Public sector competence team

The public sector is characterized by future challenges.
Coping with social "megatrends" and the upcoming major transformation processes

  • climate change

  • Demographic change

  • Technological change

  • Shift in global economic power

  • urbanization

requires careful, realistic, proactive and holistic advice, especially at municipal level.

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Hannah Tiesler is the central coordinator in the public sector competence team at VOELKER & Partner mbB

Competence team

Competence team
public sector

Company law, municipal shareholdings; inter-municipal cooperation

Consulting examples:

  • M&A, transaction, restructuring, due diligence

  • Organizational forms of municipal companies

  • Economic activity of the public sector

  • Managing director liability

  • Supervisory board training

  • Special features of municipal companies

  • ESG, sustainability reporting

Planning and building

Examples of advice:

  • Public building law (urban land-use planning, approval procedures)

  • project developments

  • Planning approval procedures

  • Obligations of the public sector: GEG, EnEfG; KlimaSchG & Co.

  • Competitions; concept awards

  • Real estate transactions

  • Rental agreements

Energy, environment and transport

Consulting examples:

  • Area pooling

  • Aid and grant law (funding; GVFG;...)

  • Traffic turnaround (StVO and StVG reform; bicycle lanes; parking space management; Clean Vehicle Directive;...)

  • Contracting

  • ESG, sustainability reporting

  • Municipal heat planning

  • Compulsory connection and use

  • Urban transformation

The public sector as an employer

Examples of advice:

  • Collective bargaining law; TVÖD

  • Civil service law

  • Drafting employment contracts, supplementary agreements and collective working conditions

  • Instruments of employee management

  • compliance

  • Classification and job evaluation

  • Challenges of the shortage of skilled workers

  • Immigration of skilled workers ("blue" card)

  • Whistleblower protection law

IT law, press and data protection

Examples of advice:

  • Legal advice on press and personality rights,

  • Software and hardware procurement

  • Digitization projects

  • Digital pact for schools

  • Marketing and public relations

  • AI: legally compliant

  • Data protection compliance

Public procurement law

Consulting examples:

  • Awarding public contracts

  • Support and design of procurement procedures

  • Recommendations for action on procurement

  • PPP projects: Public Private Partnership

  • compliance

  • Conflict resolution

  • Legal protection under public procurement law

Municipal hospitals, municipal health care

Consulting examples:

  • Advice and representation of municipal hospitals

  • Outpatient treatment and cooperation with service providers

  • Securing healthcare provision in rural areas

  • Establishment and operation of medical care centers (MVZ)

  • Participation of municipalities in MVZs

  • Models for medical care in rural areas

  • Cooperative models

  • Legal issues in connection with health authorities

  • -Healthcare as a building block of neighborhood development

NPOs, church institutions, social institutions

Examples of counseling:

  • Tasks of the social service providers (SGB IX, VIII, XII, XIV)

  • Implementation of the Federal Participation Act

Administration & good governance

Examples of advice:

  • Legal representation before administrative courts, advice on matters of public law

  • General and special administrative law

  • municipal code

  • Administrative organization

  • Legal project management

  • compliance

Finances

Examples of advice:

  • Aid and grant law-budget law

  • Non-profit status

  • Crowdfunding, donations, limits of economic activity

  • Characteristics of public-law institutions

  • Liability cases for municipal investments

  • Creation of investment guidelines

  • compliance

  • Liability of public officials and criminal law

  • Tax law