Sebastian Buder Partner

Dr. Sebastian Buder is a partner in the Labour & Employment Practice Group based in our Berlin office. He focuses his practice on litigation and counseling in all aspects of German labour and employment law, as well as related fields such as pensions and social security law. His particular expertise covers advising national and international corporations on all aspects of individual and collective employment law issues. He has significant litigation practice in all these areas. He has also many years of experience in providing legal advice to clients in the hotel industry, logistic industry as well as service sectors.

Sebastian advises on restructurings of companies and their workforce, lay-offs and negotiations with works councils in the context of co-determination including the negotiation of reconciliation of interests and social plans as well as representing clients in conciliations board procedures. He provides specialist advice in TUPE issues. Sebastian also regularly advises national and international companies in mergers and acquisitions, with respect to labour and employment law and pensions.

In addition Sebastian has extensive experience in advising employers on union and works council issues, implementation of code of conducts, discrimination, employment contracts, hiring and termination, severance and separation agreements, benefits and bonus models, working hour issues, outsourcing, compliance issues, employee leasing and he covers the full horizon of work place labour and employment law issues. He frequently represents clients before the labour courts in Germany. Sebastian also provides specialist advice in relation to company pension issues.

He is a certified specialist in employment law (Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht).

Representative Experience

• Advising on the employment aspects of a number of multi-jurisdictional mergers and take-overs.
• Advising a multi-national hotel chain in relation to restructuring in Germany including redundancies.
• Counseling a international entertainment technology company on mass redundancies.
• Advising on the implementation of a Code of conduct for a multinational company in German.
• Advising a national company of the freight industry in various aspects of employment law.
• Representing a major German client in negotiations with the works council concerning working time.
• Advising a major logistic company concerning co-determination rights of the works council.
• Acting for a major German healthcare company at the German Federal Labor Court regarding equal payment for part-time employees.
• Advising a significant number of international clients regarding redundancies.
• Acting in various protection against dismissal lawsuits.
• Advising a major international facilities management company in relation to TUPE issues.
• Advising major logistic client on various aspects of German labour and employment law.
• Counseling a US based software company on contractual regulations for bonus and commissions payments for sales representatives in Germany.
• Advising a US based airline on works council issues.
• Advising international clients on company pension plans in Germany.