Stephan Wilcken
Of Counsel
Office Freiburg
+49 761 211674-0
stephan.wilcken@dfa.legal
Stephan Wilcken is a qualified lawyer specialising in employment law. After studying law at the University of Freiburg, he was admitted to the bar in 1986. From 1988 to 2009, he was a legal adviser at the Employers’ Association of the Baden Iron and Metal Industry (Arbeitgeberverband der badischen Eisen- und Metallindustrie e. V.), later Südwestmetall, the Association of the Metal and Electrical Industry of Baden-Württemberg (Verband der Metall- und Elektroindustrie Baden-Württemberg e. V.), and, from 1992 onwards, also at the Südwest Business Association (Unternehmensverband Südwest e. V.). From 2009 to 2023, he was managing director of both employers’ associations in Freiburg.
Mr Wilcken advises and represents companies and executives across the full spectrum of employment law, particularly in collective labour law, and supports them in negotiations with works councils to conclude works agreements and in collective bargaining with the relevant trade unions.
He is an honorary judge at the Baden-Württemberg Regional Labour Court and was for many years a member of the administrative committee of the Employment Agencies in Freiburg and Offenburg, serving as alternate chairman there, and a member of the district council of the AOK Baden-Württemberg. He is a member of the German Economic Council and a contributor to various works on labour law published by Haufe-Lexware.
Areas of Expertise
Einblick in Deals und Transactionen von dem DFA-Team.
German-French joint venture between maexpartners GmbH & Theano Advisors SAS
Our Partner Dr Christian Franz has advised (with his former law firm) maexpartners GmbH on the establishment of a joint venture with Theano Advisors SAS in France and in Germany. maexpartners GmbH is a German management consultancy focused on industry and high technology, and is particularly active in the operational area.
The transaction involved the establishment of a joint consulting company in France under the name maexpartners SAS, as well as the opening of another joint consulting company in Germany under the name Theano Advisors GmbH. Both consulting companies will be "staffed" exclusively with binational teams, and will place their operational and strategic expertise at the service of large international clients.
#M&A # French Desk
A few case examples for our practice from the last 20+ years with hands on management by the partners of DFA
DFA assisted German client to enforce loan repayment by a French Bank
DFA attorneys obtain enforcement of claim for loan repayment by French bank under a French notarized loan agreement, making use of the fact that payment claims under a deed notarised in France constitute an enforceable title under the Brussels I and Brussels Ia Regulation, without having to have recourse to the courts first. Within days of receiving copy of the deed declared enforceable by the competent German court, the debtor paid of the entire amount plus cost.
# International Business law # Litigation # French Desk
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