Sebastian Fedder
Areas of practice
- Collective and individual employment law advice on the restructuring of businesses, including reconciliation of interests agreements and social compensation plans, works constitution law, personnel representation law and public service law, collective bargaining law, including the negotiation of company-specific collective bargaining agreements and collective reorganisation agreements, supplementary pension law (VBL/supplementary pension funds) and company pension law
- Extensive experience advising private businesses and the public sector on complex transactions and restructuring with an emphasis on privatisation projects in the context of formal and informal procedures at federal, state and municipal level, including due diligence reviews
- Regular lecturing on employment law issues and various publications, including: Blanke/Fedder, Handbuch Privatisierung, 2nd edition, Nomos 2010, co-editor and co-autor; co-author of Handbuch Konzernarbeitsrecht, 1st edition, C.H.Beck 2015
Vita
Sebastian Fedder studied law and was then admitted to the German Bar in 1994. He joined Luther’s predecessor firm in 1999 and has been a Partner since 2004.
Honors and distinctions
- Best Lawyers 2025: Recommended in “Labor and Employment Law” (first recommendation in 2023)
Publications
- Tendenzschutz bei der Unternehmensmitbestimmung für eine steuerlich privilegierte, „dienende“ Gesellschaft in einem gemeinnützigen Konzern?, in: Schreiner/Von Steinau-Steinrück (Hrsg.), Arbeitsrecht in der anwaltlichen Praxis – Festschrift für Axel Braun, C.H. Beck, 2024, S. 89-98
- Co-Autor des Werkes Konzernarbeitsrecht (gemeinsam mit Axel Braun & Dr. Gerlind Wisskirchen), Verlag C.H.Beck, 2015
- Staatsdiener steigern Betriebsgröße, in: Publicus / Richard Boorberg Verlag, Heft 3/2012, S. 26-27
- VBL/ZVK Mitgliedschaft bei Tarifflucht aus dem TVöD - Ist dies möglich und ratsam?, in: öAT - Zeitschrift für das öffentliche Arbeits- und Tarifrecht, Ausgabe 5/2010, S. 103-105
- Herausgeber und Co-Autor des Handbuches Privatisierung, Nomos Verlag, 2. Auflage 2010 (gemeinsam mit Thomas Blanke)
- Befreiungsschlag für Aussteiger, Sensationsentscheidung in Sachen Zusatzversorgung – Landgericht Mannheim stellt Gegenwertzahlung in Frage, in: Der Neue Kämmerer vom 01.10.2009
- Beamte und Soldaten - Einsatz im Betriebsrat, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht (NZA), 2009, S. 1069
- Die Beistellungen bei privat-öffentlichen Kapitalgesellschaften, in: Verwaltung & Management, Heft 01/2003 (gemeinsam mit Peter Schilling, Martin Schellenberg & Ulf-Dieter Pape)
- Die Realisierung einer Public Private Partnership durch Gründung eines Kooperationsunternehmens, in: Sonderbeilage zu Verwaltung & Management, Heft 4/2002 (gemeinsam mit Dr. Moos, Schellenberg, Lepique & Pape)
Lectures
- 14.11.2013: Die einvernehmliche Beendigung des Arbeitsverhältnisses, Sächsische Arbeitsrechtstage
- 07.04.2010: Moderne Beschäftigungsformen – aktuelle Tendenzen, Arbeitskreis Personal Nord
- 10.06.2009: Arbeitskreis Personal Nord, Arbeitskreis Personal Nord
- 18.03.2009: Compliance und Whistleblowing, Arbeitskreis Personal Nord
- 03.04.2008: Compliance im Betrieb – Wege aus der Haftungsfalle, Courtyard Marriott
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