Volker Teigelkötter

Overview

Volker Teigelkötter advises clients on the entire spectrum of German and European employment law.

He has particular experience in restructuring and reorganization, downsizing, closure and relocation of businesses, outsourcing of business activities, negotiations with employee representatives on works agreements and social plans, and other issues of collective labor law.

Results

Volker advised:

A grocery chain on the worldwide rollout of a new sample employment contract for directors
A leading manufacturer of small arms on serious offenses committed by a number of employees; work included counseling during internal investigations and employment litigation
A leading manufacturer of tooling machines on the relocation of part of its headquarter to Switzerland
A media group on the employment law aspects of a large second-source outsourcing project
A retail company during negotiations with trade unions on a collective restructuring agreement
A US company on the acquisition and the post-merger integration of the beef snack business of a multinational company

Recognitions

Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™ Germany 2020-2023: Leading Lawyer for Employee Benefits Law and Labor and Employment Law
JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2022/2023: Recommended for Employment Law (“very good; great experience in complex restructurings”, competitor)
The Legal 500 EMEA/Germany 2018-2022: Recommended for Employment Law (“very profound and at the same time very pragmatic”, 2022; “High level of commitment, trustworthiness, broad expertise with very in-depth specialist knowledge, can also convey complex issues in a clearly understandable manner, quick to very fast response time, comprehensive view of the respective facts”, 2021)
JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien 2020/2021: Recommended for Employment Law (“excellent professional competence, great experience with complex restructurings”, competitior)