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Dr. Klara Pototzky
Dr. Klara Pototzky

Dr. Klara Pototzky

Salary Partner

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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.

Expertise

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Employment, pensions & mobility
Corporate/M&A & capital markets
Employment

CV

Since 2024 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2021 - 2024 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2018 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2013 – 2018 Research assistant, University of Würzburg
2022 Specialist lawyer for labor law
2014 – 2019 Doctoral degree, University of Würzburg
2018 Admitted to the Bar
2017 Second state examination
2015 – 2017 Legal clerkship, Würzburg
2013 First state examination

Career

Since 2024 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2021 - 2024 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2018 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2013 – 2018 Research assistant, University of Würzburg

Education

2022 Specialist lawyer for labor law
2014 – 2019 Doctoral degree, University of Würzburg
2018 Admitted to the Bar
2017 Second state examination
2015 – 2017 Legal clerkship, Würzburg
2013 First state examination

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.

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Awards

Legal 500 2025

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Recommended lawyer for Employment law

Legal 500 2025

Always up to date with the latest case law and legislative proposals, always very close to practice, reliable and solution-oriented.

Experience

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.

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