Dr Johannes Aehrenthal > Cerha Hempel > Vienna, Austria > Lawyer Profile
Cerha Hempel Offices
PARKRING 2
1010 VIENNA
Austria
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Dr Johannes Aehrenthal
Work Department
Corporate & Commercial
Position
Partner
Head of Department Corporate & Commercial
Areas of practice:
Career
Admitted 2001, (Attorney at Law), Austria
Positions: Lecturer on “Europäische Wirtschaft und Unternehmensführung”, subject area Mergers & Acquisitions, Polytechnic College of bfi Vienna.
Johannes Aehrenthal has comprehensive and long-standing experience in advising Austrian and international clients in numerous cross-border M&A and real estate transactions in Austria and the CEE region.
He is advising both industrial investors as well as private equity and venture capital investors, funds and real estate developers. Furthermore Johannes Aehrenthal advices privat clients, such as industry tycoons in the structuring of their subsidiaries and on the transfer of their wealth to their heirs.
Languages
German, English
Memberships
- Vienna Bar Association
- International Bar Association
- Lex Mundi – The World’s Leading Association of Independent Law Firms
Education
University of Vienna (Mag. iur. 1995, Dr. iur. 1998)
University of Nottingham (LL.M. 1997)
Lawyer Rankings
Austria > Commercial, corporate and M&A
‘One of the leading teams in the country’, Cerha Hempel operates across the whole spectrum of high-volume sales, acquisitions, and corporate governance advice. In particular, the team offers notable experience with transactions across the CEE region and regularly works with experts from the firm’s international offices on cross-border transactions. The ‘brilliant’ Clemens Hasenauer heads the corporate transaction department, while the corporate & commercial practice stands under the leadership of Johannes Aehrenthal. Albert Birkner
leads the takeover & antitrust practice and praised by clients as ‘the best M&A lawyer in Austria’, with his practice also including corporate reorganizations and joint ventures. Alexander Reich-Rohrwig, Jakob Hartig, and Christoph Reiter were promoted to partner in 2023. Nadine Leitner is further important member of the team.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: white-collar crime (including fraud)
- Employment
- EU and competition
- Tax
Firm Rankings
- Administrative law and public sector
- Banking and finance
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution: commercial litigation
- Private client
- Projects and energy
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Construction
- Dispute resolution: arbitration and mediation
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- TMT
- Intellectual property