Burkard Göpfert advises and negotiates complex transformation, integration and restructuring projects and supports social partners in solving difficult challenges. His main focus is on the metal, coal and steel and chemical industries and covers social plan, social collective bargaining and collective bargaining negotiations as well as the development of modern transformation units and companies. He is the author and (co-)editor of numerous specialist books on restructuring and employment law and is a lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance and the University of Passau. He has chaired the Handelsblatt's annual “Restrukturierung” conference for 20 years. Burkard Göpfert is, the co-editor of ZIP.