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Vienna, 5 February 2026. bpv Huegel has provided comprehensive legal and tax advice to the German investment company Odewald KMU and its portfolio company HiOffice Group in connection with the acquisition of Morawitz Consulting GmbH. Completion of the transaction took place at the end of January.
Thomas Lettau led the bpv Huegel team, which advised the buy-side together with Heuking on all legal and tax aspects of the transaction. This included conducting legal and tax due diligence, structuring the transaction, and preparing, negotiating and implementing the transaction documentation. Advice was also provided on transaction financing.
With the acquisition of Morawitz Consulting, the HiOffice Group is strengthening its position as a comprehensive provider of technology- and AI-supported end-to-end solutions in recruitment process outsourcing. The transaction represents a further step in HiOffice Group’s buy-and-build strategy.
bpv Huegel team: Thomas Lettau (Corporate/M&A), Nicolas Wolski (Tax), Johannes Mitterecker (Corporate/M&A), Kornelia Wittmann (Tax), Ingo Braun (Finance & Regulatory), Paul Pfeifenberger (Real Estate), Walter Niedermüller (Employment Law), Tim Pasternak (Corporate/M&A) and Laurenz Kainrath (Corporate/M&A).
About bpv Huegel
As one of Austria’s leading law firms, bpv Huegel advises national and international clients in all sectors. It is regarded as the first address for highly complex mandates, the handling of which requires specialised tax and legal knowledge, many years of experience and economic understanding.
With its Brussels office, bpv Huegel has a competence centre for EU law, European merger and antitrust law as well as regulatory and public procurement law located directly at the European institutions. bpv Huegel is a member of the “bpv LEGAL” alliance with offices in Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest and Prague and thus offers tailor-made solutions throughout CEE. In addition, the firm has long-standing cooperation agreements with leading international law firms worldwide. The full-service law firm was founded in 1979 and is represented in Austria by offices in Vienna, Baden and Salzburg, where it employs around 100 staff, including around 50 lawyers.
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bpv Hügel Rechtsanwälte GmbH
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