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Walter Born is partner in the Frankfurt office. He advises clients on a variety of legal and business issues, with an emphasis on restructuring measures and the negotiation of reconciliation of interests and social plans, outsourcing transactions and German TUPE provisions, employee data protection, dismissals (mass lay-offs) and related litigation, internal investigations, employee benefits and ERISA litigation. He counsels clients on employment advice, including drafting employment, managing directors’ and board members’ contracts and settlement agreements. He also has experience advising on collective labor law matters, and counsels on immigration matters, social security law, enforceability of post-contractual non-compete covenants and many other related matters.
- SEB Bank at the wind down of their German business.
- SEB Bank on the transfer of a part of its business to its German Branch.
- E.ON on the outsourcing of various application services to an external provider.
- Capio Clinic in a negotiation of a works agreement on working hours.
- IT Company in an internal investigation.
- HP CDS in a spin merger (spin-off of the Enterprise Business Services; reconciliation of interests and social plan; transfer of undertakings).
Memberships and Affiliations
- Frankfurt Anwaltsverein e.V., Member
- Deutscher Anwaltsverein e.V., Member
- Employment Law Labor Group of the Deutscher Anwaltsverein, Member
Spring 2020, Covington Guide
As businesses across Europe prepare to reopen following the COVID-19 lockdown, Covington is providing practical resources and guidance on the broad array of issues companies face as employees return to the workplace, including employment, privacy, competition, policy, environmental and regulatory considerations at the EU level, with a focus on Germany and the ...
May 20, 2020, Covington Alert
In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been significant recent developments in Germany with respect to business interruption insurance and short-time working compensation.
April 27, 2020, Covington Alert
Whether a company is an essential business or is expecting to reopen in the coming weeks, a number of challenges must be addressed in order to provide a safe environment in which employees can work, while at the same time mitigating risk and restoring operations. Generally speaking, employees can be required to come to the workplace, but this general rule must ...
August 2019, Covington Alert
The ECJ ruled on 14 May 2019 (C-55/18) that Member States must take measures to ensure that employers comply with the minimum rest periods and prevent workers from working in excess of the weekly maximum working hours, including introducing an "objective, reliable and accessible system" to measure daily working time.
April 2, 2019, Covington Alert
The German Federal Employment Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht) ruled on February 19, 2019 (Reference number 9 AZR 541/15) that annual vacation entitlement can only be forfeited at the end of a calendar year if the employer previously advised the employee of his/her accrued entitlement and of the deadline by which untaken vacation would be forfeited.
February 2019, Covington Alert
This International Employment Update summarises recent international employment law developments in China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
September 28, 2018
FRANKFURT—Covington advised Investcorp Technology Partners on its acquisition of Berlin-based Softgarden, a human resources software provider. Investcorp is a leading global provider and manager of alternative investments and has $22.6 billion in total assets under management, including assets managed by third party managers and assets subject to a ...
Covington Advises Senvion Group on Global Outsourcing
July 6, 2018
FRANKFURT—Covington advised Senvion Group on the global outsourcing of its IT infrastructure, network, and application services. The outsourcing includes the transformation of the global legacy data center environment into a new hybrid cloud environment. Founded in Germany, Senvion is a global manufacturer of onshore and offshore wind turbines and has installed ...
May 9, 2018
FRANKFURT—Covington advised Adiuva Fund II GmbH & Co. KG, a private equity fund advised by Adiuva Capital GmbH, on the acquisition of nt-trading from private equity investor INVICTO Invest GmbH and various co-investors. Adiuva Capital is a Hamburg-based independent investment firm focused on investing in mid-sized enterprises. nt-trading is headquartered in ...
Covington Opens Frankfurt Office
March 28, 2018
LONDON—Covington will open an office in Frankfurt, Germany on April 3 led by eight partners. Frankfurt will be the firm’s third European office and will work closely with the firm’s five offices in the United States, its three offices in Asia, and its offices in the Middle East and Africa. “Covington will offer German companies a unique capability to help them ...
- Juve Handbook, Employment Law (2014-2015)
- Best Lawyers in Germany (in cooperation with Handelsblat), Employment Law (2017-2020)
COVID-19: Legal and Business Toolkit
We are helping clients around the world navigate this evolving, complex situation.