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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 |
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 |
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 |
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