Wolf Theiss

The firm: Wolf Theiss opened its first office in Vienna in 1957 and soon established a reputation as one of the region’s leading law firms. The firm has since grown into a multinational team of approximately 390 lawyers, making it one of the largest integrated law firms in the region. It has offices* in Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brussels, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Ukraine.

This presence on the ground is one of the firm’s key strengths. It works in a fast-moving part of the world that requires deep local knowledge and experience. By combining expertise with a strong international network, the firm is well-placed to handle complex cross-border transactions with a high degree of speed and flexibility.

Apart from its local offices in 13 CEE/SEE countries and a central European hub in Brussels, Wolf Theiss also offers extensive regional experience in other countries in the region, such as Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia.

*The firm has regulatory frameworks within which it needs to comply. So by ‘presence’, we mean a legal form that is in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations in that country.

Areas of practice: Wolf Theiss’ full range of services covers financial services, competition and antitrust, compliance and investigations, corporate/mergers and acquisitions, employment law, energy and infrastructure, intellectual property and information technology, litigation and alternative dispute resolution, real estate and construction, regulatory and procurement, and tax. The firm’s dedicated practice teams provide in-depth specialist knowledge in their respective areas and collaborate closely to provide clients with seamless advice.

Romania: The Bucharest office is one of the largest offices within Wolf Theiss’ network. With a team of over 50 lawyers (including 9 partners), it is poised to meet the needs of our clients in such an exciting market.
We have been present in Romania since 2005, and our local team has proven experience in complex domestic and cross-border transactions. We support both international companies and domestic entrepreneurs to capitalize on the Romanian market’s many opportunities. The team boasts expertise in all areas of law combined with industry know-how and a focus on results. Investors looking to take advantage of the opportunities in the Romanian market benefit from the know-how and experience of the Wolf Theiss team, which has handled some of the largest transactions on the local market. As a result, we have developed extensive experience managing complex domestic and multi-jurisdictional matters. The local lawyers have extensive experience in all areas of commercial law, with a particular emphasis on Corporate M&A, Energy, Banking & Finance, Dispute resolution & Arbitration, Employment, Data protection, Real Estate, Restructuring & Insolvency, Competition & Antitrust, Intellectual Property and Corporate Investigations.