Dr Viktoria Winstel advises national and international companies on matters of individual and collective employment law.

She focuses on matters of protection of continuance and protection from dismissal, contract formation, expert recruitment, and cross-border employee secondment. She is also specialised in the design and implementation of the content of social media guidelines in collaboration with companies’ co-determination committees.

After studying in Trier, Viktoria completed her legal traineeship with the Frankfurt Upper Regional Court. During the elective stage of her traineeship, she was employed with a worldwide financial services company in New York. She was already beginning to focus on employment law during her legal traineeship. Viktoria qualified as a lawyer in 2012 and joined Osborne Clarke’s Cologne office in 2013. In the winter semester 2014/2015 and summer semester 2015 she was a lecturer at the university Fresenius in Cologne.