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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.
The Founder
Excellence and Unwavering Commitment
to Clients
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Bertke honed her skills at the most prestigious law firms in her field, where she has led highly complex cases in recent years. These experiences have shaped her approach. At NEWHAVEN, clients can expect excellent and innovative advice.
Professional and academic career
Professional career
- Lawyer since 2013, first nine years at Freshfields, then at a leading employment law boutique (Tier One)
- Secondment to the HR department of Novartis Germany during ongoing restructuring measures
- Secondment to the "Global Litigation Communications" department (Group-wide crisis communications) of Volkswagen AG
- Five-month internal investigation at a global insurance company in Switzerland
Academic career
- Studied at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg (LL.B. and Dr. jur.) and the University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Doctorate with Professor Dr. Matthias Jacobs (Bucerius Law School) on the topic "On the admissibility of sympathy strikes"
- Legal clerkship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court
Publications and Presentations
Dr. Anne-Kathrin Bertke is a consultant at the IfUS Institute (Institut für Unternehmenssanierung and Development) in Heidelberg, where she leads the module "Restructuring measures under employment law in times of crisis" as part of the "Restructuring and reorganization consultant certificate course". She is a regular speaker at specialist conferences, most recently at the Center for Labor Relations and Labor Law (ZAAR) in Munich, at the conference of the Labor Law Working Group of the German Bar Association (DAV) and at the local conference of the German Association of Labor Courts, at the Practitioners' Group on Works Constitution Law and at the Federal Association of Labor Lawyers in Companies (BVAU) and provides impetus in publications on key topics in labor law.
Recent lectures and publications deal with the following topics, among others:
- Employment law in restructuring and insolvency
- Digitalization in the workplace - data protection and employee co-determination
- Compliance risk works council remuneration
- Working time recording
- Post-contractual non-compete clauses
- Supply chain compliance and trade secret protection
- Cross-border conversions and news on the European Company (SE)
- Whistleblowing and managing directors
- Directors' liability in the pandemic
- Occupational health and safety
President of Bucerius Alumni e.V.
As President of the Alumni Association of Bucerius Law School, she leads a community of over 2,200 members and is committed to the exchange between academia and practice.
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