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Employment Law Advice for
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OUR AWARDS

Business Weekly

TOP Law Firm 2025 and 2026

Handelsblatt / Best Lawyers

Germany's Best Lawyers 2025 and 2026

Best Lawyers in Germany™

Labor and Employment Law 2026 & 2027

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch™

Labor and Employment Law 2027

Best Law Firms – Germany

Regional Tier 1 Hamburg (2026)

ABOUT US

Anchored
in excellence

NEWHAVEN, founded by Dr. Anne-Kathrin Bertke, stands for first-class employment law advice for companies and executives. The firm is distinguished by professional excellence, in-depth expertise, and practice-oriented solutions. Since 2013, I have successfully represented clients in highly complex projects, often in the public eye – always with unwavering commitment to my clients' interests and a clear focus on current and future developments.

The law firm

What sets NEWHAVEN apart

Professional Excellence

Focused expertise in employment law, gained through years of leading roles in highly complex projects at tier-one law firms. 

Spirit of Innovation and Creativity

Solutions for clients that go beyond the conventional. NEWHAVEN stands for new approaches and actively shapes the employment law discourse on current issues. 

Focus on Client Interests

Achieving the best outcome for our clients is what drives us. NEWHAVEN stands for drive, energy, and flexibility, with a clear focus on your individual needs. 

SERVICES

Our Advisory
Focus Areas

Contract Drafting and Negotiation

Individual solutions for your contract drafting, especially service contracts with board members and managing directors, termination and settlement agreements, employment contracts, compensation agreements, employee participation programs and non-compete clauses.

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Conflict Resolution and Crisis Management

Judicial and extrajudicial dispute resolution, advisory services on separation processes, directors' and officers' liability, supply chain compliance, whistleblowing, internal investigations, as well as communication support (legal communication, litigation PR).

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Collective Labor Law

Advising on corporate co-determination and participation rights of SE Works Councils and European Works Councils, negotiations with employee representatives, drafting and concluding collective agreements, as well as supporting related legal proceedings.

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Board-Level Co-Determination

Strategic structural consulting, including legal form selection, support with supervisory board elections, and employment law advice on the establishment of European Companies (SE).

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Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings

Support in employment law due diligence in M&A transactions and in the drafting of company purchase agreements, advice on domestic and cross-border reorganizations, including the drafting of reorganization plans, agreements and reports, as well as coordination with domestic and foreign law firms.

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Restructuring and Insolvency

Restructuring of corporate groups, including carve-outs, operational changes, and workforce reductions, including in insolvency situations, supported by practical in-house experience at Novartis, and employment law advisory in insolvency matters.

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Tag-Along - Co-sale rights for shareholders

Drag-Along - Co-sale obligations for shareholders

Sweet equity - a popular form of management participation

Bad leaver clause: What you need to look out for

Transfer of business Information

Transfer of business Objection

Share deal: labor law aspects

Transfer of business Prerequisites

End operational exercise

What are vesting clauses?

Management participation: What is it?

Management participation in private equity

What are employee stock options?

Post-contractual non-competition clause

Cancellation of a post-contractual non-compete clause

Compensation in the event of resignation

Post-contractual non-competition clause for managing directors and board members

Handelsblatt / Best Lawyers Ranking: Award in the category "Germany's Best Lawyers 2025" in employment law

WirtschaftsWoche: NEWHAVEN Named TOP Employment Law Firm 2025

Post-contractual non-compete clauses: Misunderstandings - and what really matters

Employment Law Due Diligence – What Should Be on the Checklist for Transformations?

Protection of trade secrets and company know-how - the end of remote work?

New Publication: Commentary on Co-Determination in Occupational Health and Safety

New Publication: "News on Negotiated Board-Level Co-Determination"

Talent Management Framework Policies as a Retention Tool

Implications of ECJ Ruling on Employee Involvement Procedures for Shelf SEs - Personal Assessment