Focal Points
Restructuring
Negotiations with employee representatives
International employment law
Advising US companies
Business Mediation
Dr. Thomas Griebe
vangard's partner Dr. Thomas Griebe, who is based in Hamburg, surprises time and again with unusual approaches to solutions in his specialist areas of restructuring and negotiations with employee representatives. Clients and colleagues, and also opponents, appreciate him as a good listener and an empathic, communicative and integrative negotiator. He himself appreciates the complexity as well as the patience and fairness required in negotiations – and on the golf course.
Languages: German, English
Career
Lecturer on employment law Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg
Founded Griebe Rechtsanwälte, 2012
Business mediator since 2006
Certified Employment Law Specialist since 2001
Attorney with the international business law firm of Taylor Wessing, 1995–2012, partner since 1998
Research associate at the University of Hamburg, 1992–1995
Hamburg police force member, 1983–1988
Education
Hamburg Police Department
Studied law in Hamburg, Göttingen, Houston and Singapore
Scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Research associate to Prof. Dr. Dr. Hein Kötz, holder of the chair for International Private and Procedural Law and Comparative Law at the University of Hamburg
Graduated from the University of Hamburg, 1996
Publications
Co-Author, Germany Chapter, The Littler International Guide