Michael Magotsch has over 30 years of experience in advising global companies in all aspects of German labor and employment law. His practice focuses on national and cross-border restructurings, acquisitions, redundancies and outsourcing measures.

He also advises C-level executives in transition or exit scenarios as well as supervisory boards in sensitive disputes with C-level executives.

Michael held various management positions for other law firms.

He was Coudert Brothers` Head of the EU Employment Practice as well as Country Managing Partner for Germany until 2005. He started DLA Piper`s Frankfurt office and was Office Managing Partner until 2009.

Michael is a lecturer of business and social law at SRH University Heidelberg/Germany.

Oliver Otto focuses on restructurings and bankruptcies as well as banking and finance, in particular in the finance, technology, energy and industry sectors.

His practice comprises the advice on the insolvency risk remote design of investments and participations, on financial restructuring measures, non-performing investments and (exit) strategies as well as portfolio solutions and debt trading. He also advises and represents creditors in insolvency proceedings as well as debtors in their crisis and debtor-in-possession proceedings. Oliver Otto further focuses on cases of fraudulent insolvencies as well as corporates and directors in near-insolvency scenarios.