MMag Josef Schmidt > E+H Rechtsanwälte GmbH > Vienna, Austria > Lawyer Profile

E+H Rechtsanwälte GmbH
VIENNA TWIN TOWER, WIENERBERGSTRASSE 11
1100 VIENNA
Austria

Work Department

Banking + Finance; Capital Markets; Corporate + M&A; Restructuring + Insolvency

Position

Josef Schmidt advises on capital markets law, mergers and acquisitions, and restructurings. Josef Schmidt already worked as an associate in the E+H practice groups Banking + Finance and Corporate + M&A.

Career

Before rejoining E+H as an attorney, he gained international experience as a lawyer in London with the distinguished New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

Languages

German and English

Memberships

Austrian Bar Association; New York Bar Association

Education

Josef Schmidt graduated with distinction with a law degree from the University of Vienna, and a degree in business administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. As part of his business studies, Josef Schmidt spent one semester at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his postgraduate LL.M. studies at the elite Harvard University.

Lawyer Rankings

Austria > Capital markets

Led by Peter Winkler, E+H Rechtsanwälte GmbH advises clients with an interdisciplinary approach, working seamlessly with the firm’s corporate, M&A, banking and finance, and regulatory practice groups to handle both debt and equity capital markets transactions. ‘Stand-out lawyer’ Dominik Juster joined the team in November 2022 from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and is dual-qualified in Austria and New York, as is Josef Schmidt, whose multi-faceted practice includes an emerging focus on private equity-related matters.