bpv Hügel

Corporate/M&A, Capital Markets, Finance & Regulatory

Partner

With bpv Huegel since 2009. Prior with Cheyne Capital, London (leading Europe alternative investment fund manager).

He is partner with focus on corporate/M&A (especially for listed companies), boardroom advice, boardroom advice, mergers/spin-offs, takeover situations and capital market transactions (ECM equity, equity-linked) as well as banking and financial market regulation.

Having a significant large cap transaction track record representing international and Austrian blue chips across various industries. Top 5 in the Individual 15 yrs. (2023) M&A League Table of Mergermarket per value for Austria with approx. €19bn total deal value.

STRABAG on €900mn capital repayment with scrip-rights for new shares to reduce the stake of sanctions affected “MKAO” Rasperia Trading Limited €337.5mn increase of shareholding above 50% in S IMMO by IMMOFINANZ incl long-term credit facility provided by CPIPG STRABAG on the €580mn mandatory takeover bid of Haselsteiner Familien-Privatstiftung, Raiffeisen-Holding and UNIQA-Versicherung combined with repurchase of treasury shares by STRABAG IMMOFINANZ as target in the bidding contest between CPI Property Group and S IMMO (first competing takeover bids since 1999 takeover rules came into force) (shortlisted as M&A-Deal of the Year/ IFLR Europe Awards 2023) IMMOFINANZ on its €1.14 bn takeover bid for S IMMO incl € 500mn Bridge Facility €356mn combined placement of subordinated mandatory convertible notes (first-to-market in Austria) and share placement by IMMOFINANZ in ABBs R-IT as shareholder in CHF380mn, CHF350mn and CHF111mn placements of SoftwareONE shares in ABBs Unzer (former: heidelpay Group) on the acquisition of Paysafe’s Pay Later business R-IT as shareholder in the IPO of SoftwareONE at SIX with CHF2.9bn market cap Constantia Flexibles on the €50mn settlement upon the squeeze-out compensation for Constantia Packaging shareholders €390mn strategic acquisition in listed S IMMO by IMMOFINANZ Sale of global operating COMPAREX Group to KKR backed Swiss SoftwareONE by Raiffeisen Informatik €760mn sale by IMMOFINANZ of stake in listed CAI to Starwood Capital RZB on its merger with listed RBI (highest profile banking sector transaction in Austria/CEE in 2017) (Austrian Deal of the Year/ CEE Deal of the Year Awards 2018) €1.4bn Spin-off of BUWOG (first from an ATX company) (European Capital Markets Tax Deal of the Year 2015/ International Tax Review)

German, English

International Bar Association

University of Vienna (1998 Mag. iur., 2002 Dr. iur.), Vienna University of Economics and Business (2006 LL.M. International Tax Law)