Moritz Coché

Employment LawInsolvency and Restructuring

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Moritz Coché

Experience

Moritz Coché advises and represents national and international companies in all areas of individual and collective employment law. His particular area of expertise is advising on company pension schemes (betriebliche Altersversorgung, bAV). In addition to litigation, this includes in particular structural advice on the restructuring of pension schemes (de-risking), the introduction, modification and replacement of pension schemes and commitments as well as pension law advice in the course of M&A transactions. A further focus of his work is employment law advice on corporate restructurings, in particular insolvency-related restructurings, and strategic advice on collective employment matters, in particular collective bargaining law.

Mr. Coché is a member of the Insolvency Law and Restructuring team at Oppenhoff.
 

Education

Moritz Coché has been a lawyer at Oppenhoff since 2021. He studied law at the University of Cologne with a focus on employment law. Prior to his legal internship, Moritz Coché already worked as a research assistant in Oppenhoff's employment law practice group. 

Moritz Coché's legal training included internships in Oppenhoff's employment law department and in the people & reward/employment law department of the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Düsseldorf.

Moritz Coché is a member of the German Lawyers Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein e. V., DAV), the Employment Law Working Group of the DAV and the Company Pensions Working Group of the aba.

Moritz Coché

Junior PartnerRechtsanwalt

Languages
German, English

Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 23
50668 Cologne
T +49 221 2091 614
M +49 151 7037 8228

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Articles and Essays

Nachvertragliche Wettbewerbsverbote mit Geschäftsführern an der Schnittstelle zwischen BGH und BAG [Post-contractual non-competition clauses with managing directors at the interface between the German Federal Court of Justice and the German Federal Labour Court]
DER BETRIEB dated 18 November 2024, Issue 47, pp. 2896-2900 (in collaboration with Lisa Striegler)

Keine Umwandlung des Arbeitsverhältnisses eines Fremdgeschäftsführers in freies Dienstverhältnis durch Unternehmensumwandlung [No conversion of the employment relationship of an external managing director into a managing director’s service relationship through a corporate reorganisation]
DER BETRIEB dated 14 October 2024, Issue 42, pp. 2555-2556 (in collaboration with Dr. Philipp Heinrichs)

Rückforderung von Sonderleistungen im Arbeitsverhältnis [Reclaiming special benefits in the employment relationship]
DER BETRIEB dated 29 January 2024, Issue 05, pp. 253-257 (in collaboration with Lisa Striegler)

Neue Anforderungen und Möglichkeiten im Teilzeitrecht [New challenges and possibilities in part-time law]
DER BETRIEB dated 28 August 2023, Issue 35, pp. 2051-2055 (in collaboration with Dr. Alexander Willemsen)

BAG zur Lohngleichheit für Minijobber: Geringfügigkeit ja, aber bitte nicht beim Stundenlohn [German Federal Labour Court on equal pay for mini-jobbers: minor in character yes, but please not in terms of hourly wage]
Legal Tribune Online dated 19 January 2023