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Katrin Hanschitz

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Work Department

Commercial Litigation

Position

Katrin Hanschitz is a partner at KNOETZL and has been so since the firm’s establishment.  She is an experienced first-chair litigator with a strong background in M&A and finance transactions and ancillary disputes. She advocates for predominantly multi-national clients in all forms of shareholder and investment disputes, manager liability and disputed M&A transactions, as well as contentious insurance, financing, international trade (B2B, B2C, distribution) and international insolvency issues, with a particular focus on the social media, life sciences (product liability), banking, construction and energy industries.

Career

Before joining KNOETZL as a partner in 2016, Katrin practiced law in a senior capacity with a large, multinational law firm covering the CEE and SEE for eight years, both as a corporate and banking lawyer and then, in the last five years, as a litigator. She was admitted to the Austrian bar in 2001. Her career also encompasses experience as in-house/general counsel in the banking sector.

Languages

German, Englisch, French, Dutch.

Memberships

Co-Chair of the International Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association (International Section); Member of the Viennese Bar.

Education

Katrin was educated in Canada, England, Holland, Norway, Indonesia and Austria and holds a law degree from the Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria.