Mr Depel is a lawyer and specialist lawyer for labour law. Inter alia, he is an expert in all matters relating to the Industrial Constitution Act and collective labour law and regularly represents national and international employers in negotiations with the workers’ council as an assessor in arbitration committees and in decision procedures of the labour courts. Furthermore, he supports clients in all issues relating to individual labour law and in the drafting of executives’ contracts of employment.
In addition, he advises particularly international investors in real estate transactions. Furthermore, he also deals with issues relating bankruptcy law.
He regularly holds lectures on topics relating to both labour law and the statutory investment conditions in Germany at home and abroad and has also published numerous articles in these fields.
- Studied history, philosophy and law at the Universität Passau and the Freie Universität Berlin from 1987
- 1992 Advisor with the Treuhandanstalt (Trust Agency)
- 1992-1995 Internship, among others with the Investitionsbank Berlin
- 1993-1995 Grading assistant at the Chair for Public Law for Univ. Prof. Dr. H. Lecheler, Freie Universität Berlin
- 1994-1996 Legal staff member / lawyer with the Law Firm Hanns-Ekkehard Plöger, Lawyer and Notary
- 1995 Admission as a lawyer
- 1996-1998 Lawyer with the Law Firm Dr. Lehmann-Brauns, Dr. Mahlo and Partner, Lawyers and Notaries
- 1998-2004 Partner of the Sozietät Weih, Lawyers and Notary
- 2002 Specialist Lawyer for Labour Law
- 2004-2019 Partner with MELCHERS
- since 2020 Lawyer with Wollmann & Partner Rechtsanwälte mbB
Memberships
- 1995-1999 Member of the Bezirksverordnetenversammlung (Community Board) in Berlin-Zehlendorf (Construction Planning Committee and Finance Committee)
- Deutscher and Berliner Anwaltverein (German and Berlin Lawyers’ Association)
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Fachanwälte für Arbeitsrecht (Association of the Specialist Lawyers for Labour Law)
- DGAP – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V. (German Council on Foreign Relations, registered association)
- German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce
Publikationen und Vorträge
- Nienhaus/Depel/Raif/Renke, Praxishandbuch „Zuwanderung und Arbeitsmarkt“, C.H. Beck-Verlag, Munich 2006
- Depel, “Ordentliche Kündigung wegen Minderleistung”, Anmerkungen zu BAG, Urteil vom 11.12.2003, 2 AZR 667/02, in: Sammlung Arbeitsrechtlicher Entscheidungen (SAE), issue 2/2005, p. 83 et seqq.
- Depel, “Geheimhaltungspflicht des Betriebsrats”, Betrieb und Wirtschaft 2004, p. 523 et seqq.
- Depel, “Kündigung in der Insolvenz – Personalabbau durch die Insolvenzverwalter”, Betrieb und Wirtschaft 2004, p. 299 et seqq.
- Depel, “Betriebliche Kleiderregeln – Was müssen die Arbeitsparteien beachten”, Betrieb und Wirtschaft 2004, p. 120 et seqq.
- Depel, “Schranken der Abwerbung von Arbeitnehmern”, Betrieb und Wirtschaft 2003, p. 1003 et seqq.
- Depel, “Die grobe Beleidigung des Rechtsanwalts des Arbeitgebers als außerordentlicher Kündigungsgrund”, Betrieb und Wirtschaft 2003, p. 920 et seqq.
Lectures/workshops:
- September 2016: “Investitionsmöglichkeiten in den irischen Immobilienmarkt”, Irish Embassy in Berlin
- May 2015: “Four stages of acquisition of property from a legal point of view” Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Ghorfa), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- April 2010: “Management of Existing German Property Portfolios” at the German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Dublin
- February 2008: “Four stages of acquisition of property from a legal point of view”, German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Dublin
- January 2006: “The legal steps to property ownership in Germany”, German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Dublin
- March 2005: Seminar “Das neue arbeitsrechtliche Antidiskriminierungsgesetz und seine praktischen Auswirkungen”, within the scope of MELCHERS‘ annual conference on labour law, Heidelberg
- March 2004: Seminar “Beschäftigung von Arbeitnehmern aus den osteuropäischen EU-Beitrittsländern“, hosted by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Berlin
- November 2003: Seminar “Was müssen Arbeitgeber gegenüber dem Betriebsrat beachten”, hosted by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Berlin
