Protection of Trade Secrets

Provides comprehensive advice to companies in patent litigation, including litigation involving standard-essential patents (SEPs) and FRAND defenses, and on license negotiations.

Has extensive experience handling proceedings before the European Unified Patent Court (UPC), having handled a large number of cases there.

Provides advice in other areas of intellectual property law, drawing on his many years of experience.

Dr. Thomas Gennert advises national and international companies on all aspects of individual and collective employment law as well as on Corporate Governance matters and compliance-related questions.

He advises executive boards, managing directors, supervisory boards, and other corporate bodies on the preparation of compensation systems, the negotiation of service and termination agreements, on liability issues, and in the area of corporate co-determination.

Thomas is working in the context of internal investigations and on employee data privacy aspects.

He also represents clients in employment law disputes in court and in arbitration proceedings.

Thomas regularly publishes articles on employment law aspects and is a lecturer at the Governance Academy.

Before joining McDermott, he worked for an international law firm in Düsseldorf and New York.