Cerha Hempel

Banking & Corporate Finance

Partner, specialised in Capital Markets, Banking & Finance, Corporate, Private Equity & Venture Capital.

Volker represents issuers and underwriters in debt and equity capital markets transactions, corporate borrowers, Austrian and international banks in syndicated loans, acquisition and project financings, and structured finance transactions.

Admitted 1998, (Attorney at Law), Austria, Admitted 1998, (Attorney at Law), New York

Volker Glas is Partner at CERHA HEMPEL and specializes in corporate finance transactions. He represents issuers and underwriters in debt and equity capital markets transactions, corporate borrowers, Austrian and international banks in syndicated loans, acquisition and project financings, and structured finance transactions. In 2023, he and his team advised Vienna Insurance Group on the update of its subordinated bond programmes, a repurchase of subordinated debt instruments requiring supervisory authorities' approval under Solvency II, voestalpine AG on its EUR 250 million convertible bonds issue, J.P. Morgan in Lenzing AG's capital increase. S Immo AG on its EUR 75 million retail green bond issue, and several US investors in private placements of notes issued by ÖBB; the Austrian incumbent railway company.

German, English.

Vienna Bar Association New York Bar Association International Bar Association Lex Mundi - The World's Leading Association of Independent Law Firms

University of New York (LL.M. 1994); University of Vienna (Dr. iur. 1993)