Prof. Dr. Stephanie Michel
Lawyer
Certified Specialized Attorney in Labor and Employment Law
Vita
- Born in 1970
- Studied law at the universities of Göttingen, Munich and Hanover
- First State Examination in 1995
- Legal clerkship in Frankfurt and New York, 1995–1998
- Instructor at the Wegner & Abels and Akademie von Hertel civil law review courses, 1996–2000
- Second state examination in 1998
- Awarded the degree of Dr. jur. in 1999
- Attorney at the law firm Stobbe Rechtsanwälte, 1999–2002
- Adjunct professor of business law at the FHDW in Hanover, 2001–2004
- Senior Legal Counsel at Hannover Reinsurance AG, 2002–2004
- Professor of Business Law, FHDW Hanover, 2004–present
- Head of the German Notaries Association office in Brussels, 2008–2014
- Served as external General Counsel for an international, publicly traded company in the U.S., based in Frankfurt, 2014–2020
- Attorney at addLEGAL, Hanover, 2020–2026
- Honorary Consul for the Kingdom of Belgium in Niedersachsen (Germany)
- Joined the law firm in 2026
Memberships
- Niedersächsisches Justizprüfungsamt for the Second State Examination in Law
- Board of Trustees „Women Political Leaders“
- Board of Directors of the Association of the Freunde des Sprengel Museum Hannover e.V.
Expertise
Labor law
- Employee data protection
- Criminal labor law
- Employment agreements
- Termination agreements
- Fixed-term employment
- Plant closures and restructuring
- Recruitment consulting
- Company pension schemes
- Works agreements
- Industrial constitution law and collective bargaining law (including negotiations with works councils and trade unions)
- Labor law compliance
- Due diligence
- Conciliation board procedures
- Judicial and out-of-court representation in labor law disputes
- International mergers/SE
- Reconciliation of interests and social plan
- Insolvency labor law
- International labor law
- Church labor law
- Termination including mass layoffs
- M & A
- Employee participation schemes
- Legal relationships of managing directors and board members
- Social security law
- Co-determination
- Restructuring of companies and businesses