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Wolf Theiss

SCHUBERTRING 6, 1010 VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Tel:
Work +43 1 515 10
Fax:
Fax +43 1 515 10 25
Web:
www.wolftheiss.com
Email:

The firm

Wolf Theiss opened its first office in Vienna in 1957 and soon established a reputation as one of Austria’s leading law firms. The firm has since grown into a multinational team of approximately 300 lawyers. It has offices* in Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Ukraine.

This presence on the ground is one of the firm’s key strengths. It works in a fast-moving part of the world that requires deep local knowledge and experience. By combining expertise with a strong international network, the firm is well-placed to handle complex cross-border transactions with a high degree of speed and flexibility.

Areas of practice

Wolf Theiss’ full range of services covers financial services, competition and antitrust, corporate/mergers and acquisitions, employment law, projects, intellectual property and information technology, litigation and alternative dispute resolution, real estate, regulatory and procurement, and tax.

The firm’s dedicated practice teams provide in-depth specialist knowledge in their respective areas, and are able to work closely together through a fully integrated network of 12 offices.

*As a technical aside, the firm has regulatory frameworks within which it needs to comply. So by ‘presence’, it is meant a legal form that is in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations in that country.

Contacts
Erik Steger, Richard Wolf, Nikolaus Paul (management board)
Andreas Theiss (senior partner)

Languages
Albanian
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Croatian
Czech
English
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Polish
Romanian
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish

Other offices
Belgrade
Bratislava
Bucharest
Budapest
Kiev
Ljubljana
Prague
Sarajevo
Sofia
Tirana
Zagreb

Number of lawyers 300

at this office 150

Above material supplied by Wolf Theiss.

Legal Developments by:
Wolf Theiss

  • EU TRANSACTION TAX: ADDITIONAL BURDENS ON BANKS?

    The finance ministers of the European Union met again last week to discuss the plan of introducing a single EU financial transaction tax. According to the plan, a 0.1 percent tax would be levied on bond and capital transactions, while a 0.01 percent tax would be charged on derivatives transactions.
    - Wolf Theiss

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