Prof. Dr. Michael Johannes Pils

Michael advises on the employment law issues of company purchases as well as post-merger integration. He specialises in tailor-made advice for the structure of remuneration systems, questions of employment protection, data protection and health protection as well as company pensions. Michael has considerable experience with the employment law advice of Japanese, Chinese and US American companies. In addition, he advises on all questions of individual and collective employment law.

Since 2019 Michael is member of the executive board of the German-Japanese Society for Labour Law (Deutsch-Japanische Gesellschaft für Arbeitsrecht).

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Career

Since 2020	Partner, Taylor Wessing
2010 - 2020	Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2012	Lecturer, University of Konstanz

2010	Associate, Arqis Rechtsanwälte
2007 – 2009	Legal clerkship, Düsseldorf with postings at Speyer, Oxford, HengelerMüller
2001 – 2007	Research Assistant, Universities of Augsburg and Bonn

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Education

2010	Established as a lawyer, Düsseldorf
2009	Second state examination, Düsseldorf
2009	Scholarship for the Post-Doc Programme DAAD, Oxford

2008	Doctoral degree, University of Augsburg
2007	Legal clerkship
2003 – 2007	Scholarship and doctorate scholarship, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
2004	First state examination, Augsburg
2000	Degree studies in law, University of Augsburg

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Publications

Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz, in: comply, 10/2021, gemeinsam mit Sebastian Rünz und Katja Schiffelholz Semedo

EU and Japan – A New Era of Free Trade, PlugIn – Wir denken das Recht der digitalen Zukunft, Ausgabe #12, August/2018

„Mitbestimmung im digitalen Betrieb“, in: „Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt in Deutschland und Japan: Herausforderungen für das Arbeitsrecht“ (2018), herausgegeben von Franz J. Düwell, Karsten Haase, Martin Wolmerath. Delgany Publishing

Additional languages

English

Japanese

Expertise

Sectors Chemicals Technology, media & communications

Experience

Formycon

Under the leadership of the Frankfurt-based Taylor-Wessing partners Lars-Gerrit Lüßmann and Michael Sinhart, Formycon AG and ATHOS KG are merging their development activities in the field of so-called biosimilars, the follow-up products of biological medicines (biologics), in a long-term strategic partnership. The centrepiece of this agreement is Formycon AG’s participation in the rights of two biosimilars. The volume of the legally complex transaction (aggregate counter-performance) adds up to approximately 650 million euros.

Awards

German Institute for Legal Departments and Corporate Lawyers (diruj) - 2021/2022	Frequently recommended for labor law
The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2021, 2022	Leading individual: Labor and Employment Law