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Christoph Wolf is a lawyer for employment law. He is a partner at CMS and heads the employment law team together with Bernhard Hainz. 

For more than 20 years, Wolf has advised companies in judicial and extrajudicial labour law matters, including the implementation of restructuring measures, the negotiation of works agreements and social plans, and the settlement of disputes with works councils and employees. He also focuses on assisting former state-owned enterprises and handling various labour law issues in the area of compliance projects. He also advises clients on working time law and legal issues related to the international secondment of employees, as well as on all compliance-related labour law issues. 

Wolf teaches labour and social law as an honorary professor at the law faculty of the University of Vienna. 

Awards & Recognitions
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    "Christoph Wolf has not only built up a great team, but is also taking on a pioneering role in this area."
    Chambers European 2025
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    „Ein Urgestein im Arbeitsrecht, hat ein großartiges Team aufgebaut.“
    JUVE, 2024
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    „Kennt sich im Bereich Universitäten hervorragend aus, bietet gut aufbereitete, rechtliche Stellungnahmen.“
    JUVE, 2024
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    „Sehr hohes fachliches Niveau."
    JUVE, 2024
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    "Christoph Wolf provides support in complex employment law issues with excellent expertise. He has a lot of experience in representing clients in court."
    Chambers Europe, 2024
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    "Christoph Wolf: high level of expertise, very solution oriented, explains complex cases very well also to non-legal audiences."
    The Legal 500, 2023
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    "He has high levels of professional knowledge and offers excellent cooperation that is also good at an interpersonal level."
    Chambers Europe, 2023
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    Christoph Wolf, excellent expertise, communication and problem solving skills.
    Legal 500 EMEA, 2022

Publications

Memberships & Roles

  • President of the Hans Schmitz Society
  • Austrian Bar Association

Awards & Rankings

  • Hall of fame, Legal 500 EMEA, 2024
  • Tier 1 ranking for the employment law practice group, practice heads: Bernhard Hainz; Christoph Wolf, Legal 500 EMEA, 2022. 
  • Having been recommended by Chambers as a leading expert in the field of employment law for a number of years, he rose to Band 1 in 2017, becoming the second employment law partner in Vienna to top this ranking. 
  • The German business newspaper Handelsblatt ranks Christoph Wolf among the best lawyers in labour law and in the legal field of conflict resolution. Wolf was also awarded the title of Lawyer of the Year for labour law (Best Lawyers Ranking 2020). 
  • Christoph Wolf was nominated as Acritas Star in 2021. 

Education

  • 1999 - Dr. iur., Law, University of Vienna 

Insights by Christoph

CMS Employment Snack

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

Matrix: boundaries are a thing of the past

23 Mar 2026 1 min read

Unable to work due to flight cancellations

09 Mar 2026 2 min read

On the road again – the field service

27 Jan 2026 1 min read
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