Volker Teigelkötter is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery Rechtsanwälte Steuerberater LLP, based in its Düsseldorf office. He heads the Firm’s German Labour and Employment Group, where his practice covers the entire spectrum of labour and employment law. His special focus is on restructuring and reorganizations, redundancy programs, plant closures and relocations, outsourcing, negotiations with employee’s representations on shop agreements and social plans, and other collective labour law issues. He regularly advises with regard to transaction related labour law and has vast experience in post-merger integration. In addition, Volker also advises on service agreements for board members, managing directors and senior executives, including pension schemes as well as incentive and bonus plans.

Volker advises inter alia
• one of the most important global retailing companies
• the world’s leading producer of lime and dolomite
• one of the world’s leading manufacturers of cutting machine tools
• one of the world’s leading manufacturers of vacuum pumps and systems
• one of the world’s leading manufacturers of textile machinery

Volker is admitted to the German Bar and a licensed labour law specialist (Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht). Volker is a member of the Association of Licensed Specialists for Labour law.

The JUVE Handbook 2010/11 for commercial law firms in Germany lists him as a highly recommended lawyer for employment.

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• Employee Benefits
• Employment - Germany
• Employment - Pan-European
• Germany
• Labor & Employment
• Privacy and Data Protection
• Privacy in the Workplace
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Restructuring & Insolvency - Germany

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