Marcus Kissel

Marcus is Partner in the Legal service line at our Cologne office. He has many years of experience in advising national and international companies of all sizes and in all industries on individual and collective labour law. He represents clients both in and out of court.

Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Marcus was a partner in the legal division of one of the Big4 and head of labour law Germany at an international law firm. .

Fields of expertise

• Litigation in all labour law matters 
• Labour law advice and support for M&A transactions
• Restructuring, post-merger advice and personnel reduction
• Analysis and identification of labour law risks and conflict potentials
• Corporate co-determination
• Employee participation models and retention programs
• Employee secondments and third-party deployment
• Labour-management disputes

Memberships

• Cologne Bar Association [Rechtsanwaltskammer Köln]

Publications

• Author of chapter 5.1 and co-author of chapter 5.2 in Redeker " Handbook of IT Contracts"