Dispute Resolution, Insurance, Commercial, Energy &Climate Change , Private Clients, Competition & EU, Corporate/M&A, Insolvency & Restructuring

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.

University of Vienna: assistant professor at the Institute of Roman Law and History of Ancient Law (1987-1990), assistant professor at the Institute of Civil Law (1990-1996), foreign students advisor of the Vienna Law School (1989–1991), lecturer for preparatory courses for admittance to law studies (1990/91); University of Linz: lecturer for legal French in a post-graduate course on European law (1997-2002); associate and attorney at well-known Austrian law firms (1991/92, 1996–1999), attorney at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz since 2000 (partner since 2004).

German, English, French, Italian.

Austrian Bar Association, International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), ICC Commission on Arbitration.

University of Vienna (Mag. iur., 1990), Université de Paris II, Panthéon-Assas, (1987/88).

She is also a sought-after speaker at seminars and the author or co-author of numerous specialist publications.