Cerha Hempel

Corporate & Commercial

Partner, specialised in Corporate/M&A, Insolvency & Restructuring, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Private Clients & Trusts.

Thomas is Head of CEE Insolvency & Restructuring Practice, concentrating in mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganizations with a special focus on insolvency & restructuring, as well as venture capital and private equity mandates. Thomas is particularly renowned for cross-border transactions, often for Anglo-Saxon clients in view of his admission to the New York Bar.

Admitted 2005, (Attorney at Law), Austria Admitted 2003, (Attorney at Law), New York Functions:

Guest lecturer in Mergers & Acquisitions at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Secondment at STRABAG SE, Capital Markets & M&A, Compliance Officer (2007/2008) Goldberg, Gelman & Harnik, New York (2002) Cremades & Sánchez Pintado, Madrid (1999)

Thomas is Partner at CERHA HEMPEL since 2010 and with the law firm since 2004. He is Head of CEE Insolvency & Restructuring Practice, concentrating in mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganizations with a special focus on insolvency & restructuring, as well as venture capital and private equity mandates. Thomas is particularly renowned for cross-border transactions, often for Anglo-Saxon clients in view of his admission to the New York Bar. ​ He has worked in-house in M&A for a listed construction company. Thomas is a guest lecturer in Mergers & Acquisitions at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

German, English, French, Spanish, Basic knowledge of Russian

Vienna Bar Association International Bar Association AVCO - Austrian Private Equity and Venture Capital Organisation New York Bar Association American Bar Association Lex Mundi - The World's Leading Association of Independent Law Firms

Secondment at STRABAG SE, Capital Markets & M&A, Compliance Officer (2007/2008); University of Graz (Mag. iur. 1999, Dr. iur. 2003); Goldberg, Gelman & Harnik, New York (2002); Kellogg School of Management, Master's Degree in Business Administration (2001); Cremades & Sánchez Pintado, Madrid (1999); Northwestern University School of Law (LL.M. 2001); Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid (1998-1999)