Dr Stefan Huber > Cerha Hempel > Vienna, Austria > Lawyer Profile

Cerha Hempel is a respected player representing individuals, including top management, and companies in investigative and court proceedings, which have recently included allegations of breach of trust, bid rigging, (tax) fraud and embezzlement. Alongside its criminal defence expertise, the team is equally well versed in handling international investigations and puts another focus on crime prevention and compliance advice. Key contacts include senior counsel and criminal law specialist Peter Lewisch, whose mandates routinely involve international elements, Hans Kristoferitsch, who frequently takes the lead in internal investigations, and Stefan Huber, who has a specialism in matters at the intersection between white-collar crime and export control law.

Cerha Hempel‘s team is ‘unique in its legal knowledge, combining a hands-on approach with academic excellence’. The group’s administrative law and public sector team sits in the firm’s recently founded regulatory, IP/IT and white-collar crime practice group. It has a notable focus on regulated industries, environmental law, hospital law and higher education as well as consumer product regulation. Public law litigation at both a national and EU-level is another strong suit of the team, which is headed by Hans Kristoferitsch and Stefan Huber. ‘Dedicated, responsive and reliable’ Armin Schwabl, who was promoted to the partnership in early 2022,  is well versed in the areas of life sciences, data protection and trade law.

Public entities and infrastructure providers often turn to Cerha Hempel for questions relating to the procurement of infrastructure projects. The firm has registered a growth in workload on the bidder side in recent years as well as in bid rigging and self-purification cases. Public law litigation at both a national and EU level and advising the medical sector are additional strengths of the team, which is led by Georg Konrad, Stefan Huber and Michaela Siegwart.