born in 1970; le­gal stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Tübin­gen and Cata­nia; PhD at the Hum­boldt-Uni­ver­si­ty Berlin; Recht­san­walt since 2001. Lec­tures amongst oth­ers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tübin­gen; pub­li­ca­tions and le­gal opin­ions on labour law and the law on ser­vice con­tracts re­lat­ed sub­jects.

Dr. Chmel pri­mar­i­ly coun­sels and rep­re­sents em­ploy­ers, as well as ex­ec­u­tives in all as­pects of in­di­vid­u­al and col­lec­tive labour law. The con­sul­ta­tion of for­eign in­ter­na­tion­al com­pa­nies with ac­tiv­i­ties in Ger­many and Eu­rope is one of his main fo­cus­es. Dr. Chmel is, in­ter alia, spe­cial­ized in the con­clu­sion and ter­mi­na­tion of em­ploy­ment con­tracts and ser­vice con­tracts of man­ag­ing di­rec­tors and board mem­bers, lit­i­ga­tion and re­struc­tur­ing in­clud­ing as­pects of col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing law such as the “es­cape” from col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing agree­ments. Fur­ther­more, Dr. Chmel has spe­cial ex­per­tise in the law ap­pli­ca­ble to com­mer­cial agents.