marcel Grobys, Dr. Andrea Panzer-Heermeier, Nomos Verlag, 2019

    Arbeitsrechtliche Neuregelungen durch das Betriebsrentenstärkungsgesetz ab 2018, Der Betrieb 2017, 1777

    all publications
  • Awards / Activities

    • Regular lectures in the field of labor law, e.g. at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Personalführung (DGFP), Bundesverband der Arbeitsrechtler in Unternehmen (BVAU)
    • Listed by JUVE and Best Lawyers/Handelsblatt as recommended employment law specialist in Germany
    • Listed by Best Lawyers as one of the recommended employment law specialists in Germany since 2016

Partner
thees@pwwl.de
+49 (0) 69 34 87 63 9-0

Dr. Thomas Thees advises national and international corporations and group of companies on all matters of individual and collective labor law. He has particular experience in the fields of service contract law of top executives and the adjoining company law, litigation, negotiations with the works council and trade unions and company pension schemes. Furthermore, he advises board members, managing directors and top executives and he regularly gives talks and holds seminars on labor law related aspects.

He advises national and international clients on all labor law aspects of M&A, operational changes and restructurings; this includes negotiations on reconciliation of interests and social plans, staff cuts, transitions and outsourcing. Moreover, Dr. Thees has extensive knowledge and experience with all matters of service and employment contracts, works constitutions and collective bargaining agreements. Dr. Thees advises and represents companies and top executives in court in all matters of employment and service contract law in all instances up to the Federal Labor Court.

Language skills: German, English
Location: Frankfurt am Main

Dr. Thomas Thees

Career

born in Wittlich

1983-1988
Study of Law in Saarbrücken und Trier

1988-1991
Legal training at the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz

1991–1994
Research Assistant in the faculties of labor law, civil law, competition law and European law at the University of Saarland and Trier

1994
Admission to the German Bar

1995
PhD thesis on personal rights in the employment relationship, supervised by Prof. Dr. Horst Ehmann

1994-1997
Lawyer at Grützmacher Gravert & Partner, Frankfurt am Main

1997
Certified labor and employment law specialist

1997-2019
Lawyer at Andersen Legal and EY Law, since 2006 Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft, since 2000 Partner and Head of Labor Law, Frankfurt am Main

2019
Partner at Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law, Frankfurt/Main