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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 > Commercial, corporate and M&A

(Next Generation Partners)

Josef Schmidt   – E+H Rechtsanwälte GmbH

E+H Rechtsanwälte GmbH‘s team leverages knowledge from the firm’s finance, capital markets, and restructuring specialists to advise clients comprehensively on the full gamut of M&A and frequently acts in multijurisdictional transactions. The department is jointly steered by the ‘extremely experienced’ Peter Winkler, who also co-leads the firm’s finance and capital markets group, and Josef Schmidt, who excels at the intersection of M&A, corporate, financial regulatory, and capital markets law with a specialism in private equity transactions.