Angelika Schmid

Rechtsanwältin (Lawyer), Partner


Angelika Schmid

Angelika Schmid is a member of Noerr’s Employment & Pensions and Tax practice groups in our Munich office. She is qualified in German and Czech law and helped establish our office in Prague from 1994. Angelika’s main practice areas since 2002 include cross-border employment relationships, international secondments and related employment, social security as well as tax, residence and work permit law. As a result of her day-do-day client work for a large number of international companies and institutions, she has profound specialist knowledge, direct contact with authorities and continuously up-to-date experience in the practical handling of foreign postings. Another of Angelika’s specialisations are compliance issues with regard to social security and illegal employments matters. Angelika regularly holds lectures and client seminars on subjects around international secondments and cross-border payroll issues and actively liaises with specialised institutions in this area. She also publishes manuals and other guidelines on these topics.

Distinctions

  • Handelsblatt / Best Lawyers in Germany since 2023
    Recommended Lawyer for Employee Benefits Law, Labor and Employment Law
  • JUVE Steuermarkt - HR Steuern
    Often Recommended - since 2022

Career

Studied law at the University of Passau
Studied Czech law at the University of Prague (Czech Republic), Czech and Russian at the Universities of Passau and Prague and in Moscow (Russian Federation)
Experience abroad: studied law and worked as a lawyer in Prague and Moscow
Lectures at the University of Passau
Worked at the Prague office as an "advokátka" until 1998
At Noerr since 1994
Admitted to the Munich Chamber of Lawyers

Lectures

  • Lectures on different aspects of employee secondments of employees, employing of foreigners in Germany and assigning employees abroad
  • Lectures on international social insurance issues
  • Lectures on compliance related issues when engaging external service personnel (as well as freelancers)
  • Lectures on cross-border employee assignments and connected payroll issues
  • Lectures on German residence law

Publications

  • Sonderband – Einsatz ausländischer Mitarbeiter in Deutschland (published by Bayerischer Unternehmensverband Metall und Elektro e. V.), issue 9, 2021
  • Scheinselbständigkeit als Compliance-Thema, in: ZWH 11/2016
  • Information for employers on the employment of Ukrainian employees in Germany, in: UKuR 2022, 146