Expertise

Litigators for Employment Law, Intellectual Property, Media Law & Copyright Law, Liability Law, Business Law & Corporate Law

ZELLER & SEYFERT is a German litigation law firm with attorneys who focus their legal work mainly on the representation of medium-sized and larger companies before German and European courts and before German and European authorities. Our litigation attorneys represent – amongst others – businesses, expats in Germany, entrepreneurs, chief executives, media representatives, event organizers and artists in selected areas of law. Our attorneys will fight for you or your company before German courts (mainly German civil courts and German labor courts) and German authorities, also before European Courts (EGC, ECJ, ECHR) and European authorities (in particular the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) and the European Patent Office (EPO)) as well as in international proceedings (e.g. before the WIPO).

Our attorneys represent their clients only in the following areas of law: Employment Law, Intellectual Property, Media Law & Copyright Law and Liability Law & Business Law & Corporate Law.

Litigators for Employment Law

In Employment Law and Employment Litigation, ZELLER & SEYFERT fights for companies as well as directors, officers and chief executives. Our attorneys will assist you or your company in particular in the following selected areas of Employment Law:

• Management Liability
• Competition and Enticement
• Internet and Employment Law
• Termination and Resignation (Severance Packages)
• Temporary Agency Work / Posting of Employees
• Pension Disputes (BAV)
• Works Councils / Employee Participation

Your contact person with ZELLER & SEYFERT for issues concerning Employment Law will primarily be Attorney at Law Dr. Christian Zeller. He has been working for many years in the field of Employment Law. He represents your interests and the interests of your company persistently and assertively in legal proceedings before German courts throughout Germany.

Litigators for Intellectual Property

ZELLER & SEYFERT is a German litigation law firm which has also specialized in the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights of companies and entrepreneurs in Germany and the EU. Such intellectual property rights are in particular:

• Trademarks
• Patents
• Utility Models
• Designs
• Plant variety rights

ZELLER & SEYFERT will also assist your company with the enforcement of the following IP rights:

• Rights in other signs and symbols, e.g. naming rights and the right to the legal business name of your company
• Right to the domain name of the website of your company
• Copyrights and neighboring rights

Our attorneys will also help your company to intercept counterfeited products which infringe on the intellectual property of your company right at the German border with the help of the German customs authorities (fight against product piracy). Our attorneys will have these pirated goods destroyed right at the German border. For more details on the issue please click on Border Seizure Procedures by the German Customs Authorities.

Another legal forte of ZELLER & SEYFERT is the German Competition Law. ZELLER & SEYFERT consult and represent companies and entrepreneurs mainly in the following areas of competition law in Germany:

• Law against Unfair Competition
• Law on Advertising in the Health Care System
• Information Obligations of Online Shops
• Law on Price Quotations in Advertising
• Youth Protection Law
• Gambling Law
• Privacy Law / Data Protection Law

Attorney at Law Dr. Christian Seyfert, LL.M. (USA) has fought for corporate clients for years in IP litigation as well as in competition law disputes before German and European courts (EGC, ECJ, ECHR) and before German and European authorities (OHIM and EPO). Christian is a Certified IP Law Specialist as well as a Certified Copyright & Media Law Specialist. He has dealt with IP cases and competition law disputes in Germany, in the EU and on an international scale for many years.

Litigators for Media Law & Copyright Law

In Media Law and Copyright matters, ZELLER & SEYFERT will represent you or your company in particular in the following legal areas:

• E-Commerce & Internet
• Film Law
• Music Law
• Entertainment Law – Events
• Performing Artists
• Copyright Law
• Publishing Law
• IT Law: Software Law and Computer Law
• Image Law & Photo Law
• Personality Rights (Defamation)
• Press Law

Attorney at Law Dr. Christian Seyfert, LL.M. (USA) and his team will deal with your media law or copyright case. Christian is a Certified Copyright & Media Law Specialist and a Certified IP Law Specialist. He has handled media law and copyright cases in Germany, in the EU and on an international scale for many years. In this regard Christian has represented in particular internet companies, event managers, film makers, media representatives, book publishers and music publishers, record labels, software producers, copyright owners of all kinds as well as persons and companies, which were infringed on their personality rights or the right to their economic appreciation. Christian represents you and your company before all German courts and all European courts (EGC, ECJ, ECHR).

Litigators for Liability Law, Business Law & Corporate Law

ZELLER & SEYFERT also works for companies, chief executives, directors, supervisory boards, shareholders and freelance partners in specific parts of the Liability Law, Business Law & Corporate Law. In this regard, our focus is on the following areas of law:

• Directors and Officers Liability
• Enticement and Competition (D&O)
• Shareholder Dispute
• Commercial Agents – Compensation Claims
• Commercial Disputes
• Professional Liability (E&O Claims)

Your contact person with ZELLER & SEYFERT for these legal areas (Liability Law, Business Law & Corporate Law) is Attorney at Law Dr. Christian Zeller. He enforces your interests and the interests of your company persistently before all German courts.

Contact

You can contact our law firm 24 hours per day and 7 days per week via telephone and via e-mail. Please just contact us: via telephone (+49 (0)69-58 80 972-40) and via e-mail (mail@zellerseyfert.com). By clicking on the vertical link bar on the left, you can also directly make an appointment with an attorney from our law firm. We look forward to talking with you.