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Christoph Nauer

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Work Department

Corporate/M&A, Capital Markets, Finance & Regulatory

Position

Partner with focus on corporate/M&A (especially for listed companies), boardroom advice, boardroom advice, mergers/spin-offs, takeover situations and capital market transactions (ECM equity, equity-linked) as well as banking and financial market regulation.

Having a significant large cap transaction track record representing international and Austrian blue chips across various industries. Top 5 in the Individual 15 yrs. (2023) M&A League Table of Mergermarket per value for Austria with approx. €19bn total deal value.

• STRABAG on €900mn capital repayment with scrip-rights for new shares to reduce the stake of sanctions affected “MKAO” Rasperia Trading Limited
• €337.5mn increase of shareholding above 50% in S IMMO by IMMOFINANZ incl long-term credit facility provided by CPIPG
• STRABAG on the €580mn mandatory takeover bid of Haselsteiner Familien-Privatstiftung, Raiffeisen-Holding and UNIQA-Versicherung combined with repurchase of treasury shares by STRABAG
• IMMOFINANZ as target in the bidding contest between CPI Property Group and S IMMO (first competing takeover bids since 1999 takeover rules came into force) (shortlisted as M&A-Deal of the Year/ IFLR Europe Awards 2023)
• IMMOFINANZ on its €1.14 bn takeover bid for S IMMO incl € 500mn Bridge Facility
• €356mn combined placement of subordinated mandatory convertible notes (first-to-market in Austria) and share placement by IMMOFINANZ in ABBs
• R-IT as shareholder in CHF380mn, CHF350mn and CHF111mn placements of SoftwareONE shares in ABBs
• Unzer (former: heidelpay Group) on the acquisition of Paysafe’s Pay Later business
• R-IT as shareholder in the IPO of SoftwareONE at SIX with CHF2.9bn market cap
• Constantia Flexibles on the €50mn settlement upon the squeeze-out compensation for Constantia Packaging shareholders
• €390mn strategic acquisition in listed S IMMO by IMMOFINANZ
• Sale of global operating COMPAREX Group to KKR backed Swiss SoftwareONE by Raiffeisen Informatik
• €760mn sale by IMMOFINANZ of stake in listed CAI to Starwood Capital
• RZB on its merger with listed RBI (highest profile banking sector transaction in Austria/CEE in 2017) (Austrian Deal of the Year/ CEE Deal of the Year Awards 2018)
• €1.4bn Spin-off of BUWOG (first from an ATX company) (European Capital Markets Tax Deal of the Year 2015/ International Tax Review)

Career

With bpv Huegel since 2009. Prior with Cheyne Capital, London (leading Europe alternative investment fund manager).

Languages

German, English

Memberships

International Bar Association

Education

University of Vienna (1998 Mag. iur., 2002 Dr. iur.), Vienna University of Economics and Business (2006 LL.M. International Tax Law)