KLIEMT.Arbeitsrecht

Attorney, Certified Employment Law Specialist

Partner

Burkard Göpfert advises primarily on complex transformation, integration and restructuring projects and on the harmonisation of employment conditions. He is the author and (co-)editor of a large number of textbooks on the topics of restructuring and employment law, and a lecturer at Passau University, and for over ten years he has organised the Handelsblatt annual conference on restructuring. Burkard Göpfert is also co-editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht.

German, English

European Employ­ment Lawyers Association (EELA) Gesell­schaft für Umstruk­tu­rie­rung TMA Deutsch­land e.V. Inter­na­tio­nal Bar Association, Employ­ment Law Section Inter­na­tio­nal Insolvency Institute

Attorney since 1996 With KLIEMT.HR Lawyers since 2017 Previously practised for international commercial law firms, including heading a law firm in Warsaw; firm’s country representative for China and South-East Asia Consultancy on a large number of US court proceedings as German co-counsel, including discrimination proceedings (Dresdner Bank) and combating class action claims (Napster) Professional training in Passau, Geneva, Munich, New York and Berlin Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Columbia University, New York