
Bernd Kaufhold
Lawyer and Mediator
Certified Specialized Attorney in Labor and Employment Law
Certified Specialized Attorney in Criminal Law
Vita
- Born in 1966
 - Legal studies at the Universities of Osnabrück and Bielefeld
 - Bar admission in 1996
 - Certified Specialized Attorney in Labor and Employment Law and in Criminal Law since 2000
 
Memberships
- Deutscher Anwaltsverein
 - Mitglied der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Arbeitsrecht im DAV
 - Verband Deutscher Arbeitsrechtsanwälte
 - Lions Club International
 - Gesellschaft zur Weserklause Minden
 
Kompetenzen
Labor law
- Employee data protection
 - Criminal labor law
 - Employment agreements
 - Termination agreements
 - Fixed-term employment
 - Plant closures and restructuring
 - Works agreements
 - Industrial constitution law and collective bargaining law (including negotiations with works councils and trade unions)
 - Conciliation board procedures
 - Judicial and out-of-court representation in labor law disputes
 - Reconciliation of interests and social plan
 - Insolvency labor law
 - Church labor law
 - Termination including mass layoffs
 - Legal relationships of managing directors and board members
 - Co-determination
 - Restructuring of companies and businesses
 - Labor law in hospitals
 
Mediation and arbitration
Mediation
- Activity as mediator / business mediator, also as co-mediator with other non-attorney mediators
 - Consulting and support during mediation proceedings
 - Preparation of mediation agreements and mediation clauses
 - Consulting during the preparation and review of mediation agreements prepared in the cause of mediation
 - Business mediation (e.g. succession plan in family-run businesses, internal conflicts, conflicts during contract negotiations and contract performance, disputes between enterprises, disputes regarding employment relationships)
 - Probate mediation, regulation of succession
 
Law regarding business and fiscal offenses
Law regarding business offenses
- Granting/taking of undue advantage (in business transactions)
 - Bribery/corruption
 - Fraudulent invoicing
 - Corruptibility in business transactions
 - Defense in proceedings under the law governing the professions
 - Crimes in corporate crisis
 - Preferential treatment of the creditor/debtor
 - Defense in investigative proceedings/ attending searches
 - Defense in administrative penalty proceedings