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PwC Legal Austria-oehner & partner
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1220 Vienna
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PwC Legal Austria-oehner & partner > The Legal 500 Rankings

Austria > Private client Tier 4

Interdisciplinary advice on corporate, foundation, succession and private law frames PwC Legal Austria-oehner & partner‘s practice which acts for UHNWI, private foundations and family businesses in their transitions to next generations, M&A transactions, and restructuring processes. Christian Öhner heads the team, harnessing extensive corporate experience in advising on restructurings, and financial and strategic investments. Michael Lind is retained by private foundations, trusts, and HNI in corporate transactions and joint ventures.

Practice head(s):

Christian Oehner

Other key lawyers:

Michael Lind

Key clients

W.A.C.M. Privatstiftung

Founder of Dedicaid GmbH

JS North Asia Investments Limited forming part of the JS Group

Atomos

Owner Miraculix Business Beteiligungs GmbH

Schachinger

JCL

fangocur GmbH

Grüner Handels & Projekt GmbH

Work highlights

  • Advised W.A.C.M. Privatstiftung on the sale of Walter Mauser GmbH in an auction procedure to the Finnish Fortaco Group.
  • Advised on the exit of AI software developer Dedicaid GmbH to Telix Pharmaceuticals headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.
  • Advised JS, a financial services investment company based in Pakistan, on its acquisition of a substantial equity interest in Austrian-based crypto start-up Blockbase Group.

Austria > Real estate Tier 4

PwC Legal Austria-oehner & partner handles a wide range of real estate matters, including transactions, financing and disputes, and has placed additional focus on sustainability aspects of real estate law over the past year, notably in the area of green leases. Practice head Karl Koller handles both real estate transactions, including forward funding and sales, and construction issues, with a strong presence in the hotel and leisure sector.

Practice head(s):

Karl Koller

Other key lawyers:

Matthias Hofer; Tatiana Hyben

Testimonials

‘Karl Koller is great, a proactive advisor.’

Key clients

Adina Apartment Hotels

Catella Residential Investment Management GmbH

Kara Group of Companies

MERYN + Partners

STRABAG Real Estate

Superbude

The Student Hotel

Vienna Airport

Zoku

Work highlights

  • Advised Vienna Airport on the conclusion of a long-term ground lease for the construction of a new 510-room hotel.
  • Advised STRABAG Real Estate on the acquisition of the City Center Salzburg.
  • Acted for Adina on the conclusion of a business transfer and hotel lease agreement for the operation of the first Adina Serviced Apartments in Europe.

Austria > Employment Tier 5

PwC Legal Austria-oehner & partner‘s employment law team cooperates with other departments to offer a multidisciplinary approach, which includes advice on tax and M&A topics. Ursula Roberts’ recent activities include advice on the implementation of the EU whistleblower directive, flextime agreements, and compliance audits. She leads the group alongside Eva Krichmayr, who focuses on restructurings and social plan negotiations by combining expertise in employment, immigration and social law.

Practice head(s):

Ursula Roberts; Eva Krichmayr

Testimonials

‘The law firm had an excellent team available at short notice. During the collaboration, in addition to labour law issues, tax law issues also emerged. We are very grateful that this law firm has access to its own tax experts, who are also always available promptly and easily. This broad range of experts gives us the feeling that we are in good hands.’

‘Ursula Roberts’ clarity and knowledge gave us the feeling that she could and would solve our problems.’

‘PwC Legal Austria provided an excellent service.’

‘Ursula Roberts has strong and recognized experience in providing services in the full range of labour law matters related to individual and collective employment relationships. She has proximity and a good relationship with the client, as well as focus on the legal problem raised and concern to provide direct and concrete answers. ’

‘The team is very responsive and reliable. They have a great number of specialists who support clients very well in their distinct areas. ’

‘Very responsive – both in time and content with a hands-on approach. It’s a pleasure to work with them ’

Key clients

Honda Austria Branch of Honda Motor Europe Ltd

JCL Logistics Austria GmbH

Planmeca Oy

Plandent GmbH

IVC Evidensia

The Navigator Company

W.A.C.M. Privatstiftung

JS North Asia Investments Limited

Adina Apartment Hotels

hypo-A GmbH

TTI Electronics Austria GmbH

Work highlights

  • Advised Honda Austria Branch of Honda Motor Europe Ltd on the preparation of a new flexitime agreement and the adaptation of several internal policies.
  • Advised Planmeca Oy on the acquisition of 100% of the shares in the Austrian dpMedTech GmbH via its Austrian subsidiary Plandent GmbH and advised on employment agreements for the sellers as managing directors of both dpMedTech GmbH and Plandent GmbH.
  • Advised hypo-A GmbH on a complex employment law issue and on payroll issues with cross-border implications together with PwC Payroll Consulting colleagues.

Austria > Commercial, corporate and M&A Tier 6

PwC Legal Austria-oehner & partner offers a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses commercial and tax advice in addition to corporate matters, and the team has recently been involved in matters related to market entries, exit deals and various acquisitions. Lead Christian Öhner is recommended for advising on M&A, joint ventures, corporate law and restructurings, while Michael Lind‘s specialisms include distressed M&A. Mario Steinkellner heads the firm’s office in Linz and advises on a variety of strategic acquisitions, with a particular focus on start-ups.

Practice head(s):

Christian Oehner

Other key lawyers:

Michael Lind; Mario Steinkellner

Key clients

W.A.C.M. Privatstiftung

Founder of Dedicaid GmbH

JS North Asia Investments Limited

PwC Holdings Germany GmbH

Axcel

Owner Miraculix Business Beteiligungs GmbH

IVC Evidensia

Planmeca Oy

Plandent GmbH

Light & Wonder Inc.

IMCD

Shareholder of Komet Austria GmbH

ClimateTrade Corp.

Work highlights

  • Advised W.A.C.M. Privatstiftung on the sale of Walter Mauser GmbH in an auction procedure to the Finnish Fortaco Group.
  • Advised Dedicaid GmbH on the exit to Telix Pharmaceuticals.
  • Advised JS on the acquisition of a substantial equity interest in Blockbase Group.

PwC Legal Austria-oehner & partner > Firm Profile

The firm: PwC Legal Austria is one of the leading law firms in Austria. With more than 25 lawyers and associates, PwC Legal Austria advises in all relevant areas of business law.

Global network, local expertise: PwC Legal Austria is part of PwC’s worldwide legal network comprising more than 4,000 lawyers in almost 100 countries. Our lawyers are closely connected through personal contacts and modern intelligent tools. Furthermore, the global PwC network includes 360,000 specialists working in the audit, tax and management consulting sectors. In order to ensure that the clients benefit from PwC’s technical excellence, PwC’s entire global network is at the clients’ disposal.

PwC Legal Austria provides its clients with a single point of contact, who is supported by professional teams tailored to the client’s needs and with a profound understanding of the specific context and industry.

Active interaction, comprehensive solutions
The strategies, concepts and solutions that PwC Legal Austria presents to its clients do not only take the legal aspects into account, but also tax and commercial aspects. The objective is to support the clients comprehensively and on a long-term basis. This interdisciplinary approach ensures that the client can efficiently tap into the whole PwC service portfolio.

Areas of practice
Corporate/M&A: PwC Legal Austria supports its clients in all corporate law and M&A matters. We accompany our clients from the design phase of an envisaged transaction until the post deal integration.

The M&A practice group of PwC Legal Austria has extensive experience on M&A transactions and complex corporate matters. An interdisciplinary approach makes it possible to offer a wide range of services, such as deal design and structuring, due diligence, SPA and ancillary contract design and negotiations, corporate advisory, restructuring, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital as well corporate governance.

Data protection: Failure to properly manage data, computer and communication systems and networks can put the organization of a client in breach of their contractual duties, duties of confidentiality and duties of care to third parties. Successful strategy development, execution and compliance monitoring require blended skills of a multi-disciplinary professional services team, which PwC Legal Austria is uniquely positioned to provide. Working closely with audit, consulting, risk-management and forensics experts, PwC Legal Austria provides a unique seamless end-to-end service. It provides business-critical support on data protection and privacy, including regulatory reform readiness (GDPR), data impact assessments, communication and negotiation with data authorities, implementation of data and cookie policies, outsourcing and cloud services and data processing contracts.

Dispute resolution and contracts: PwC Legal Austria supports clients in corporate and commercial disputes, domestic and international commercial litigation and arbitration, alternative dispute resolution, group litigation and class action, alternative dispute resolution and white-collar crime.

Employment law and immigration : Global markets have and continue to become increasingly competitive – the recruitment, management and retention of employees has never been more important to businesses. A company’s most important asset – its employees – require special attention and become a strategic focus. Together with other relevant lines of service, such as tax and consulting, PwC Legal Austria offers a true one-stop shop for all human resources issues. The employment law team provides its clients with specialist and commercially focused advice to help in important areas of employment law, such as HR transactional matters, equal pay and reward effectiveness, redundancy and re-organizations, implementing global HR policies and procedures, terminations, complex international corporate transactions, strategic deployment planning and compliance advice and immigration.

Financial services/banking and finance: The financial services practice group of PwC Legal Austria supports their clients with tailor-made and sustainable solutions for all regulatory, banking and finance, capital markets as well as banking M&A topics. It combines deep knowledge of the industry and the clients’ and their counterparts’ businesses with a global perspective and extensive cross-border transactional experience. Working alongside the specialists from tax, finance, deals and assurance, they follow an integrated approach and support the clients beyond “classic” legal advice with their services. This includes financial services regulatory, regulatory health checks, trainings and updates, finance transactions, acquisition, project, real estate, intra-group finance, secondary-market and portfolio transactions and capital markets. The team regularly advises investors with the market entry into the Austrian banking market including match-making with potential target banks. Most of the team members have previously worked in in-house positions and therefore understand the particular needs of in-house bank clients very well.

International business restructuring: PwC Legal Austria supports its clients in corporate and business reorganization. In addition, it advices in the areas of company formation, mergers, de-mergers, other corporate reorganizations, optimization of legal and tax structures, re-domiciliations and liquidations.

Restructuring and insolvency law: The PwC Legal Austria team offers tailor-made solutions in the areas of insolvency law, corporate restructurings and distressed M&A. They represent clients in out-of-court restructuring proceedings as well as in court and advise in pre-crisis and special situations. Based on many years of experience, the team provides targeted support to shareholders and executive bodies of companies in crisis or insolvency, trustees, banks, creditors and sellers, as well as buyers in distressed M&A transactions, in order to avoid possible liability risks and increase the chances of realization. The multidisciplinary consulting approach together with the PwC experts from tax and management consulting offers a broad professional know-how far beyond the scope of legal advice with regard to crisis and insolvency.

Private wealth services: PwC Legal Austria´s private wealth team specializes in working with private clients and family businesses, family offices and their advisors. It has a keen multi-disciplinary appreciation for the varied dynamics of family business and private wealth. It builds relationships that are based on an understanding of the clients’ unique circumstances as well as their business and financial goals. In cooperation with the international PwC private wealth services teams around the globe the Austrian private wealth team supports its clients with asset allocation and protection matters, optimization of the asset structure, estate planning and succession in family businesses, trusts and foundations, establishment of effective supervisory and governance structures (family governance), philanthropic investments and private global mobility matters.

Public and regulatory law: Public and regulatory law issues have become more and more important when carrying out business activities. The public and regulatory law team of PwC Legal Austria consists of true experts in these fields of law and provides wide-ranging and profound services. The team is especially focused on public procurement procedures, thereby assisting not only contracting authorities but also bidders as regards a tender process. The team also advises stakeholders in the infrastructure sector with regard to environmental impact assessment procedures, water rights law, waste management law, trade law, construction and zoning law as well as energy law. Further, PwC Legal Austria has an in-depth expertise in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, diagnostic and related areas, and offers advice and assistance to the Life Sciences and Healthcare industries. The team also represents clients in enforcement proceedings and public procurement review procedures before the Austrian authorities and Administrative Courts, respectively.

Real estate: PwC Legal Austria provides a wide spectrum in legal and economic know-how to optimally advise clients in the purchase, sale, development, administration, liquidation or financing of real estate. The real estate and construction team focuses on the interests of its clients and the real estate project with its specific risk structure and special features. It possess deep knowledge of the market and will support the clients in minimizing risks. Complex and international real estate transactions can be completely carried out within the PwC Network.

The team supports its clients in property transactions whether they are owners, tenants, investors or lenders and provide them with innovative, commercially aware solutions to even the most challenging business issues.  Its range of real-estate legal services includes acquisitions and disposals, leases, due diligence, development, finance and structuring, asset and property management, smart city and urban mobility.

Tax litigation/tax crime: Both multinational as well as domestic corporations are facing the most challenging tax environment: a convergence of global forces has resulted in a substantial increase in the number and size of tax audits, assessments, and disputes with revenue authorities. PwC Legal Austria’s tax litigation and tax crime lawyers assist taxpayers in this emerging area. Together with colleagues from tax, they can work with their clients to prevent, efficiently manage, and favourably resolve tax audits and disputes, both at home and throughout the world. They combine deep technical understanding, local knowledge, strong relationships with government officials, tax litigation experience, and a global perspective. Their expertise includes tax audits, tax appeals, minimum-wage and social-security protection laws, representation before high and constitutional courts, representation in criminal tax cases and tax rulings.

Main Contacts

Department Name Email Telephone
Managing Partner, Corporate M&A Dr. Christian Oehner, LL.M. christian.oehner@pwc.com +436643261616
Partner, Real Estate & Construction Mag. Karl Koller, LL.M. karl.koller@pwc.com +4366488639013
Partner, Corporate M&A Dr. Michael Lind, LL.M. michael.lind@pwc.com +436649678660
Partner, Employment Law & Immigration Dr. Ursula Roberts ursula.roberts@pwc.com +4366488639020
Partner, Dispute Resolution & Contracts Dr. Axel Thoss axel.thoss@pwc.com +4366488639004
Director, Financial Services & Capital Markets Mag. Irene Beck, B.A. irene.beck@pwc.com +4366488639005
Director, Private wealth services Dr. Dominik Pflug, LL.M., MSc dominik.pflug@pwc.com +4366488855208

Staff Figures

Lawyers and associates : 25+

Languages

All main business languages

PwC Legal Austria-oehner & partner > Firm Profile

Our leading lawyers have more than three decades of both business and legal experience. We provide legal assistance to a wide range of clients, including Hungarian undertakings, international groups of companies, high-net-worth individuals, local governments and authorities as well.

Utilizing our expertise and working in close cooperation with our clients, we develop innovative solutions, regardless of the boundaries of the numerous legal fields and industries. We focus on understanding industry specifics, and by taking a pragmatic approach and through teamwork, we ensure that our customers receive personalized and quick responses to their questions.

Close collaboration within the PwC network enables us to access and utilize PwC’s accounting, tax, human resources and other business consulting services, and thus provide complex, synchronized advice to our clients.

Services:
-Competition law and consumer protection
-Economic Criminal Law
-Employment law
-Energy, public services
-Waste management
-Environment protection law
-Investments, real estates
-IT, IP and data protection
-Legal disputes, debt recovery, insolvency cases, tax litigation
-Pharmaceutical law and health industry
-Public procurement, tendering procedures
-Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions
-Telecommunications and media
-Transport

Main Contacts

Department Name Email Telephone

Languages

English
German
French
Spanish
Hungarian
Turkish
Portuguese
Italian

International Capabilities


PwC Legal Austria offers a unique style of integrated legal advice, with access to specialists from across the entire global PwC network. PwC Legal is the largest legal services network in geographic terms. In figures, PwC Legal has over 4,000 lawyers in approximately 100 countries. Furthermore, the global PwC network includes 360,000 specialists working in the audit, tax and management consulting sectors.  

The close cooperation with other PwC Legal offices and PwC service lines distinguishes PwC Legal Austria from other law firms. Moreover, such cooperation enables PwC Legal Austria to provide its clients with tailor-made comprehensive solutions covering international legal, tax, commercial and strategic aspects. 

Global approach  

In today’s fast-moving world, it’s more important than ever to have a legal partner who understands all aspects of a business and embraces technology to help its clients to move ahead effectively and decisively. From predicting the impact of regulatory, economic and political shifts on our clients’ businesses to understanding how to future-proof their strategy, we connect our clients’ challenges with the right expertise in law and across PwC. Together, we help to navigate complexity with confidence, find new ways to grow and transform ways of working. 

Connect to more 

We believe in the power of law to solve the most significant challenges and take on the future. Working with us is not just about legal advice. It’s about seeing beyond uncertainty and risk to uncover new opportunities. It’s about harnessing the power of PwC’s global reach, local presence and industry depth to chart a future-ready path to success. We deliver the connected expertise that bridges all aspects of our client’s business— so they can grow and protect it, today and tomorrow. 

Our profession is our passion. Going the extra mile is our standard. That’s what we stand for and that’s what we commit ourselves to. Working with PwC Legal Austria means getting the local expertise with the strength of a Global network.  

As part of the global PwC network, the international focus is omnipresent. We bring our connected expertise across legal insight, business understanding and technological innovation to bring our client´s future into focus and uncover new opportunities. Our international purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. 

In an increasingly complex world, we help intricate systems function, adapt and evolve so they can benefit communities and society – whether they are capital markets, tax systems or the economic systems within which business and society exist.  

Diversity


Diversity at PwC Legal means bringing together the perspective of individuals of all backgrounds, life experiences, preferences and beliefs to create better outcomes for our clients, our people and our communities. We live a culture of inclusion: An environment where people can be their true selves, sharing their unique perspectives while knowing their contributions are valued.

Why is Inclusion & Diversity so important to us?

Inclusion & Diversity is not only what our clients pay attention to. We also need the best talent to provide the best advice to our clients and talent has no age, no origin and no gender. And finally: Because it is the right thing to do!

Diversity is a business imperative and the enabler of PwC’s international business strategy. Diversity in age, origin, ethnicity or skin color, cultural imprint, mental and physical abilities or sexual identity and orientation. Diversity can be visible, but it can also be expressed in intellectual differences.

We have great initiatives to actively live diversity on a daily basis:

• Part-time models: Individual arrangement of working hours that leaves room for individual needs.

• Flextime: A standard model that meets the individual needs of our part-time and full-time lawyers and other staff members.

• Home office: Independence and flexibility thanks to excellent technical conditions.

• Mentoring program: EWoB – European Women on Board Cooperation of PwC Europe – female young partners, Director Mentoring Program – networking with external women in management positions.

• AUDIT berufundfamilie: A target agreement with measures to reconcile work & private life.

• OPEN MINDS Online: Mandatory training from manager level to prevent unconscious bias.

• WOMEN NETWORK: The network aims to actively promote the exchange between women from the Advisory, Assurance, Tax and Legal service lines in Austria and to support (future) female managers in their development. In particular, organized series of events, including on topics such as women’s leadership, negotiation techniques and much more are brought to the attention of women.

• HeForShe: The UN’s “HeForShe” campaign aims to raise awareness of how much men and women benefit from gender equality and how together they can, both in the workplace and in their private lives, realize their full potential. PwC actively supports the United Nations Gender Equality campaign as an international impact sponsor, and we motivate our male colleagues to get involved in gender equality issues through education and practical action.

• Shine: The business network for everyone who wants to contribute to a diverse and inclusive corporate culture. Shine is committed to a work environment where all employees can be themselves and do not have to hide their identity, including our LGBTIQ+ colleagues.

• DisAbility Talent Program: As a cooperation partner of myAbility (a management consultancy that helps companies leverage the potential of people with disabilities as customers and employees) we support students with disabilities in networking with well-known companies. The program includes career coaching and soft skills training for the talents as well as job shadowing at the partner companies.

• Worldwide networking: An inspiring exchange that goes far beyond national borders and our own law firm.