KWR Karasek Wietrzyk Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Energy industry and energy-​intensive industries, Renewable Energies, Arbitration, Litigation before state civil and execution courts

Counsel

Nicolas O. Zenz has been counsel in KWR's energy law team since 2024, where he focusses on dispute resolution and advice in the (renewable) energy sector. From 2019 to 2024, he already worked at KWR as an associate and attorney at law.

Nicolas Zenz gained initial professional experience at the Federation of Austrian Industries, the Federal Finance Court, various renowned companies and commercial law firms in Vienna and London from 2008 to 2015 and was also a teaching tutor at the Institute for Tax Law at WU Vienna. In 2015/2016, he completed his court internship at the Vienna Commercial Court and Hietzing District Court. In 2016, he started as an associate at the arbitration boutique Zeiler Floyd Zadkovich, where he specialised in commercial and investment arbitration.

German, English

Member of the Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners (YAAP) and Young Industry Vienna

WU Wien (LL.B. 2012), WU Wien (BSc 2015, LL.M. 2015), Semester abroad at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2012-2013) and Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan (2014), Bar exam with honours (2018)