Mag. Simone Liebmann-Slatin, MSc. joined Baker McKenzie as a partner in 2003. Since 2011, Ms. Liebmann-Slatin is a senior counsel in the Vienna office and is a member of the employment law practice group. She regularly delivers presentations on issues related to employment law in Austria, and is an active contributor to various publications, webinars and workshops.
Philipp Maier is partner and head of the Baker McKenzie Employment Law Practice Group in Vienna. He joined Baker McKenzie Austria in 2009 as associate of the employment law practice group. Prior to that Philipp worked for several years in the employment law department of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and in the litigation department of Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte. He also completed an internship at Aichelin Heat Treatment Systems (Detroit, USA).
Victoria Fink joined the Vienna Baker McKenzie office as a junior associate in January 2019. Before joining the Firm, she gathered experiences as a junior associate in a renowned Vienna law firm for several years, where her main focus was on litigation, also before labor courts. Victoria passed the Austrian bar examination in 2020.
Andrea Haiden is Senior Associate in Vienna and has over eight years of legal experience in Employment Law. She has a strong focus on multinational clients of all industrial levels and advises them on all aspects of employment law in domestic and international context alike.
Her fields of expertise concern employment and pension related work in transactional projects, including post-integration work, restructurings, negotiations with employee representative bodies, employment related compliance and litigation matters, cross-border employment and immigration, as well as compensation matters. Andrea Haiden is currently doing her dissertation on transactional aspects of pension schemes at the University of Vienna.
Silvia Samek is an associate of Baker McKenzie's Practice Group Employment Law in Vienna. Prior to joining the Firm in December 2020, she completed her legal clerkship at various courts in Vienna and gained experience as a trainee in several renowned Austrian law firms. Silvia studied business law at the Vienna University of Economics as her main study. Additionally, she studied Executive Management at the FHWien University of Applied Sciences of WKW and European Economy and Business Management at the University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna.
