• Excellent in every respect, solution-oriented and pragmatic

    JUVE
  • Very good negotiating skills, extremely quick comprehension, in-depth specialist knowledge

    JUVE
  • Brilliant negotiator...courage to find creative solutions

    Legal 500
  • An extremely intelligent and really brilliant lawyer…well-prepared and focused approach

    Who’s Who Legal
  • He has a unique blend of technical knowledge and business acumen, outstanding commitment and a client service mentality.

    Chambers
  • I have rarely worked with a lawyer who is so entrepreneurial, focused and has such great judgement.

    Chambers

Partner
pusch@pwwl.de
+49 (0) 30 20 62 95 3-0
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Dr. Tobias Pusch advises national and international corporations and group of companies, as well as senior and top-executives, on all matters of individual and collective labor law. He has particular experience in the fields of acquisition and restructuring of companies, formation of European Companies (Societas Europaea – SE), drafting and negotiation of collective labor agreements, works agreements as well as reconciliations of interests and social plans, complex court hearings (e.g. workplace bullying, cases of discrimination, board member liability). He also advises leading executives on drafting of contracts and exit scenarios. Based on his years of experience as a consultant for DAX-listed corporations and medium-sized businesses as well as his certificates in Business Economics (MBA, MSc), he is particularly qualified to understand the business challenges facing his clients and to develop a solution that is both creative and viable. Dr. Tobias Pusch is one of Germany’s leading Labor Law specialists.

Language skills: German, English, Russian
Location: Berlin

  • Career

    born in Berlin

    1990-1995
    Study of Law at the Free University of Berlin

    1996
    Co-founder of a labor and employment law bar review in Berlin

    1996-1998
    Compulsory legal training in Berlin and New York

    1998
    Admission to the German Bar

    1998-2001
    Academic assistant of Prof. Dr. Schwark, Humboldt University of Berlin

    2001
    Lawyer in the labor and employment law department of Baker McKenzie, Berlin/Munich

    2001
    University of Berlin, PhD thesis on “ADR in interest Disputes in Public Sector Labor Law in the USA and Germany” (summa cum laude), supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. Säcker, Germany/New York

    2002
    LL.M., Harvard Law School (Boston)

    2002-2005
    Established the Hamburg labor and employment law department of Allen & Overy LLP

    2004
    Certified labor and employment law specialist

    2006
    Founder of the law firm Pusch & Partner – Labour Law Attorneys, 2008 change of company name into Pusch Wahlig Legal

    2012
    MBA (TU-München, in Cooperation with UC Berkeley)

    2014
    MSc; London Business School

    2018
    Change of company name into Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law

  • Publications

  • Awards / Activities

    • Listed by Best Lawyers as one of the recommended employment law specialists in Germany since 2009
    • Listed by Who’s Who Legal as a world-wide leading lawyer for labor & employment law since 2011
    • Listed by JUVE as one of the top employment lawyers in Germany under the age of forty in 2008 to 2010
    • Listed by JUVE as one of the top German employment lawyers in Germany in general since 2011
    • Listed by Handelsblatt as “Deutschlands Beste Anwälte” in 2015 and 2016
    • Listed by Wirtschaftswoche in a Labor Law specialists ranking in 2017
    • Listed by Handelsblatt as one of 7 “lawyers of the year 2017” in labor law
    • Lecturer for DeutscheAnwaltAkademie (training courses for future certified employment and labor law specialists)
    • Lecturer for Management Circle AG: „Labor and Employment Law related aspects for managing directors”
    • President of the Harvard University Alumni Club of Berlin e.V.
    • Member of the Harvard Law School Association Councils (Boston)
    • President of the Harvard Scholarship Foundation Germany e.V.
    • 2011-2016: Chairman of the supervisory board of L&E Global (Brussels), since 2016: Member of the Management Board

Partner
pusch@pwwl.de
+49 (0) 30 20 62 95 3-0

Dr. Tobias Pusch advises national and international corporations and group of companies, as well as senior and top-executives, on all matters of individual and collective labor law. He has particular experience in the fields of acquisition and restructuring of companies, formation of European Companies (Societas Europaea – SE), drafting and negotiation of collective labor agreements, works agreements as well as reconciliations of interests and social plans, complex court hearings (e.g. workplace bullying, cases of discrimination, board member liability). He also advises leading executives on drafting of contracts and exit scenarios. Based on his years of experience as a consultant for DAX-listed corporations and medium-sized businesses as well as his certificates in Business Economics (MBA, MSc), he is particularly qualified to understand the business challenges facing his clients and to develop a solution that is both creative and viable. Dr. Tobias Pusch is one of Germany’s leading Labor Law specialists.

Language skills: German, English, Russian
Location: Berlin

  • Excellent in every respect, solution-oriented and pragmatic

    JUVE
  • Very good negotiating skills, extremely quick comprehension, in-depth specialist knowledge

    JUVE
  • Brilliant negotiator...courage to find creative solutions

    Legal 500
  • An extremely intelligent and really brilliant lawyer…well-prepared and focused approach

    Who’s Who Legal
  • He has a unique blend of technical knowledge and business acumen, outstanding commitment and a client service mentality.

    Chambers
  • I have rarely worked with a lawyer who is so entrepreneurial, focused and has such great judgement.

    Chambers

Career

born in Berlin

1990-1995
Study of Law at the Free University of Berlin

1996
Co-founder of a labor and employment law bar review in Berlin

1996-1998
Compulsory legal training in Berlin and New York

1998
Admission to the German Bar

1998-2001
Academic assistant of Prof. Dr. Schwark, Humboldt University of Berlin

2001
Lawyer in the labor and employment law department of Baker McKenzie, Berlin/Munich

2001
University of Berlin, PhD thesis on “ADR in interest Disputes in Public Sector Labor Law in the USA and Germany” (summa cum laude), supervised by Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h.c. Säcker, Germany/New York

2002
LL.M., Harvard Law School (Boston)

2002-2005
Established the Hamburg labor and employment law department of Allen & Overy LLP

2004
Certified labor and employment law specialist

2006
Founder of the law firm Pusch & Partner – Labour Law Attorneys, 2008 change of company name into Pusch Wahlig Legal

2012
MBA (TU-München, in Cooperation with UC Berkeley)

2014
MSc; London Business School

2018
Change of company name into Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law