Dr. Ulrich Sittard

About Dr. Ulrich Sittard

Ulrich Sittard regularly advises on employment related restructuring and reorganisations, including the implementation of voluntary leaver programmes and negotiations with the works council and trade unions. Another focus is on employment aspects of M&A transactions and post-merger integration. He advises clients on employment law issues relating to digital transformation and digitalisation as well as the introduction of agile working methods in Germany and in an international context. He also regularly advises on issues relating to the use of external staff and complex negotiations with works councils on the introduction of IT tools including tools that use artificial intelligence. Recently, he has been advising clients on the employment law implications of the new EU AI Act and the implementation of an EU AI Act compliance system.

Furthermore, Ulrich Sittard advises on all issues of individual and collective labour law as well as in the area of occupational pension schemes.

Ulrich Sittard regularly appears as an author of employment law publications and as a lecturer on employment law topics. He is co-author of the "Henssler/Willemsen/Kalb - Employment Law Commentary" and the restructuring handbook "Willemsen/Hohenstatt/Schweibert/Seibt". He is also the author of the "Handbuch für das gesamte Tarifrecht" (Henssler/Moll/Bepler), the commentary "Arbeitsrecht der betrieblichen Altersversorgung" (Schlewing/Henssler/Schipp/Schnitker) and of the "BeckOGK Arbeitsrecht".

Ulrich Sittard is part of the board of Arbeitsgemeinschaft Arbeitsrecht im Deutschen Anwaltverein.

Ulrich Sittard speaks German and English.

Recent work

• Gategroup on the acquisition of Lufthansa's European airline catering business and the subsequent integration and tariff change
• DZ Bank on the sale of the Aviation Finance and Land Transport Finance business of the DZ Bank subsidiary DVB and the necessary pre-structuring under labor law
• Advising REWE on the employment aspects of the ministerial approval of a merger of competitors in the food retail sector and on the acquisition of parts of the Kaiser’s Tengelmann business in Germany
• Advising CVC Capital Partners on its acquisition of Douglas Holding
• Advising Ströer Media on the employment aspects of its acquisition of T-Online and Interactive Media
• Advising Vodafone on the introduction of agile working methods and on various issues of works constitution law
• RWE on the acquisition of the renewables business from innogy and E.ON
• RTL Deutschland GmbH on the acquisition of Gruner + Jahr and its integration into the RTL Group as well as various questions of works constitution law
• Gruner + Jahr in staff reduction
• Airbus on the acquisition of INFODAS
• Advising EQT on the employment and pension aspects of its acquisition of the building, real estate and facility business of Bilfinger and on the employment and pension aspects of its acquisition of the hearing aid business unit of Siemens and the corresponding carve-out
• EQT on divestment of Schülke & Mayr
• Grünenthal in a joint venture with Kyowa Kirin International and in the acquisition of a business unit from Bayer
• SEB on the acquisition of AirPlus from Lufthansa
• Kostal on the acquisition of the key assets of Compleo Charging Solutions AG
• Regular employment law advice on restructuring and downsizing measures, including the negotiation of reconciliation of interests and social compensation plans with the works council and negotiations with trade unions