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Work Department
Banking & Corporate Finance.
Position
Partner
Areas of practice: Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Banking Regulatory, (AML and other) Compliance, Investment Funds, Payment Services and MiFID II, Investment Services, Insurance Regulatory and IDD
Career
Admitted 2001, (Attorney at Law) Austria
Peter is partner at Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati since 2005, with the firm since 1998, and leads our banking & insurance supervision and regulatory practice.
His areas of focus include banking and capital markets, banking regulatory including (AML) compliance, restructuring of banks, investment funds, payment services, investment services (MiFID II), insurance regulatory.
He advises Austrian licenced banks (SIs and LSIs), investment firms, insurances and fund management companies on compliance and regulatory law queries and was involved in the
establishment of the first bad bank in Austria.
Languages
German, English.
Member
Vienna Bar; European Community Studies Association Austria (ECSA); Austrian Association of Attorneys
Education
Erste Bank der Sparkassen AG (Bank Merchant's Exam 1992); University of Vienna (Mag. iur. 1986, Dr. iur. 1987)
Awards:
Leopold Kunschak-Forderungspreis 1994
Walther Kastner Prize 1992 and 1997
Austria
Banking and finance
Within: Banking and finance
Praised for its 'outstanding expertise', Cerha Hempel acts for lenders and borrowers on various finance transactions and has a strong profile for banking regulatory and compliance work. As an expert for regulatory and compliance issues, the 'outstanding' Peter Knobl frequently advises clients, including Spar-Finanz Bank and Commerzbank, on MiFID II matters, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance and banking secrecy issues. In the financing space, Volker Glas is advising Sberbank Europe on various LMA financings, including a guarantee facility agreement for Euro-Asfalt and a transfer of loan portfolios from Sberbank Hungary to Sberbank Europe and Thomas Zivny assisted Erste Group Bank with the refinancing of Immofinanz's Stop Shop portfolio. Edith Hlawati heads the team.
Capital markets
Within: Capital markets
Working in close co-operation with its banking and corporate finance teams, Cerha Hempel routinely assists Austrian real estate holding companies with capital market transactions but also acts for several other Austrian-listed companies, banks and investment firms. In recent highlights, Thomas Zivny and Volker Glas advised Buwog on its €300m rights offering, while Glas also handled S Immo's issuance of two fixed-coupon bonds totalling €150m, and assisted Voestalpine with the set-up of a base prospectus for a €1bn bond issuance programme and an inaugural issuance of €500m 1.375% senior notes. The group, which also includes Edith Hlawati, Clemens Hasenauer and 'go-to lawyer for regulatory matters' Peter Knobl, also handles delistings.