Dr Thomas Zivny > Cerha Hempel > Vienna, Austria > Lawyer Profile
Cerha Hempel Offices
PARKRING 2
1010 VIENNA
Austria
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Dr Thomas Zivny
Work Department
Banking and Corporate Finance
Position
Partner
Areas of practice:
Career
Admitted 2004, (Attorney at Law), Austria
Admitted 2002, (Attorney at Law), New York
Thomas Zivny joined CERHA HEMPEL in 2000 and is a partner since 2008. He is primarily active in the field of capital markets, project finance, healthcare and corporate law. His team advises banks in connection with project financing in the countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe, focussing in particular on real estate financing. The spectrum ranges from financing and restructuring to disposals and covers the entire life cycle of the real estate. In the field of debt capital markets, Thomas advises issuers of corporate bonds as well as bank issuance programmes. Most recently he has advised Kommunalkredit Austria AG with regard to its EUR 2 bn MTN programme and Raiffeisenlandesbank NÖ-Wien on a series of covered bond offerings of approx. 2.5 bn in 2022 and their EUR 15 bn programm.
Languages
German, English, Russian
Memberships
- Vienna Bar Association
- Österr. Gesellschaft für Medizinrecht
- International Bar Association
- Lex Mundi – The World’s Leading Association of Independent Law Firms
Education
University of Vienna (Mag.iur. 1997, Dr.iur. 2001)
University of Sheffield, England (1997)
Harvard Law School (LL.M. 1999)
Lawyer Rankings
Austria > Capital markets
Jointly steered by Volker Glas, Peter Knobl, and Thomas Zivny, Cerha Hempel excels in both regulatory and transactional work, with areas of expertise including stock exchange law, market abuse prevention, and bond issuances, with a particular emerging focus on green bonds. Glas handles the full range of corporate finance transactions, with notable experience in debt and equity transactions, while Knobl’s focus includes compliance matters and stock exchange services. Described as an ‘excellent lawyer’, Thomas Zivny’s recent workload includes advice regarding a €2bn medium-term note programme, while Christian Aichinger combines knowledge of capital markets, banking and finance, and corporate law to provide comprehensive advice to the firm’s clients.
Austria > Banking and finance
Praised by clients for ‘consistently showcasing exceptional legal expertise’, Cerha Hempel is instructed by both lenders and borrowers and operates across a wide spectrum of matters encompassing financial services regulation, restructurings, as well as green loans and acquisition financings. The team is jointly steered by Peter Knobl, who is praised by clients for his ‘remarkable level of dedication and legal acumen’, corporate finance expert Volker Glas, and Thomas Zivny, who specialises in project finance with a particular focus on the real estate sector.
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