Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte GmbH & Co KG

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Alexander Zollner

Partner, since 2013; Andrea Gritsch heads the firm’s Banking & Finance practice in Austria and across CEE/SEE. Andrea has a strong focus on the financial industry and specializes on cross-border M&A, distressed situations including NPL, corporate and financial restructuring, banking and financial services as well as regulatory compliance. Her clients include banks, financial institutions, insurance undertakings, strategic and financial investors as well as private equity. Andrea is also active in the fast-evolving area of financial technology (FinTech), assisting regulated and non-regulated businesses in digital transformation and taking up new technologies.

Partner; specialised in Structured Finance; Projects (Infrastructure, Energy & Utilities); Restructuring Andreas is an internationally renowned finance and projects expert known for his outstanding experience in high-profile transactions (including large infrastructure and energy projects) and his hands-on approach in transaction management. He has advised numerous financial institutions, large corporates and private equity funds on domestic and cross-border structured finance and debt-restructuring transactions.

Senior Associate.

Anna Schwamberger

Christian Hoenig

Partner since 1992. Christian is an internationally recognised specialist in corporate/M&A, private equity/venture capital and insolvency/restructuring with some deep background in tax from his early years in practice. He played a key role in the expansion of Wolf Theiss into the CEE/SEE region starting from 1995. Christian has extensive experience with major transactions in the renewable energy, steel, railway, automotive, tobacco, financial, real estate, telecommunications and IT industries. He also advises start-ups and VC funds, in particular in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and medical products.

Christian Mikosch

Partner specialising in corporate law, international commercial law and mergers & acquisitions with particular expertise in the CEE/SEE region. Besides being the responsible partner for Wolf Theiss' work in Kosovo, Christian has developed a unique know-how in privatizations and negotiations with governments.

Christine Siegl

Counsel, specialised in Banking Law, Regulatory Law, Capital Markets Law, Corporate Law and M&A.

Christopher Juenger

Partner, since 2020, specialising in M&A transactions and corporate matters. She has been involved in numerous Austrian and cross-border transactions and restructurings in the healthcare / life science, IT, manufacturing, construction, transport, real estate and consulting industries.

Claudia Fessler

Consultant, specializing in Litigation, Civil Law, Criminal Law.

Claus Schneider

Partner; specialised in capital markets, debt and structured finance, bank regulatory law, corporate transactions. A debt, hybrid and structured issues expert, Claus has worked on some of the most innovative and other first-time debt and hybrid issues in Austria and has been one of the key legal advisors regarding bank support measures undertaken by the Republic of Austria amid financial crises.

Clemens Trauttenberg

Partner; specialised in commercial litigation, white collar criminal defence and investigations, crisis managment, financial markets litigation, strakeholder disputes, investor protection, private clients - high net worth individuals, inheritance law and restitution, distribution law.

Attorney at law

Daniel Lungenschmid

Senior Associate.

Senior Associate.

Counsel; specialized in Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Restructuring, Project Management and Private Client Business. Doris has particular expertise in corporate and contract law, international project management, mergers and acquisitions and as well as in the estate administration of high net worth clients and their families.

Elisabeth Poetscher

Senior Associate.

Emmanuel Kaufman

Counsel, specialising in international commercial and investment arbitration as well as construction disputes. He has gained considerable experience working under the major arbitration rules, including the ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL and Vienna Rules. Emmanuel focusses on disputes in the CEE/SEE region and on disputes involving, in particular, Spanish and South American parties.

Partner; specialised in Central and Eastern Europe, Real Estate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Project Finance. Erik specializes in real estate matters across the CEE/SEE region and he has significant expertise in the areas of financing, mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring. His practice focuses in particular on the hotel and leisure industry, the investment and divestment of commercial property with cross-border elements and opportunities for joint ventures.

Partner; specialised in insolvency law and commercial litigation. Work includes representation of major creditors in insolvency proceedings as well as protection and enforcement of creditors' rights. Further broad experience in handling commercial litigation cases, acting for national and international clients.

Counsel, since 2018, specialising in private clients, international tax law, taxation of financial instruments, tax planning of international groups and mergers & acquisitions.

Florian Kusznier

Consultant, since 2018, specialising in civil & commercial litigation and white collar crime disputes, including bribery and corruption, fraud and compliance.

Partner; specialised in Intellectual Property (Trademarks, Patents, Copyrights, Designs), TMT (software, service level and maintenance agreements, outsourcing), Unfair Competition, New Media and Internet, Pharma and Health Care.

Partner; specialised in EU competition law, national and CEE/SEE antitrust law (cartels, dominance issues, merger control, compliance programmes, cooperation agreements and vertical restraints), distribution law, State aid.

Hannah Schaflinger

Senior Associate, since 2014, specialising in construction law.

Senior Associate.

Ingrid Makarius

Counsultant, Wolf Theiss, since 2012, specialising in public procurement and public business law.

Counsel, specialising in extrajudicial advice and employment litigation, with a special focus on restructuring, executive agreements and employment contracts as well as cross-border issues.

Of Counsel and a member of the Banking and Finance practice group. Judit specialises in finance transactions and work-out banking transactions (including white collar crime cases).

Karin Spindler-Simader

Consultant. Karin specialises in corporate tax law and tax aspects of reorganisations, international tax planning as well as international and European tax law. Karin is admitted as a tax adviser with years of experience as an authorised signatory in leading tax consulting firms and is experienced in providing tax advice on complex international M&A transactions.

Partner, specializing in Real Estate, Corporate, EC-Law, Inheritance-Law, Private Clients.

Partner, since 2001. Kurt has practiced in various fields of regulatory law including: regulated industries (energy, telecommunications and rail), life sciences, insurance, banking and finance, gambling law, environmental law, compliance, data protection, infrastructure projects, aviation, as well as private clients.

Partner, since 2018, specializing in financing and capital market transactions with a focus on advising national and international clients on domestic and cross-border structured debt financing transactions (in particular project financings, acquisition financings and corporate lending), secured finance transactions, restructuring transactions and issuance of bonds. He has extensive experience as counsel to lenders and arrangers as well as debtors and issuers in Austria and CEE.

Partner; specialised in Real Estate, Construction and Building Law, Leasing, Contracts, Development Projects, Real Estate Investment Trusts.

Senior Associate.

Senior Associate

Magdalena Ziembicka

Consultant, specialising in employment law matters related to contract design, restructurings, corporate M&As, cross-border employment, as well as employee data protection.

Manfred Essletzbichler

Partner; specialised in Public Procurement Law, Business Law, Competition and Antitrust Law. Manfred regularly advises on major infrastructure projects and on tenders concerning intellectual services, medical devices or IT-systems as well as on alleged infringements of procurement law. He represents parties in review proceedings before Procurement Review Authorities and also specializes in compliance regarding public tenders.

Maren Jergolla-Wagner

Senior Associate; specialised in Intellectual Property (in particular trade mark law, design law, copyright law, and anti-counterfeiting; licensing and distribution law), Life Science (in particular pharmaceutical and medical device law, including advertising law), Unfair Competition Law (in particular advertising law, law on sales promotion and law on product imitations), Litigation, mainly in the above-mentioned fields.

Marika Lomashvili

Partner, since 2021, specialising in banking, finance and capital markets. During her years as a qualified lawyer she has advised international financial institutions, corporations, credit institutions on a numerous capital market transactions, numerous aspects of banking and capital markets law as well as on regulatory matters, corporate law and private equity.

Counsel, specialising in acquisition, project and real estate financing and debt restructuring.

Markus Heidinger

Partner; specialised in finance and corporate finance, finance regulatory. Work includes all forms of financing structures and products, M&A and restructuring in the finance industry, banking and capital markets regulatory, representing clients against the FMA.

Of Counsel, Wolf Theiss, since 2011; specializing in environmental law, EU policy and constitutional and administrative law.

Martina Edlinger

Counsel. Martina specialises in cross-border and domestic corporate reorganisations, M&A transactions and general Austrian corporate law matters.

Matthias Schimka

Partner, since 2020, specialising in banking law and debt financing transactions.

Matthias Unterrieder

Partner; specialised in Employment Law in Austria and CEE/SEE, cross-border staff assignements, reorganisations, management contracting.

Melanie Dimitrov

Michael Mueller

Counsel, specialised in construction law. Michael focuses on project-related legal advice on construction projects (tunnel and cavern construction, road transport infrastructure, power plant construction, property construction, residential buildings etc) and also represents construction companies in alternative dispute resolution procedures and before courts. He also advises on legal questions regarding Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Counsel, specialising in banking, investment funds and capital markets law with a focus on advising national and international clients in regulatory questions.

Natascha Stanke

Nicholas Coddington

Partner; With over 20 years post-qualification experience, Nicholas has extensive expertise in complex corporate and project finance transactions with a particular focus on export financing, energy, green and sustainable financing, infrastructure and real estate finance. He is admitted as a Solicitor in England & Wales and also in the Republic of Ireland.

Partner; specialised in International Tax Law, Tax Planning of International Groups, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Foundations, Capital Markets Law, Taxation of Investment Funds and Financial Instruments, Corporate Finance, Corporate Law, Private Clients.

Nikolaus Loudon

Partner and head of the firm-wide Banking & Finance team. Nikolaus has a special focus on financing transactions, including financial restructurings, in Austria and the CEE/SEE region. Besides his financing and restructuring focus, Nikolaus has extensive experience in the field of investment funds (UCITS and AIF), including the establishment of multi-jurisdictional fund structures.

Nikolaus Dinhof-Renezeder

Patrick Troller

Senior Associate.

Paulina Pomorski

Counsel, Wolf Theiss, specialising in intellectual property law, unfair competition law, information technology and data protection.

Peter Oberlechner

Partner; specialised in Mergers & Acquisitions, General Corporate, Real Estate.

Counsel specialising in Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking & Finance, Corporate Law.

Petra Trauntschnig

Consultant; specialised in Insurance, Litigation.

Philipp Szelinger

Counsel. Philipp specialises in the conception and negotiation of construction, planning and consultancy contracts as well as in national and international construction contract disputes.

Counsel, since 2015, specialising in public procurement law, in particular on planning and implementing tender procedures. He advises and represents Austrian and international clients – both bidders and contracting authorities – in reviewing procedures.

Phillip Wrabetz

Senior Associate.

Partner; specialised in Agreements with Executives, Austrian and Eastern European Employment Law, Contracts, Corporate, Litigation and Representation Before Governmental Authorities, Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Pension & Benefits, Restructuring and Rationalisation Measures.

Raphael Valenta

Partner; specialised in Equity Capital Markets, Financial Regulatory, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking & Finance.

Partner specialising in EU and Austrian competition law, in particular cartel investigations, abuse cases, vertical agreements and licensing agreements, as well as state aid and general EU law.

Roland Vesenmayer

Senior Associate.

Partner, specialised in information technology law, data protection law, intellectual property law, unfair competition law, food law (all fields including litigation).

Senior Associate.

Partner, specialising in cross-border transactions in the field of M&A, corporate, and private foundation law. Sarah has expertise in a wide range of industry sectors including private equity and venture capital, financial institutions and TMT.

Sebastian Prakljacic

Senior Associate.

Sebastian Oberzaucher

Partner, Wolf Theiss, since 2014, specializing in Public Procurement Law, PPP, Construction Law, Competition and Antitrust Law. Sebastian advises contracting authorities on planning and implementing tender procedures regarding complex infrastructure projects. He advises and represents both contracting authorities as well as bidders in review procedures before the Austrian public procurement reviewing authorities and bidders during tender procedures in order to safeguard full compliance of their bids with public procurement law as well as the tender documents (tender specifications).

Partner, specializing in public procurement, state aid and contract law, as well as in PPP's and project development.

Stefan Wartinger

Partner. Stefan's practice includes complex cartel and abuse of dominance cases before the European Commission and the Austrian courts as well as the coordination of leniency applications at a national and EU level. Stefan also has many years of experience in advising on merger control proceedings at a national and EU level.

Partner, head of the firm-wide Disputes practice.

Senior Associate.

Theresia Welser

Senior Associate

Partner, since 2017, specialising in construction law. Thomas is regularly involved in complex matters in this field of expertise, both national and international, including representing construction companies before courts, arbitral tribunals and FIDIC-Dispute Adjudication Boards.

Of Counsel specializing in Civil Procedure Law and International Civil Procedure Law.

Valerie Hohenberg

Partner, Wolf Theiss, since 2017, specialising in Corporate Litigation, D&O Liability and Life Sciences.

Vanessa Horaceck

Senior Associate

Venus Valentina Wong

Partner, specialising in international arbitration. Valentina has acted as counsel, arbitrator (sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chairperson) and administrative secretary in more than 70 arbitration and other ADR cases under the major arbitration rules, including ICC, LCIA, VIAC, DIS, Swiss Rules, CEAC, CAS and UNCITRAL. She has experience with parties from the CEE/SEE region, Turkey as well as from China and Hong Kong.

Wolfgang Mueller

Partner, Wolf Theiss, since 2012, specializing in Civil and Company Law; Building Contracts; Compensation for damages and defects liability; Dispute Resolution before state courts, arbitral tribunals and FIDIC Dispute Adjudication Boards. For the past 20 years, Wolfgang has focused entirely on project-related legal advice on construction projects (property construction, infrastructure projects, tunnel and cavern construction, power plant construction, plant construction, FIDIC agreements).

Wolfgang Lauchner

Partner, member of the Wolf Theiss public procurement team since 2010.

Nikolaus Loudon