Comparative Guide
Restructuring & Insolvency
Austria
Markus Fellner, Florian Henöckl & Manuel M. Schweiger
Fellner Wratzfeld & Partners oversees major development projects, including those that have become distressed, in addition to assisting asset managers buy and sell properties, and corporates requiring assistance with lease-related challenges. The core team is comprised of Lukas Flener, who combines expertise in real estate deals and developments with a focus on M&A, hotels and logistics specialist Markus Kajaba and Michael Hecht, who handles planning and construction challenges. Edda Moharitsch-Unfricht works closely with Flener on matters concerning distressed real estate assets.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Solution focused, availability, response time, excellent short summaries of tricky legal issues that help to make good and fast decisions.’
- ‘Lukas Flener has been our contact in a demanding real estate project in Vienna with a number of complex legal issues. Lukas was always quickly at hand to discuss pros and cons and to work out viable solutions.’
- ‘fwp is a reputed, well established law firm in Vienna.’
- ‘Great network in the industry, leading among real estate financing institutions.’
- ‘Always available, fast reactions, thorough process, high competence.’
- ‘Speed and reliability.’
Key clients
- SORAVIA Group
- ARE Austrian Real Estate GmbH
- Quartier Starhemberg GmbH
- ARGE Oberes Hausfeld
- Innsbrucker Immobilien GmbH & Co KG
- IKEA Einrichtungen-Handelsgesellschaft m.b.H.
- WI Group
Work highlights
Advised the SORAVIA Group on the entry of LC Hospitality Holding AG into the LOISIUM Group.
Provided legal advice to the WI Group on the sale of the Volksgarage Auhofstraße in Vienna’s 13th district to WIPARK Garagen GmbH.
Acted as a restructuring trustee, alongside the WI Group, to facilitate the reactivation of several residential projects worth a total of €150m.
Practice head
Lukas Flener; Markus Kajaba; Michael Hecht
Other key lawyers
Edda Moharitsch-Unfricht