Mikes, Georg

Current Employment Position(s)

Of Counsel

Languages

• Czech
• English
• German

Lawyer Overview

Georg Mikes is a Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht (German labor law specialist) and has wide-ranging experience in labor and employment law. Before joining Jones Day, he acquired industrial experience while working in the legal department of a software giant and also practiced for several years in a smaller law firm, where he performed labor litigations at the labor courts and the appellate labor court.

Georg is currently head of the Frankfurt labor and employment law team. He works primarily on the labor aspects of transactions, but he also handles litigation against individual employees and employee representation organizations for Jones Day clients. In addition, his practice has focused on company pension issues, employment of executives, executive compensation, and European and private international law and its interconnection with labor law. As a result of this link, he has developed a subspecialization in employee data protection matters in domestic law, EU data protection legislature, co-determination, and data protection in due diligence. He has advised major companies in the chemical and pharmaceutical, automobile, telecommunication, metal, and banking industries on the use of temporary employees, the implementation of stock option plans, transfer of undertaking issues, and the scope of information requirements by employee members on a supervisory board.

Georg was born in Prague and is fluent in German, English, and Czech.

Areas of Practice

• Labor & Employment
• Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Privacy & Data Security
• European Labor Law
• M&A

Representative Cases

• Abbott Laboratories acquires BASF Pharma
• Abbott Laboratories acquires Kanoldt Arzneimittel GmbH , (2009)
• EDS sells business unit of A.T. Kearney
• ERICO sells production facilities of ERICO GmbH , (2009)
• EuroConex Technologies acquires Citibank European Merchant Acquiring Services
• Hansteen acquires €330 million German industrial portfolio
• Harman International acquires CAA AG
• Harman International acquires Nokia loudspeaker business , (2009)
• Harman International acquires TEMIC Sprachverarbeitung
• Harman International Industries acquires Innovative Systems GmbH Navigation Multimedia , (2009)
• Harsco Corp acquires Huennebeck Group for $170 million
• International Automotive Components acquires Stankiewicz and Gimotive , (2009)
• La Poste Française acquires Frankfurter Kreis' stake in Deutscher Paket Dienst
• Neoware Systems acquires eSeSIX assets , (2009)
• OM Group acquires Borchers
• Resilience Capital acquires business unit of Andrew Corporation , (2009)
• S.C. Johnson Commercial Markets acquires DiverseyLever for $1.6 billion , (2009)
• Sodexo acquires Zehnacker Group , (2009)
• Sterling Software acquires Cayenne Software
• Sterling Software acquires Synon Corp
• Timken signs agreement to sell needle roller bearings business to JTEKT , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Affirmative Action -- Employee, Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employee, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Collective Bargaining, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) -- Employee, Employee Rights -- Employee, Employment Contracts -- Employee, Employment Discrimination -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employee, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employee, Federal Employer,'s Liability Act (FELA) -- Employee, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, International Law, Joint Ventures, Labor Arbitration, Labor Disputes, Labor Law, Labor Legislation, Labor Relations Boards & Proceedings, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Municipal Employment -- Employee, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) -- Employee, Partnerships, Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employee, Reorganizations, Sexual Harassment -- Employee, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations, Unfair Labor Practices, Unions, Wage & Hour Laws, Wage & Hour Laws -- Employee, Whistleblower -- Employee, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act -- Employee, Wrongful Termination -- Employee

Bar Admissions

• Frankfurt, Germany

Education

• U of Augsburg

Published Works

• Pension Issues on Asset Transfers: A European Perspective, 2010
• German Labor and Employment News, 2009
• German Labor and Employment News, 2009
• German Labor and Employment News, 2009
• German Labor and Employment News, 2009
• German Labor and Employment News, 2008
• Pensions Issues in European Mergers and Acquisitions, Cross-border Quarterly, 2008
• German Labor and Employment News, 2008
• German Labor and Employment News, 2008
• Pensions Issues in European Mergers and Acquisitions, 2007
• German Labor and Employment News, 2007
• German Labor and Employment News, 2007
• German Labor and Employment News, 2007
• German Labor and Employment News, 2007
• German Labor and Employment News, 2006
• German Labor and Employment News, 2006
• German Labor and Employment News, 2006
• German Labor and Employment News, 2006
• German Labor and Employment News, 2005
• German Labor and Employment News, 2005
• German Labor and Employment News, 2005
• German Labor and Employment News, 2005
• German Labor and Employment News, 2004
• German Labor and Employment News, 2004
• New Personnel Market with Stumbling Blocks, PERSONALmagazin, 2004
• German Labor and Employment News, 2004
• German Labor and Employment News, 2004

Address

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Thurn-und-Taxis-Platz 6
60313 Frankfurt am Main, Federal Republic of Germany

Phones

49.69.9726.3914 (Business Phone)

Faxes

49.69.9726.3993 (Business Fax)

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