As a member of the Employment department Dr. Timo Karsten provides legal guidance to national and international companies on collective and individual employment and labor law issues. One of his main concerns is issuing strategies and implementing of company reorganizations and restructurings including the protection of company's interests in the field of the shop's committee and social partnerships. Furthermore, Timo Karsten has special expertise in designing and negotiating collective agreements, a topic that he already discussed in greater detail as to wage agreements governed by the law of obligation and non-exempt social partnership agreements in his doctoral thesis.

Timo also has sound experience in international trade law. Due to his good business connections to Northern Europe - Finnish is his second mother language - he supervises clients from Finland and Scandinavia on their business activities in Germany and on cross-border law issues.

Timo Karsten qualified in 2000 and started his career with renowned law firms before joining the Osborne Clarke team in the middle of 2005. Within the framework of a secondment he also acted for one of the leading Finnish law firms. He publishes and regularly lectures on employment and labor law issues.