CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Alexander Rakosi

Alexander Rakosi is a partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and a member of the corporate transactions team in Vienna. He is a leading expert for corporate law/M&A as well as private equity and insolvency & restructuring. Alexander Rakosi advises leading corporations, investment funds and financial institutions in the areas of M&A, private equity and restructuring in both domestic and international projects. After his law studies in Vienna and at the University of Michigan Law School (LLM), Alexander Rakosi worked for several years at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York in the areas of M&A, private equity and corporate finance. Alexander Rakosi is also admitted to the bar in England/Wales and New York.

Andrea Potz

Partner

Andreas Jöst

Senior Lawyer

Anja Cervenka

Lawyer

Anna Freund

Lawyer

Arno Zimmermann

Arno Zimmermann is an attorney-at-law for corporate law/M&A, inheritance law and litigation & arbitration (dispute resolution). He also specialises in directors' liability.

Bernhard Hainz

Bernhard Hainz is a partner at CMS in Vienna and head of the specialist Employment and Pension Law Department. Bernhard Hainz is one of the leading specialists in Austria and for more than 30 years has primarily advised companies in all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including the negotiation of collective agreements, works agreements, social plans, disputes with works councils and employees, service agreements and dissolution agreements as well as pension and pension fund matters. As a result of his previous position as an assistant at the Vienna University Institute for Employment Law and Social Law, Bernhard Hainz and his team combine high-level academic qualifications with many years of practical legal experience. In addition, Bernhard Hainz has expertise in the area of art law and in this connection he represents artists and art institutions both nationally and internationally.

Bernt Elsner

Partner

Christina Maria Schwaiger

Lawyer

Christoph Wolf

Christoph Wolf is a partner at CMS and heads the employment and pensions team together with Bernhard Hainz. For over 15 years he has been particularly advising companies with respect to judicial and extra-judicial labour law matters, including the implementation of restructuring measures, negotiating works agreements and redundancy plans as well as settling disputes with works councils and employees.  An additional focal point of his work revolves around providing support to former state-owned companies, as well as dealing with various labour law-related issues in the area of compliance projects. He also advises clients on legal issues concerning the international secondment of staff as well as all labour law topics relevant in the field of compliance. In addition, Christoph Wolf has served and continues to serve as a lecturer at the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the Danube University Krems as well as the Medical University of Vienna.

Clemens Grossmayer

Partner

Daniela Karollus-Bruner

Daniela Karollus-Bruner is a partner at CMS and leads our dispute resolution group as well as the insurance industry team. In addition, she is a member of our teams for corporate and commercial law. She has many years of experience with highly complex litigation and arbitration cases for clients from various industries, with a special focus on the energy, media, banking, financial services and insurance industries. She represents Austrian and international clients at courts and at arbitration courts with a focus on cases involving damages, contracts, product liability, corporate and competition law. During and after law school in Vienna and Paris, she held assistant positions with the University of Vienna Law School (e.g. at the Department of Civil Law). She has over 20 years of experience as a lawyer in Vienna and Linz. In addition, she is a sought-after speaker at executive seminars as well as author and co-author of various expert articles.

Daniela Krömer

Daniela Krömer is an attorney-at-law in the field of Labour Law and EU Law. She has been a member of the Employment Law Team at CMS since 2013. In addition to standard employment law advice, she also supports clients primarily in matters of European employment law, for example in the area of cross-border employment of workers, in particular in the area of wage and social dumping, as well as in questions of equal treatment.

David Kohl

Partner

Dieter Zandler

Dieter Zandler is a lawyer specialising in European and Austrian competition law, foreign direct investment control and corporate law/M&A. He represents national and international companies, especially in cartel (fine), merger control and abuse of dominance proceedings before Austrian competition authorities, the European Commission and in court. He also advises his clients on antitrust compliance and antitrust damages claims as well as on foreign direct investment control.

Egon Engin-Deniz

Partner

Florian Mayer

Partner

Gabriela Staber

Gabriela Staber is an attorney-at-law specialising in intellectual property and unfair competition law with a sector focus on life sciences & healthcare and TMC (technology, media & telecommunications).  She advises on issues related to the marketing and distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical devices as well as the protection of intellectual property. Her expertise includes advertising and product labelling, compliance, restructuring of distribution systems, reimbursement / market access, clinical trials, licensing, counterfeits and parallel imports and dispute resolution.

Gregor Famira

Gregor Famira is partner at CMS Vienna and an expert for the hotel and leisure industry and  in corporate law/M&A. He is founder and head of the CMS offices in Zagreb (2003) and Ljubljana (2008) and also coordinates the firm’s activities in the area of Real Estate in CEE and has been active in CEE for 20 years. During this time, he has advised on numerous corporate and real estate transactions in the region Gregor Famira focusses on the asset classes ‘hotels’ and ‘trade’; he advises owners, financiers and operators/traders not only on transactions, but also on rental and lease agreements as well as franchise and hotel management contracts and real estate developments. Gregor Famira’s second pillar (since 2005) is advising mainly Austrian start-up companies.

Günther Hanslik

Günther Hanslik is a partner in the transactions team of CMS Vienna, focusing on finance transactions, restructurings and corporate transactions. As head of the transactional finance team of CMS Vienna, he supports clients in high-profile projects in Austria and CEE. He continuously acts on behalf of leading European financial institutions as well as large corporations. Günther Hanslik has been teaching at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration for many years.  

Hans Lederer

Partner

Jens Winter

Jens Winter is an attorney-at-law in the field of employment law. He is a partner at CMS and advises national and international companies mainly on questions of individual and collective employment law, data protection law in the area of employment law and company pension law. He is the author of numerous publications and is frequently asked to lecture on this area of expertise. He has many years of experience representing national and international clients before courts and public authorities. In addition, he has extensive practical experience in the implementation and realisation of company restructuring and the spin-off or merger of businesses or individual business units in the course of domestic or international transfers of operations. He has also been called on for his employment law expertise in the evaluation and realisation of several domestic and cross-border transactions.

Jia Schulz-Cao

Lawyer

Johannes Juranek

Managing Partner

Johannes Hysek

Johannes Hysek is an attorney-at-law for real estate law. He advises national and international clients on a wide range of topics from financing agreements to the acquisition, sale and development of commercial real estate and real estate portfolios. For many years he has advised numerous Austrian and international clients—including insurance companies and funds—on real estate transactions (including mortgage-backed syndicated loan agreements), privatisations and corporate restructurings. In addition, he regularly supports international (luxury) brands in their market entry and the establishment of flagship stores in Austria. Johannes Hysek has been a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) for many years and is a lecturer at the FH for Real Estate Management. Johannes Hysek has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.

Johannes Reich-Rohrwig

Partner

Klaus Pateter

Klaus Pateter is an attorney-at law for Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMC), FinTech & Digital Assets, IT Law, Data Protection, Digitalisation & Start-ups. Klaus Pateter advises and represents his clients in the areas of regulatory law, digital assets, IT law, licensing of technology and software (domestic & international), data protection law and medical technology. He also specialises in advising tech start-ups in all phases of growth and advises on setting up corporate structures as well as on founding and financing, in particular in the area of venture capital. He heads the Start-up Advisory Group of CMS Austria and coordinates equIP, CMS' renowned legal accelerator for tech start-ups.

Lukas Peissl

Lukas Peissl is an attorney-at-law primarily in the field of corporate law/M&A and dispute resolution. Lukas J. Peissl's practice focuses on out-of-court and judicial dispute resolution, including representation before arbitral tribunals (ICC, VIAC, UNCITRAL, Swiss Rules, ad hoc), primarily representing companies in corporate and construction disputes. In addition, HNI is also advised and represented in connection with questions of inheritance law and corporate succession.

Marcell Clark

Marcell Clark is a Partner at CMS Vienna and attorney-at-law for Banking & Finance. He has over 25 years’ experience in cross-border financing and real estate transactions and has represented clients on their most important transactions in the CEE and SEE regions and around the globe. In addition to senior secured and unsecured transactions, he has extensive experience advising on construction and subordinated debt matters as well as real estate investment, agricultural and timber funds in their acquisitions and dispositions.

Mariella Kapoun

Partner

Marlene Wimmer-Nistelberger

Partner

Martin Zuffer

Martin Zuffer is a partner at CMS and heads the Banking and Capital Markets Law Team. In addition he specialises in corporate law and private equity. He is  specialised in capital market law.

Nikolaus Weselik

Nikolaus Weselik is partner at CMS Vienna and head of the Construction and Real Estate Law Practice Group. He is an attorney-at-law for national and international construction contract law and real estate law, for construction litigation and other forms of dispute resolution, for legal questions of project development, as well as for the purchase and sale of real estate projects or individual properties.

Peter Huber

Peter Huber  is partner and Head of the CMS Austria International Transaction Team and has decades of professional experience in the field of corporate transactions, including more than four years with leading investment banks. His areas of expertise are M&A (including privatisations and public takeovers) and corporate law (including corporate governance) in Austria as well as in Central and Eastern Europe.  

Philipp Mark

Partner

Radivoje Petrikić

Radivoje Petrikić is a partner at CMS in Vienna and has been the managing partner of the Serbian CMS office in Belgrade since its establishment in 2000. As a leading expert in the fields of corporate/M&A, competition law & EU, corporate law, commercial law as well as finance and project financing, he has more than 20 years of experience in extensive commercial and M&A transactions and development projects throughout the CEE region. He has an in-depth understanding of all corporate and financial issues faced by companies operating in transitional markets. He is also an experienced advisor to regulators in these markets. Radivoje Petrikić is one of Serbia's leading M&A lawyers, leading a team that has advised on many landmark corporate and commercial law cases, as well as privatisations, in a variety of industries over the past 20 years. He has been appointed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as senior legal advisor on the revision of Serbian corporate law and PPP legislation

Robert Keisler

Partner

Sibylle Novak

Sibylle Novak has been a partner at CMS since 2008 and is an expert in national and international tax law. She is among the very few law experts in Austria who are admitted to the bar (since 2006) and also certified as tax advisors (since 2002). She can draw on more than 20 years of work experience. In her work, she specialises in tax-optimising transactions, M&A, restructurings, private foundations as well as private equity and venture capital deals.

Sonja Otenhajmer

Partner

Stefan Paulmayer

Partner

Stefan Honeder

Lawyer

Thomas Hamerl

Partner

Thomas Böhm

Partner

Thomas Aspalter

Lawyer

Walter Gapp

Walter Gapp is an attorney-at-law who has specialized for many years in the fields of capital markets law and financial market regulation. He regularly advises on preparing issuance programmes as well as  bonds issuanceand regulatory capital instruments. He also focuses on the structuring and support of securitization transactions, new business models proposed by financial service providers, as well as giving comprehensive regulatory advice to banks, insurance companies and securities firms. Walter Gapp is repeatedly mentioned as a leading lawyer in the field of capital markets law and banking regulation, he has been described as "highly regarded" (IFLR 1000) and placed on the list of "best lawyers (banking and finance law)" (Handelsblatt 2019).