Claudia Knuth
- Certified Specialist Lawyer in Employment Law
- Private lecturer at the Fresenius Academy
Expertise
- Individual and collective Employment Law
- Employment Law 4.0 "New Work"
- Flexible organisation of working time and implementation of modern remuneration models
- New forms of employment and digital transformation
- Deployment of external personnel (temporary employment/self-employment models/contracts for work and services)
- Cooperation with employee representative bodies
- Industrial Constitution Law and conciliation boards
- Support in transfer of undertakings
- Corporate transactions
- Legal representation of boards of directors, executive directors as well as managers
- Maritime Employment Law
Reputation
- Handelsblatt & Best Lawyers 2020: Claudia Knuth is one of the best lawyers in the field of Employment Law in Germany
- Legal 500 Germany 2020: recommended lawyer
career
- Studied law at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University
- Admitted to the bar in 2014
- 2014–2018 lawyer in a law firm specialized on Employment Law
- Since 2016 private lecturer at Fresenius Academy Hamburg in the range of Human Resources Management (M.A.)
- Since 2017 Certified Specialist Lawyer in Employment Law
- Since 2017 external speaker for Management training at the Deutsche Bahn AG
- Since 2018 lawyer at LUTZ | ABEL
- Ongoing doctorate at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University
Memberships
- Member of the nonprofit Greifswalder semiannual magazine for jurisprudence e.V.
- Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V. (German Bar Association)
- Hamburger Anwaltverein e.V. (Hamburg Bar Association)
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Arbeitsrecht im Deutschen Anwaltverein e.V. (Working Group on Employment Law in the German Bar Association)
One of the best lawyers in the field of Employment Law in Germany.
Handelsblatt & Best Lawyers 2021
News
LUTZ | ABEL advises AlphaPet Ventures in equity financing and acquisition
AlphaPet Ventures GmbH secures equity financing led by capiton AG and acquires Healthfood24.LUTZ | ABEL advises Munich based premium pet food company AlphaPet Ventures in both equity financing and acquisition.
The LUTZ | ABEL team led by Dr. Marco Eickmann and Philipp Hoene (both M&A/VC, Munich) included Dr. Sebastian Sumalvico (M&A/VC, Munich), Frank Hahn (M&A/VC, Hamburg), Dr. Marius Mann (Commercial, Stuttgart), Dr. André Schmidt (IP/IT, Hamburg), Claudia Knuth (Employment, Hamburg) and Sebastian Schreiber (Real Estate, Hamburg).
The transaction is subject to pending merger control approval.
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LUTZ | ABEL advises in EUR 17 Million Series B round of financing for Temedica
The healthcare start-up Temedica GmbH from Germany announced to have completed a € 17 million Series B financing round.The financing round was led by different MIG-Fonds, Santo Venture Capital, G+J Digital Ventures, Salvia and Bernd Wendeln as investors. LUTZ | ABEL advised on the transaction.
The German healthcare start-up Temedica GmbH, which is based in Munich and was founded by Gloria Seibert and Clemens Kofler, closed a € 17 million Series B financing round. MIG-Fonds, Santo Venture Capital and Salvia lead the round – existing shareholders like G+J Digital Ventures and Bernd Wendeln were additional investors.
Founded in 2016, the start-up develops digital companions (such as apps) to support patients in their healing process and to improve their medical care. Until today Temedica came up with the products pelvina (to strengthen the pelvic base), Mineo (to strengthen the back) as well as Waya (for a healthy nutrition and motion sequence). Further product developments are in the process of planning.
The LUTZ | ABEL team included the following attorneys: The partners Dr. Bernhard Noreisch (Munich) and Dr. Lorenz Jellinghaus (Hamburg) led the transaction. The team further consisted of Claudia Knuth (Employment Law, Hamburg), Andreas Kössel (Employment Law, Munich), Jan-Phillip Kunz (VC, Munich), Nina Sophie Osten (VC, Hamburg), Dr. Cornelius Renner (IT, Data Protection Law, Berlin), Ute Schenn (Commercial, Stuttgart), Dr. André Schmidt (IT, Data Protection Law, Hamburg).
The investors Santo Venture Capital and Salvia were represented by honert + partner (Sven Fritsche, Munich).
