• Expertise - Above-average performance in both exams is the basis of your professional expertise and is therefore generally preferred. A doctorate and/or a completed master's degree are not required, but are welcome. These qualifications can also be acquired in part-time programs at and with POELLATH.
• Language skills - A large part of our work takes place in an international market environment. Comprehensive knowledge of English is therefore desirable.
• Personality - There is no typical POELLATH professional. Rather, we look for:
  Interesting personalities | team players | communication talents | energetic | motivated | committed | people with determination
• Personal excellence - We value a level-headed approach to each other and in relation to the outside world. Our clients appreciate our sporting ambition and our pusuit of excellence, as well as our sound judgment and prudence. Our standard is to give our best every day and to act in an exemplary manner.

• Top training opportunity - Our new recruits learn on-the-job. We encourage our employees to take part in professional training and continuing education programs. In the first three years of their careers, each advisor is expected to complete 600 hours of continuing training. There are many opportunities to do so.
• Master’s degree - For continuing education through our practice-oriented postgraduate programs (LL.M./ EMBA) at the University of Münster. Wanderlust: Master’s programs abroad are also welcome. We will support you from establishing contacts with international universities to letters of recommendation and individualized working schedule agreements.
• Practical insights - Many of our advisors do secondments in other law firms or in companies of our clients. You will gain valuable insights into companies or establish contacts with friendly law firms.
• Non-legal skills - In our four-year Non-legal Skills Program, you will learn everything that is required of you in addition to professional excellence. Project management, presentation techniques, negotiations with clients, self-management, leadership techniques, business development and the evolution of entrepreneurial skills, as well as the development of social competence – all these things make you an excellent advisor.
• Personal exchange - We learn from each other. In our internal mentoring program you will receive individualized feedback and will be introduced to our daily work routine by experienced colleagues. Meetings with all offices, training sessions and events, such as the annual training weekend and monthly jour fixes. Each event offers plenty of opportunity to exchange ideas with colleagues at every career level. We see ourselves as a team where knowledge and experience are shared.

„The private equity industry has grown a conscience in recent years. Investments without a view to sustainability and social responsibility are almost inconceivable.“

„Be curious, but relaxed.“

„When I look forward to going to work in the morning and spending time with my young daughter in the afternoon.“

“We see that harmonising the interests of the family shareholders is becoming increasingly difficult and often ends in disputes. If a family has decided to continue the family business, often the third generation is already involved in the business and the group of shareholders has grown considerably. In addition, the large group of shareholders often includes, on the one hand, shareholders who are still closely connected to the business and partly carry out operational activities there, and, on the other hand, those who have distanced themselves emotionally from the business and see their shareholding more as a source of income.”

“In the Private Clients advisory sector, the greatest challenge is to develop an understanding of the respective family situation in addition to the many legal and tax issues. Often, family conflicts are hidden under the surface until they are unleashed in the context of business succession. From an advisor’s point of view, it is then necessary to distinguish emotional conflicts from factual ones and to develop an understanding for the different levels with the clients, without, however, ignoring the relationship level as well.”

“Working as a legal advisor is an extremely time-intensive profession and will probably remain so. As a father of two, it is therefore particularly important for me to be able to work flexibly and, for example, not finalise an email until later in the evening, when I can have dinner with my family and my daughter can tell me about her day’s discoveries (my son will still need some time for that 😉 ).”