Thomas Aspalter
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Thomas Böhm
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Anja Cervenka
Lawyer
Marcell Clark
Marcell Clark is a Partner at CMS Vienna and attorney-at-law for Banking & Finance. He has over 25 years’ experience in cross-border financing and real estate transactions and has represented clients on their most important transactions in the CEE and SEE regions and around the globe. In addition to senior secured and unsecured transactions, he has extensive experience advising on construction and subordinated debt matters as well as real estate investment, agricultural and timber funds in their acquisitions and dispositions.
Bernt Elsner
Bernt Elsner is partner and global head of the CMS Public Procurement Group. He is a leading expert in the fields of public procurement, antitrust and public law.
He studied law at the University of Vienna and business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. In 1993-94 he worked as a research assistant at the Austrian Constitutional Court for the constitutional judges Prof. Dr. Karl Spielbüchler and Prof. Dr. Karl Korinek. In 1997 he practised European competition law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels. From 2004 to 2010 he was Managing Partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. He has more than 24 years of professional experience in Vienna and Brussels.
Bernt Elsner is one of the leading Austrian experts in the dynamic and constantly changing field of public procurement law. His numerous publications and lectures have had a significant impact on Austrian public procurement law.
He advises public entities on the structuring of complex tenders, advises bidders on their participation in award procedures, especially public-private partnerships (PPP projects), and frequently represents them in public procurement disputes. He has extensive experience in tender-relevant compliance issues.
Egon Engin-Deniz
Egon Engin-Deniz is an attorney-at-law for intellectual property law and a leading expert in the fields of Life Sciences & Healthcare and TMC - Technology, Media & Telecommunications. He heads the Intellectual Property and Media Department of CMS in Vienna.
He has extensive expertise in contentious and non-contentious trademark, domain and patent law, copyright including access control law, distribution and unfair competition law. His team specialises in the prosecution of product piracy and the examination of parallel imports. Egon Engin-Deniz is a recognised expert in cross-border litigation and licensing.
Alongside the very strong litigation activity, companies are also strategically advised and represented (“cradle to grave”) in naming, portfolio management, trademark, patent and licensing strategies.
Anna Freund
Lawyer
Walter Gapp
Walter Gapp is an attorney-at-law who has specialized for many years in the fields of capital markets law and financial market regulation. He regularly advises on preparing issuance programmes as well as bonds issuanceand regulatory capital instruments. He also focuses on the structuring and support of securitization transactions, new business models proposed by financial service providers, as well as giving comprehensive regulatory advice to banks, insurance companies and securities firms.
Walter Gapp is repeatedly mentioned as a leading lawyer in the field of capital markets law and banking regulation, he has been described as "highly regarded" (IFLR 1000) and placed on the list of "best lawyers (banking and finance law)" (Handelsblatt 2019).
Clemens Grossmayer
Partner
Bernhard Hainz
Bernhard Hainz is a partner at CMS in Vienna and head of the specialist Employment and Pension Law Department.
Bernhard Hainz is one of the leading specialists in Austria and for more than 30 years has primarily advised companies in all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including the negotiation of collective agreements, works agreements, social plans, disputes with works councils and employees, service agreements and dissolution agreements as well as pension and pension fund matters.
As a result of his previous position as an assistant at the Vienna University Institute for Employment Law and Social Law, Bernhard Hainz and his team combine high-level academic qualifications with many years of practical legal experience.
In addition, Bernhard Hainz has expertise in the area of art law and in this connection he represents artists and art institutions both nationally and internationally.
Thomas Hamerl
Thomas Hamerl is an attorney-at-law for infrastructure projects & public private partnerships and a leading expert in public procurement law as well as real estate & construction. He is a specialist for national and international construction projects, infrastructure and public private partnerships as well as energy projects. He has particular expertise in national and international construction contract law, public procurement law including concessions, infrastructure-oriented dispute resolution including litigation and arbitration, real estate and energy law.
Thomas Hamerl has experience in infrastructure projects for roads, railways, airports, hospitals, schools, waste collection and disposal, site remediation, power plants (PV, wind, biomass, water).
He has been working as a legal consultant for around 20 years and joined CMS in 2009. He brings to the consulting practice his experience as in-house counsel of an international construction group, where he was head of the legal department in Vienna and head of the group-wide “Legal Practice Group PPP”. Prior to that, he worked for renowned Viennese law firms in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe as well as for the European Commission in Brussels.
Günther Hanslik
Günther Hanslik is a partner in the transactions team of CMS Vienna, focusing on finance transactions, restructurings and corporate transactions.
As head of the transactional finance team of CMS Vienna, he supports clients in high-profile projects in Austria and CEE. He continuously acts on behalf of leading European financial institutions as well as large corporations.
Günther Hanslik has been teaching at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration for many years.
Stefan Honeder
Lawyer
Peter Huber
Peter Huber is head of the International Corporate Transactions team of CMS Austria. He looks back on more than 25 years of professional experience in corporate transactions, including more than four years with major investment banks.
His main areas of practice are M&A (including privatisations and public takeovers) and corporate law (including corporate governance) in Austria as well as Central and Eastern Europe. Peter Huber advises a range of major Austrian corporations and major shareholders as well as groups of shareholders on corporate transactions, restructurings, shareholders’ agreements and governance structures, including advice on legal issues resulting from shareholder activism. He also advises major private equity houses on investments and exits.
Johannes Hysek
Johannes Hysek is an attorney-at-law for real estate law. He advises national and international clients on a wide range of topics from financing agreements to the acquisition, sale and development of commercial real estate and real estate portfolios.
For many years he has advised numerous Austrian and international clients—including insurance companies and funds—on real estate transactions (including mortgage-backed syndicated loan agreements), privatisations and corporate restructurings. In addition, he regularly supports international (luxury) brands in their market entry and the establishment of flagship stores in Austria.
Johannes Hysek has been a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) for many years and is a lecturer at the FH for Real Estate Management.
Johannes Hysek has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.
Johannes Juranek
Johannes Juranek is managing partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and an expert in technology, data protection and business law. He has extensive experience in handling complex legal cases in the areas of IT law, data protection and commercial law. Among other things, he advises clients on the implementation of compliance regulations in connection with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
His clients include technology, software and industrial companies, banks and healthcare companies. Johannes Juranek also represents clients before courts and arbitration tribunals in these areas.
Andreas Jöst
Senior Lawyer
Mariella Kapoun-Reiter
Partner
Daniela Karollus-Bruner
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.
Robert Keisler
Robert Keisler is a partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and a member of the Public Procurement Law, Competition Law and Public Law Team.
His areas of expertise include advising and representing contractors and principals from a wide variety of industries, both nationally and internationally, in the areas of public procurement law and regulatory law. He also has many years of experience in various areas of competition law, including merger control and antitrust law.
Daniela Krömer
Daniela Krömer is an attorney-at-law in the field of Labour Law and EU Law. She has been a member of the Employment Law Team at CMS since 2013. In addition to standard employment law advice, she also supports clients primarily in matters of European employment law, for example in the area of cross-border employment of workers, in particular in the area of wage and social dumping, as well as in questions of equal treatment.
Hans Lederer
Partner
Florian Mayer
Partner
Sibylle Novak
Sibylle Novak has been a partner at CMS since 2008 and is an expert in national and international tax law. She is among the very few law experts in Austria who are admitted to the bar (since 2006) and also certified as tax advisors (since 2002). She can draw on more than 20 years of work experience. In her work, she specialises in tax-optimising transactions, M&A, restructurings, private foundations as well as private equity and venture capital deals.
Sonja Otenhajmer
Partner
Klaus Pateter
Klaus Pateter is an attorney-at law for Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMC), FinTech & Digital Assets, IT Law, Data Protection, Digitalisation & Start-ups.
Klaus Pateter advises and represents his clients in the areas of regulatory law, digital assets, IT law, licensing of technology and software (domestic & international), data protection law and medical technology.
He also specialises in advising tech start-ups in all phases of growth and advises on setting up corporate structures as well as on founding and financing, in particular in the area of venture capital. He heads the Start-up Advisory Group of CMS Austria and coordinates equIP, CMS' renowned legal accelerator for tech start-ups.
Stefan Paulmayer
Stefan Paulmayer is an attorney-at-law for banking and finance law, specialising in financing, asset-backed financing (securitisation), restructuring/insolvency law, derivative transactions and (banking) supervisory law. As an expert in banking and finance, he has advised on both large (real estate) financing and large (cross-border) restructuring transactions. Another focus of his previous work is the area of bank restructuring and settlement.
Most recently, he focused on the area of New Technologies such as SmartContracts and Blockchain where he is active as both legal advisor of FinTech companies as well as lecturer.
Stefan Paulmayer has more than eleven years of professional experience.
Lukas Peissl
Lukas Peissl is an attorney-at-law primarily in the field of corporate law/M&A and dispute resolution. Lukas J. Peissl's practice focuses on out-of-court and judicial dispute resolution, including representation before arbitral tribunals (ICC, VIAC, UNCITRAL, Swiss Rules, ad hoc), primarily representing companies in corporate and construction disputes. In addition, HNI is also advised and represented in connection with questions of inheritance law and corporate succession.
Radivoje Petrikić
Radivoje Petrikić is a partner at CMS in Vienna and has been the managing partner of the Serbian CMS office in Belgrade since its establishment in 2000.
As a leading expert in the fields of corporate/M&A, competition law & EU, corporate law, commercial law as well as finance and project financing, he has more than 20 years of experience in extensive commercial and M&A transactions and development projects throughout the CEE region. He has an in-depth understanding of all corporate and financial issues faced by companies operating in transitional markets. He is also an experienced advisor to regulators in these markets.
Radivoje Petrikić is one of Serbia's leading M&A lawyers, leading a team that has advised on many landmark corporate and commercial law cases, as well as privatisations, in a variety of industries over the past 20 years. He has been appointed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as senior legal advisor on the revision of Serbian corporate law and PPP legislation
Andrea Potz
Partner
Alexander Rakosi
Alexander Rakosi is a partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and a member of the corporate transactions team in Vienna. He is a leading expert for corporate law/M&A as well as private equity and insolvency & restructuring.
Alexander Rakosi advises leading corporations, investment funds and financial institutions in the areas of M&A, private equity and restructuring in both domestic and international projects.
After his law studies in Vienna and at the University of Michigan Law School (LLM), Alexander Rakosi worked for several years at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York in the areas of M&A, private equity and corporate finance. Alexander Rakosi is also admitted to the bar in England/Wales and New York.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Litigation Group at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. For many years, Johannes has been one of the leading corporate lawyers in Austria and a highly esteemed litigator. As professor at the University of Vienna, Law school he has an outstanding academic reputation. He is author of various commentaries, books and articles with a particular focus on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and partnership law, including the leading commentary on the Austrian Act on limited liability companies. He is co-editor of “ecolex”, the leading Austrian commercial law journal.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.
Jia Schulz-Cao
Lawyer
Christina Maria Schwaiger
Lawyer
Gabriela Staber
Gabriela Staber is an attorney-at-law specialising in intellectual property and unfair competition law with a sector focus on life sciences & healthcare and TMC (technology, media & telecommunications). She advises on issues related to the marketing and distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical devices as well as the protection of intellectual property. Her expertise includes advertising and product labelling, compliance, restructuring of distribution systems, reimbursement / market access, clinical trials, licensing, counterfeits and parallel imports and dispute resolution.
Nikolaus Weselik
Nikolaus Weselik is partner at CMS Vienna and head of the Construction and Real Estate Law Practice Group. He is an attorney-at-law for national and international construction contract law and real estate law, for construction litigation and other forms of dispute resolution, for legal questions of project development, as well as for the purchase and sale of real estate projects or individual properties.
Marlene Wimmer-Nistelberger
Partner
Jens Winter
Jens Winter is an attorney-at-law in the field of employment law. He is a partner at CMS and advises national and international companies mainly on questions of individual and collective employment law, data protection law in the area of employment law and company pension law.
He is the author of numerous publications and is frequently asked to lecture on this area of expertise.
He has many years of experience representing national and international clients before courts and public authorities. In addition, he has extensive practical experience in the implementation and realisation of company restructuring and the spin-off or merger of businesses or individual business units in the course of domestic or international transfers of operations. He has also been called on for his employment law expertise in the evaluation and realisation of several domestic and cross-border transactions.
Christoph Wolf
Christoph Wolf is a partner at CMS and heads the employment and pensions team together with Bernhard Hainz. For over 15 years he has been particularly advising companies with respect to judicial and extra-judicial labour law matters, including the implementation of restructuring measures, negotiating works agreements and redundancy plans as well as settling disputes with works councils and employees. An additional focal point of his work revolves around providing support to former state-owned companies, as well as dealing with various labour law-related issues in the area of compliance projects. He also advises clients on legal issues concerning the international secondment of staff as well as all labour law topics relevant in the field of compliance.
In addition, Christoph Wolf has served and continues to serve as a lecturer at the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the Danube University Krems as well as the Medical University of Vienna.
Dieter Zandler
Dieter Zandler is a lawyer specialising in European and Austrian competition law, foreign direct investment control and corporate law/M&A.
He represents national and international companies, especially in cartel (fine), merger control and abuse of dominance proceedings before Austrian competition authorities, the European Commission and in court. He also advises his clients on antitrust compliance and antitrust damages claims as well as on foreign direct investment control.
Arno Zimmermann
Arno Zimmermann is an attorney-at-law for corporate law/M&A, inheritance law and litigation & arbitration (dispute resolution). He also specialises in directors' liability.
Martin Zuffer
Martin Zuffer is a partner at CMS and heads the Banking and Capital Markets Law Team. In addition he specialises in corporate law and private equity. He is specialised in capital market law.