Ulrich Ziegler

Ulrich Ziegler


Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Recognized since 2016

Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Practice Areas

Labor and Employment Law

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Dr. Ulrich Ziegler is a certified lawyer focusing on labour law with more than 25 years of experience in the field. He provides advice to both German and foreign companies in individual as well as collective labour law issues and in labour law disputes with employees and employee representatives.

Dr. Ziegler has significant experience with the employment-related aspects of M&A and cross-border transactions, and restructuring measures, such as site closures and plant relocations, including mass terminations. His tasks include advising on hiring and terminating employees; drafting service agreements with managing directors and board members; negotiating with employee representatives and representation bodies; drafting, implementing and amending bonus, commission and compensation plans; and representing undertakings in tariff and collective bargaining agreements, including the negotiation of company tariffs.

Location
  • TaunusTurm
    Taunustor 1
    Frankfurt/Main 60310
    Germany

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Germany 2024 for work in:
  • Labor and Employment Law

Transactions
Representative clients, cases and matters include:
  • WT Microelectronics Co., Ltd., a semiconductor components distributor headquartered in Taiwan, in its $3.8 billion acquisition of Future Electronics Inc., a Canada-based global distributor of electronic components
  • Trimble in:
    • the sale and contribution of its agriculture business to a joint venture with AGCO Corporation, as well as AGCO’s US$2 billion acquisition of an 85% stake in the joint venture
    • its €1.9 billion acquisition of Transporeon, a leading cloud-based transportation management software platform, from Hg
  • advising Samsung SDS, Mercuri Urval AB, Celonis SE, Canyon Bicycle GmbH, Covatec SE and Sompo International in connection with employment issues
  • Hg in connection with its significant minority investment, alongside EQT and TA Associates, in IFS and WorkWave, two cloud-based software services businesses, at a US$10 billion valuation
  • Dell GmbH in its sale of Boomi Business and negotiations with a German works council

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