Biography: Management Labour and Employment

Michael Kliemt is founder and senior partner of Kliemt & Vollstädt, a leading German law firm practising exclusively in employment, labour and pension law. His main areas of work include collective dismissals, restructuring processes, human resources aspects of mergers and acquisitions, drafting and negotiating company collective agreements, negotiation and mediation with works councils and unions, as well as the creation and legal optimisation of service contracts and pension plans.

Michael Kliemt is the winner of the International Law Office (ILO) Client Choice Award 2011 for Labour and employment, Germany. He has been recommended and named as one of the leading German employment law practitioner in many publications such as Who's Who Legal, Best Lawyers, Handelsblatt, Focus and Manager Magazine. Chambers and JUVE named him as one of the leading individuals in employment law in Germany. PLC Which Lawyer? recommends him as an employment lawyer in Germany.

He was born in 1966 and lives in Düsseldorf. Michael Kliemt received his JD (doctorate) in 1994 from the University of Cologne. He was admitted to the Bar in 1995. In 1999 he was awarded the title Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht (certified employment law specialist) by the bar association. Until 2002 he was partner at Clifford Chance, one of the biggest law firms worldwide; there he built up and was head of the employment law department in Düsseldorf. Since 2001 he has been a member of the federal state judiciary examination office of the department of justice by the federal state Saarland. In 2006 he became a professor in labour and employment law from the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken.

Michael Kliemt is a frequent writer and speaker on employment and labour law topics and author of legal commentaries and numerous books. Michael Kliemt is member of the German Employment Court Association, the German-Japanese Employment Law Association and the working group of the employment law specialists in the German Lawyers Association.

He speaks German and English.

With more than 50 lawyers, Kliemt & Vollstädt has its main office in Düsseldorf, and offices also in Berlin and Frankfurt. Kliemt & Vollstädt is a member of Ius Laboris, the global alliance of leading law firms providing specialised services in employment/labour law, employee benefits, immigration and pension law. With more than 2,500 lawyers Ius Laboris provides local human resources law expertise across the globe, with member firms in over 45 countries and a presence in more than 100 countries.

For further information please visit: www.kliemt.de and www.iuslaboris.com.