HAMBURG, Germany (October 4, 2016) – Littler Global member vangard, a leading labor and employment law firm in Germany, has added Tobias Berdesinski as a partner to its growing German platform. Formerly a partner at Ruge • Krömer, Berdesinski focuses his practice on retirement plans, employee benefits and pensions, and also specializes in co-determination rights of employees and business restructuring.

"vangard is a fantastic firm in which I have the opportunity to continue building the corporate retirement and pensions practice,” said Berdesinski.

With the addition of Berdesinski, the Hamburg office now has seven labor and employment lawyers, including four partners. vangard has rapidly grown throughout Germany since it simultaneously opened its first offices in Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Munich in 2013, followed by Berlin in 2014, now with 16 partners and 13 associates across all offices. The band of four vangard offices joined the Littler Global network in October 2015 as Littler’s first location in Europe, together serving multinational clients’ evolving needs.

Littler’s international operations span three continents, and include offices in Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. The firm’s global capabilities also include U.S.-based lawyers with exceptional international experience, who are dually licensed practitioners in Australia, Brazil, China, the United Kingdom and South Africa, among other countries.

About vangard

Founded in 2013 by leading specialists in the field of employment law, vangard has quickly grown to 30 lawyers practicing in four offices across Germany: Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Munich. vangard represents foreign companies on their employment law matters within Germany and German companies on their employment law questions with a foreign context. The firm and its attorneys have been recognized as leaders in labor and employment law in Germany by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Who's Who Legal and Juve.

About Littler

Littler is the largest global employment and labor law practice, with more than 1,000 attorneys in over 70 offices worldwide. Littler represents management in all aspects of employment and labor law and serves as a single-source solution provider to the global employer community. Consistently recognized in the industry as a leading and innovative law practice, Littler has been litigating, mediating and negotiating some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record for over 70 years. Littler Global is the collective trade name for an international legal practice, the practicing entities of which are separate and distinct professional firms.