Dr. Klara Pototzky

Klara is a specialist in employment law and a member of the Employment, Pensions & Mobility Practice Area. She advises nationally and internationally active companies as well as executives in all areas of individual and collective employment law.

Her practice includes employment law advice on complex and cross-border M&A transactions, restructurings and carve-outs. Klara Pototzky also has particular experience in restructurings and reorganizations involving the necessary works council negotiations. Klara Pototzky also excels as a specialist in short-time work. As a further focus, Klara Pototzky deals with the protection of secrets and competition law vis-à-vis employees and managing directors.

In the course of her work, Klara Pototzky regularly represents clients in labor court proceedings before the labor and civil courts, for example in dismissal protection or compensation proceedings. Similarly, she assists clients in labor court resolution proceedings such as the contestation of works council and supervisory board elections. On the basis of her practical experience, she was appointed as a specialist attorney for labor law.

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Since 2024 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing

2021 - 2024 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

2018 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Career

Since 2024 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing

2021 - 2024 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

2018 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

2022 Specialist lawyer for labor law

2014 – 2019 Doctoral degree, University of Würzburg

2018 Admitted to the Bar

Publications

Duschen als vergütungspflichtige Arbeitszeit, DeutscherAnwaltSpiegel, erschienen: 01/2025 mit Larissa Lengl

Der Schutz von Geschäftsgeheimnissen in arbeitsgerichtlichen Verfahren, NZA 2024, 1397 ff., mit Annika Rahn

Gilt ein Urlaubsabgeltungsanspruch für Fremdgeschäftsführer?, Human Resources Manager, 2024

Unternehmensmitbestimmung bei grenzüberschreitenden Formwechseln und Spaltungen innerhalb der Europäischen Union, 2023, erschienen in: BB 2023, 1140 ff., zusammen mit Marc Gimmy

Mängel bei der Erstattung der Massenentlassungsanzeige führen nicht zum Individualschutz für Arbeitnehmer – EuGH lässt wichtige Fragen offen, EFAR, 7/23

Welche Soft Skills benötigt man als Anwalt?, Beck Stellenmarkt, Ratgeber Karriere, erschienen: 2/23 mit Ulrich Spiegel

Sorgfaltspflichten des Geschäftsführers zum Schutz von Geschäftsgeheimnissen, Beitrag im e-Book für die GmbH-Geschäftsführung 2020, zusammen mit Marc André Gimmy

Die Arbeitsorganisation in der Pandemie – Verpflichtungen des Geschäftsführers, Beitrag im e-Book für die GmbH-Geschäftsführung 2021, mit Marc André Gimmy

Eine Einführung von Kurzarbeit durch fristlose Änderungskündigung kann zulässig sein, Kommentar zu ArbG Stuttgart, 22.10.2020 – 11 Ca 2950/20, BB 2021, 512, mit Marc André Gimmy

Stolperfalle Kurzarbeitergeld – Risiken der Nachprüfung von Kurzarbeitergeldbezug, in BB, 2021, 2292 ff., mit Marc André Gimmy

Fremdsprache im Arbeitsverhältnis, Schriften zum Bürgerlichen Recht (BR), Band 506 2020. 339 S.

Additional languages

Awards

Legal 500 2025

Featured

Legal 500 2025

Experience

Taylor Wessing advises US-Based Grant Thornton Advisors in the bidding process for Grant Thornton Germany

Provided comprehensive German legal advice to US-Based Grant Thornton Advisors LLC in the bidding process for the audit firm Grant Thornton Germany.

Press release

Dr. Christian Traichel

Dr. Rebekka Krause

Dr. Ralf B. Tietz, LL.M. (Chicago)

Dr. Christian Dietz

Dr. Marco Hartmann-Rüppel, Dipl.-Volkswirt

Juliane Dost, LL.M. (Medizinrecht)

Katharina Häberle, LL.M. (Medizinrecht)

Dr. Klara Pototzky

Sophie Burmeister

Annika Rahn

Sebastian Rünz, LL.M. (Toronto)

Judith Schüler, LL.M.

Lara Nonnenmühlen

Leonard Raphael, LL.M. (Krakau)

Felix Kokorsch

Phillip Heske

Advising Mitel on its transaction to acquire Unify from Atos

We have advised Mitel, a global leader in business communications, on its transaction to acquire Unify, the Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) and Communication and Collaboration Services businesses (CCS) of the Atos group.

Press release

Mark Barron

Dr. Christian Traichel

Gilles Amsallem

Elinor Picton

Dr. Rebekka Krause

Dr. Christian Dietz

Marc André Gimmy

Dr. Klara Pototzky

Dr. Michael Kieffer

Sebastian Rünz, LL.M. (Toronto)

Dr. Adrian Birnbach, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)

Dr. Marco Hartmann-Rüppel, Dipl.-Volkswirt

Dr. Nicolai Wiegand, LL.M. (NYU)

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Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Taylor Wessing advises Saint-Gobain on the transfer of its dry mortar and facade business to Franken Maxit Group

16 October 2025

by multiple authors

Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Taylor Wessing advised US-based Grant Thornton Advisors in the bidding process for Grant Thornton Germany

19 September 2025

by multiple authors

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Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Taylor Wessing advises Voltabox AG (soon to be Voltatron AG) on the acquisition of GMS Electronic Vertriebs GmbH and the associated capital increase through contributions in kind

2 September 2025

by multiple authors

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Dr. Klara Pototzky

Legal 500 2025

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