Dr ChristianBloth

• Senior Counsel at kallan Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft (since 2025)
• kallan Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft (partner from 2016 to 2024)
• Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå AB (1991-2016, partner from 1999 to 2016)
• Employment law specialist (2001)
• Legal clerkship (Referendariat ), 2. Staatsexamen (1987-1990)
• University Münster, Dr. jur.
• University of Stockholm, LLM
• Freie Universität Berlin, University Münster, 1. Staatsexamen

German (native), English, Swedish

Negotiation of numerous restructuring projects, in particular negotiation with employee representations (works councils and trade unions) and management buy out, in various industries as furniture industry, paper industry, chemical industry, shipping, medical industry and mechanical engineering.

Publications

• Product Liability in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (Heidelberg 1992, in German)
• Chapters on Product Liability in Sweden, Norway, Denmark in Graf von Westphalen (editor), Produkthaftungshandbuch (Munich 1999, in German)
• Aspects of Scandinavian and German Product Liability – A Comparison, in Scandinavian Studies in Law, Volume 39, published by the Stockholm's University Law Faculty, 2000 (in English)
• Ausdehnung und Verschärfung der Produkthaftpflicht in Schweden, Produkthaftpflicht International 1987, S. 209
• The Environmental Liability Act and the Environment Insurance in Sweden, Natur+Recht, 1991, p. 371 subseq. (in German)
• The Finnish Environmental Liability Act, Produkthaftpflicht International 1995, p. 202 subseq. (in German)
• Recent Developments of Product Liability in Sweden and Denmark, Produkthaftpflicht International 2002, p. 32 subseq. (in German)
• Numerous articles on labour law matters in Deutscher Anwaltspiegel (online publication)

Lectures

• Frequent speaker on labour law at various institutions as Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Germany, Chambers of Industry and Commerce in the Rhine Main Area and training/education seminars of HR departments.

• Handelsblatt/The Best Lawyers in Germany in the field of employment law (2021-26)

Ehrenämter und Auszeichnungen

• Honorarkonsul des Landes Schweden in den Ländern Hessen, Rheinland-Pfalz und Saarland seit 1999   www.schwedisches-konsulat-frankfurt.de
• Kommandeur des Königlich Schwedischen Nordsternordens (2015)
• Ernennung zum Honorargeneralkonsul Schwedens (März 2017)

Memberships

• Mitglied des Stiftungsrats der Diakonie Hessen, 2025
  seit 2026 dessen Vorsitzender, Sinn stiften
• Verband deutscher Arbeitsrechtsanwälte (VDAA)
• European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA)
• Deutsch-Nordische Juristenvereinigung (DNJV)