Profile: Klaus-Stefan Hohenstatt

Management Labour and Employment

Biography: Management Labour and Employment

Klaus-Stefan Hohenstatt is head of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's global employment, pensions and benefits (EPB) practice group. He specialises in individual and collective employment law, particularly in a corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions context. He is an expert on senior executive compensation and deals with their service contracts, pension and share-scheme arrangements. He handles both contentious and non-contentious matters.

Klaus-Stefan Hohenstatt has advised Wella on its acquisition by Procter & Gamble and on its subsequent restructuring (employment advice); Continental on the acquisition of Phoenix and VDO and on the subsequent integration of the acquired international group into Continental; Beiersdorf with regard to employment aspects of the international reorganisation of their supply chain and the formation of a German manufacturing company; Gruner+Jahr on an outsourcing project and on the merger of its printing operations with the printing divisions of Bertelsmann and Springer; Hewlett Packard Inc on the post-merger integration of Compaq and on several outsourcings (in particular West LB; HP as service provider).

Klaus-Stefan is the author and co-author of a number of publications on German and European employment law and-with his partners H J Willemsen, U Schweibert, C H Seibt-co-editor of a treatise on employment aspects in connection with mergers and acquisitions as well as the restructuring of companies Umstrukturierung und Übertragung von Unternehmen, 3rd edition (Beck Verlag, München 2008).