Cerha Hempel

Corporate/M&A

Managing Partner / Head of Department Corporate Transactions, specialised in Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate, Compliance & Investigations, Private Equity & Venture Capital.

Admitted, (Attorney at Law), Austria Admitted, (Solicitor),  England and Wales Admitted, (Attorney at Law), New York

Functions:

Managing Partner Head of Department Corporate Transactions Lecturer in Mergers & Acquisitions at the Master of Business Law (MBL) Corporate Law program at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) Lecturer at the Master of Laws (LL.M.) program for Contract Law and Contract Drafting at the Danube University Krems Member of the board of examiners for the judicial office examination in Vienna Lecturer at the Austrian Lawyers Academy (Anwaltsakademie)

Managing Partner Clemens Hasenauer is Head of Department Corporate Transactions since 2007, specialising in M&A, public takeover​transactions, banking and finance, reorganisations and restructurings. He is particularly renowned for structuring large international joint ventures​ and public takeovers. Clemens regularly advises on Austria’s most prominent M&A deals, e.g. just recently advising XXXLutz Group establishing a 50/50 partnership in Black Red White Group (a large furniture retailer and producer based in Poland), or the advice of publicly-listed International Flavors & Fragrances Inc of the sales transaction, which included Savory Solutions Group and the  advice of Vienna based OMV AG in connection with the sale of OMV's filling station business in Germany to the British EG Group.

Clemens is also a university lecture (holding M&A classes for post-graduate studies) and is author of a number of publications, in particular in the field of corporate, M&A, takeover and capital markets law. In addition, he is the academic chair of the most renowned annual legal conference in Austria (Business Circle's RuSt) which has a strong focus on legal and tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions and other transactions.

German, English, French

Vienna Bar Association (Council) The Law Society American Bar Association New York State Bar Association International Bar Association Lex Mundi - The World's Leading Association of Independent Law Firms

Vienna University of Economics and Business, WU Executive Academy (MBA, 2017);  New York University School of Law (LL.M. 1997), Fulbright Scholar; University of Vienna (Mag.iur. 1994, Dr.iur. 1996);  Faculté de droit, Paris V - Université Paris Descartes (1992/93)