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CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz Rechtsanwälte GmbH Offices
GAUERMANNGASSE 2
1010 WIEN
Austria
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Mag Daniela Karollus-Bruner
Work Department
Dispute Resolution, Insurance, Commercial, Energy &Climate Change , Private Clients, Competition & EU, Corporate/M&A, Insolvency & Restructuring
Position
Daniela Karollus-Bruner is a partner at CMS and leads our dispute resolution group as well as the insurance industry team. In addition, she is a member of our teams for corporate and commercial law. She has many years of experience with highly complex litigation and arbitration cases for clients from various industries, with a special focus on the energy, media, banking, financial services and insurance industries. She represents Austrian and international clients at courts and at arbitration courts with a focus on cases involving damages, contracts, product liability, corporate and competition law.
During and after law school in Vienna and Paris, she held assistant positions with the University of Vienna Law School (e.g. at the Department of Civil Law). She has over 20 years of experience as a lawyer in Vienna and Linz. In addition, she is a sought-after speaker at executive seminars as well as author and co-author of various expert articles.
Career
University of Vienna: assistant professor at the Institute of Roman Law and History of Ancient Law (1987-1990), assistant professor at the Institute of Civil Law (1990-1996), foreign students advisor of the Vienna Law School (1989–1991), lecturer for preparatory courses for admittance to law studies (1990/91); University of Linz: lecturer for legal French in a post-graduate course on European law (1997-2002); associate and attorney at well-known Austrian law firms (1991/92, 1996–1999), attorney at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz since 2000 (partner since 2004).
Languages
German, English, French, Italian.
Memberships
Austrian Bar Association, International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), ICC Commission on Arbitration.
Education
University of Vienna (Mag. iur., 1990), Université de Paris II, Panthéon-Assas, (1987/88).
Personal
She is also a sought-after speaker at seminars and the author or co-author of numerous specialist publications.
Lawyer Rankings
Austria > Insolvency and corporate recovery
While restructuring and reorganisation advice forms the heart of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz Rechtsanwälte GmbH‘s practice, both debtors and creditors can rely on the team’s specialised expertise in the event of unavoidable insolvency. Dispute resolution-focused Daniela Karollus-Bruner and distressed M&A-oriented Clemens Grossmayer lead the practice, covering the breadth of contentious and non-contentious matters. David Kohl, who was promoted to partner in January 2023, supports on crisis situations and insolvency law issues. Anja Cervenka joined the team in October 2022.
Austria > Dispute resolution: arbitration and mediation
CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz Rechtsanwälte GmbH provides clients with excellent support in a range of industries such as finance, construction, energy and engineering and transport, with the team’s areas of expertise including domestic as well as international arbitration proceedings and the enforcement of arbitral awards. Co-head Johannes Reich-Rohrwig
specialises in corporate and commercial law, which is also a strength of co-head Daniela Karollus-Bruner, who also leads the firm’s insurance team. ‘Fast and diligent’ Sonja Otenhajmer offers particular knowledge of CEE jurisdictions.
Austria > Dispute resolution: commercial litigation
(Leading individuals)Daniela Karollus-Bruner – CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz Rechtsanwälte GmbH
CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz Rechtsanwälte GmbH works seamlessly with the firm’s other departments, in particular real estate, IP, public procurement and employment, being regularly instructed by clients from industries such as transport, energy, real estate and intellectual property. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig represents clients in both litigation and arbitration proceedings, and leads the group alongside Daniela Karollus-Bruner, who offers notable experience in tort, contract, corporate and competition law. The team was further strengthened with Lukas Peissl and Arno Zimmermann‘s promotion to partner, and the arrival of Anja Cervenka from DORDA Rechtsanwälte GmbH in October 2022, as well as Anna Freund from Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte GmbH & Co KG in March 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Austria > Dispute resolution: commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: commercial litigation Austria
- Insolvency and corporate recovery Austria
- Dispute resolution: arbitration and mediation Austria
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Administrative law and public sector
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Construction
- Dispute resolution: commercial litigation
- EU and competition
- Intellectual property
- Private client
- Projects and energy
- Public procurement
- Capital markets
- Data privacy and data protection
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate
- Tax
- TMT
- Dispute resolution: arbitration and mediation