Dr. Nicole Elert

Partner | Workforce Transformation, Head of Employment Law and HR Deals Düsseldorf

Address

PwC Legal

Georg-Glock-Straße 22

40474 Düsseldorf

Contact

Mobile  +49 151 12228930

Email  E-Mail

Qualification

  • Specialist lawyer (Fachanwältin) for employment law since 2006
  • Lawyer (Rechtsanwältin) since 2002

Expertise

  • Deals & transactions
  • Management boards, managing directors and supervisory boards
  • Legal tech and legal managed services

Languages

  • German
  • English
I offer

About me

Nicole Elert advises German and international investors as well as C-level executives at companies regarding all strategic HR topics relating to mergers and acquisitions as well as restructuring and transformation in the context of corporate transactions. She has more than 20 years of experience in employment law with a focus on negotiation and communication strategy. She and her interdisciplinary team have developed and launched the HR Analyst (a HR tool for planning personal costs, including in times of crisis), the PwC Immigration & Employment Assistant (one of the first legal chatbots on the German law firm market) as well as the HR Litigation Dashboard for the visualisation of labour court proceedings and the Whistleblower and Ethics Reporting Channel.

Memberships

  • Anwaltverein Düsseldorf
  • Arbeitsgemeinschaft Arbeitsrecht
  • Marketing Club Köln/Bonn
Career
  • 2019-2022: responsible for the area of Legal Technology & Transformation, PwC Legal AG, Düsseldorf
  • 2011-2022: member of the Leadership Team, PwC Legal AG, Düsseldorf; Since 2010: Partner
  • Since 2007: PwC Legal, Düsseldorf
  • Until 2007: partner at a law firm specialising in medium-sized enterprises, Cologne
  • Until 2005: employed at an international business law firm, Frankfurt am Main
Publications
  • Aufsichtsrat im kommunalen Unternehmen, VKU Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2017
  • Expats in Germany - Inbound and Outbound - Questions frequently asked by foreigners, Verlag De Gruyter, 2017
  • German Employment Law - 618 Questions Frequently asked by Foreigners, Verlag De Gruyter, Berlin 2013
  • Buchreihe: Aufsichtsrat im kommunalen Unternehmen, VKU Verlag, Berlin 2017
  • Banking Business in Germany - 5th revised edition, Fachverlag Moderne Wirtschaft, 2016
  • Praxishandbuch Auslandseinsatz von Mitarbeitern - Die optimale Gestaltung aus Unternehmersicht, Verlag De Gruyter, Berlin 2013
  • Praxishandbuch Flexible Einsatzformen von Arbeitnehmern - Der rechtssichere Umgang mit atypischen Beschäftigungsverhältnissen für Unternehmer, Verlag De Gruyter, Berlin 2012