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Recommendations by jurisdiction

Austria

Johannes Aehrenthal

Leading

Real estate (Austria)

Albert Birkner

Highly recommended

Corporate/M&A (Austria)
Busy lawyer with a wide variety of transactional experience of deals originating in both Eastern and Western Europe. Works consistently in related fields such as restructuring, take-overs and has extensive involvement with privatisations.

Recognised

Directors duties and liabilities (Austria)
Advises on all matters related to key areas of M&A, corporate and restructuring.

Julian Feichtinger

Leading           

Insurance (Austria)

 

Leading

 

Labour and employee benefits (Austria)
Advises major national companies and Austrian subsidiaries of multinationals on employment law issues. Experience advising IT multinational companies on M&A, takeovers and restructuring-related matters.

Volker Glas

Leading

Banking and finance (Austria)

Leading

Capital markets: debt and equity (Austria)

Clemens Hasenauer

Leading

Private equity/venture capital (Austria)

Highly recommended

Corporate/M&A (Austria)
Head of the Corporate Transactions Department. Manages transactions and corporate issues for a number of significant business clients.
Offers additional expertise on tax issues.

 

Recommended

Tax (Austria)
He concentrates on cross-border transactions and the tax aspects of structured and financial products.
He also provides tax advice on real estate transactions.

Edith Hlawati

 

Leading

Banking and finance (Austria)
Acknowledged leader for capital markets transactions. Good breadth of experience which includes advising on domestic and international deals.
Benefits from strong team of associates.

 

Leading

Capital markets: debt and equity (Austria)
Head of a busy banking and corporate finance department. She focuses on IPOs, privatisations and market increases and has a strong investment bank and corporate client base.

 

Leading

Corporate/M&A (Austria)
Head of banking and corporate finance. Highly regarded lawyer with a substantial knowledge of commercial law and transaction management. Considerable experience of M&A, privatisations, banking and capital markets

 

Leading

 

 

Telecommunications (Austria)

 

Recognised

Directors duties and liabilities (Austria)
Leads the banking and corporate finance department. Has long advised boards and CEOs at the highest level.

Peter Knobl

 

Leading

 

Banking and finance (Austria)

 

Leading

Investment funds (Austria)

Bernhard Kofler-Senoner

Leading

Competition/anti-trust (Austria)

Peter Lewisch

Leading

Competition/anti-trust (Austria)

 

Recommended

 

Dispute resolution: arbitration (Austria)
Known for his specialist expertise in environmental litigation and arbitration
.

Johannes Prinz

Recommended

Tax (Austria)
He has particular expertise in corporate and double taxation matters.

 

Michaela Siegwart

Leading

Insurance (Austria)

Benedikt Spiegelfeld

Recommended

Corporate/M&A (Austria)
Head of the corporate and commercial department. Practice is based around corporate and M&A work but also advises on franchising and arbitration.

 

Recognised

 

Directors duties and liabilities (Austria)
Extensive experience in the field. Sits permanently as the supervising member of a number of corporations.

Peter Vcelouch

Leading

Real Estate (Austria)

 

Recommended

 

Construction (Austria)
With a broad practice, he is well versed in acting on all types of construction projects.

Irene Welser

Leading

Insurance (Austria)

 

Leading

Highly recommended

 

Life sciences: product liability (Austria)

Dispute resolution (Austria)
Currently in charge of the firm's litigation department. Broad commercial litigation expertise; specialist areas include warranty law, damage claims and aviation.

Thomas Zivny

Leading

Capital markets: debt and equity (Austria)

Belarus

Sergei Makarchuk

 

Recommended

Corporate & commercial (Belarus)
Office managing partner.
Well regarded for his all-round corporate transactional acumen.

Bulgaria

Boyko Guerginov

Leading

Competition/ anti-trust (Bulgaria)

 

 

 

Source: PLC Which Lawyer?, 2009 Edition

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