Sarah is a certified lawyer for employment law. She advises companies in all areas of individual and collective labour law and represents national and international clients in labour and civil court proceedings throughout Germany.

Sarah is a certified lawyer for employment law. She advises companies in all areas of individual and collective labour law and represents national and international clients in labour and civil court proceedings throughout Germany. One focus of her practice is advising on domestic and cross-border restructuring projects, including project coordination. In addition, Sarah advises employers on legal issues in the area of employee data protection. Sarah regularly publishes contributions in specialist journals and gives presentations as well as in-house training courses and seminars on various employment law topics. She has also completed her training as a business mediator (MuCDR).

Sarah's experience

  • Advised the GEWOFAG Group (now Münchner Wohnen) on its merger with GWG Städtische Wohnungsgesellschaft München mbH to form Münchner Wohnen. The merger creates the largest municipal housing association in southern Germany.

  • Advising HomeServe, a sanitary, heating and air-conditioning company headquartered in the UK, on legal and strategic support in connection with the entry into the German market, for example on the set-up of all commercial contracts as well as on insurance, data protection and competition law issues.

  • Comprehensive employment law advice to a Chinese automotive supplier in connection with the restructuring of two German subsidiaries, which is expected to result in the dismissal of a number of employees, in particular also to avoid insolvency.

  • Comprehensive employment law advice to a listed biotech company on restructuring measures, including strategic advice on implementation.

  • Advised an Indian telecommunications company on the introduction of global bonus and sales incentive plans and negotiations on shop agreements, including the implementation of, and representation in arbitration proceedings. This included advice on strategic planning concerning the termination of employment relationships and representation before the labour court of Frankfurt am Main in several proceedings regarding claims for variable compensation under the existing sales incentive plans.

  • Advised Idera, Inc., part of the private equity company HGGC, on the acquisition of the software provider Travis CI GmbH, a market leader among the providers of open source software solutions.

Credentials

  • 2021
    Certified lawyer for employment law
  • 2019
    Admission as lawyer, Munich Bar Association
  • 2017
    Company lawyer, ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE
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Out-Law / Insight by Sarah Klachin, LL.M.

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