Corporate/M&A, Capital Markets, Tax

2014-2018 Associate with bpv Huegel, since 2018 Attorney at Law at bpv Huegel with special focus on corporate/M&A, takeovers and capital market transactions as well as tax advice with special focus on corporate tax law, tax audits, tax disputes and fiscal criminal law proceedings.

Work highlights include:

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) Family-owned holding company on the sale of its majority stake in Austrian food producer WOJNAR Group and entering into a strategic partnership with VIVATIS € 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 CHF 380mn, CHF 350mn and CHF 111mn placements of SoftwareONE shares in ABBs R-IT as shareholder in the IPO of SoftwareONE at SIX with CHF 2.9bn market cap €390mn strategic acquisition in listed S IMMO by IMMOFINANZ €760mn sale by IMMOFINANZ of stake in listed CAI to Starwood Capital Joint bookrunners at €300mn capital increase of BUWOG AG BAWAG P.S.K. on the acquisition of start:bausparkasse/IMMO-BANK from Volksbanken-Verbund RZB on its merger with listed RBI (highest profile banking sector transaction in Austria/CEE in 2017) Information service provider (private equity group) on internal investigations and subsequent tax and fiscal criminal law analysis Several groups in tax disputes (including fiscal criminal law support) on debt push down structures, goodwill amortization in tax groups, abuse, offshore payments and recipient identification, transfer of IP and license payments, reorganizations

Attorney at Law

University of Vienna (2013 Mag. iur), 2013 court practice