Partner

Christoph Wolf

Languages

English
German

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 delivers services of a very high standard and provides us with outstanding support.

Chambers Europe 2026
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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

COVID-19 und Arbeitsrecht: Möglichkeiten abseits der Kurzarbeit, CMS, 26.3.2020.
Update Arbeitsrechtspaket „Coronavirus“, CMS, 16.3.2020.
Coronavirus: Update Arbeitszeit und Teleworking, CMS, 14.3.2020.
Coronavirus: Fragen und Antworten zum Arbeitsrecht, CMS, 12.3.2020.
Wolf/Scharf, in Köck/Sonntag (Hrsg), ASGG – Arbeits- und Sozialgerichtsgesetz §§ 144–146, 159 ArbVG ( 2020).

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

Practice Areas

Employment, Labour & Pensions Compliance

sectors

Medical Law

Insights by Christoph

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Newsletter Austria

Supreme Court on Business Closure: Protection of Works Council Members Even Without a Workforce?

09 Jun 2026 3 min read

Podcast Austria

Pay Transparency: Quo Vadis?

28 May 2026 1 min read

Event Austria

CMS Employment Snack – Entgelttransparenz: Quo Vadis?

26 May 2026