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Adrian Bell
Adrian Bell
Partner | Co-head of the Infrastructure, Construction and Energy Disputes Group | Joint Managing Director for Asia and the Middle East
Agnieszka Starzyńska
Agnieszka Starzyńska
Counsel, Antitrust, Competition and Trade Department in Poland, Counsel, Head of the Life Sciences and Healthcare Practice in Poland
Alexander Rakosi
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 Zubović-Devedžić
Andrea Zubović-Devedžić
Andrea Zubović-Devedžić is an attorney with experience in legal work in Bosnia and Herzegovina, admitted to the Bar after passing the Bar exam. She joined CMS Sarajevo in 2010. Her fields of expertise range from Banking and Finance and Corporate, litigation with significant experience in legal advising in number of other practice areas. Besides mentioned, Ms Zubovic-Devedzic possesses experience in legal advising in number of other practice areas and for the past seven years she advised a number of international clients in all commercial, corporate and property law issues.Andrea Zubović-Devedžić is a partner in cooperation with CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. She specialises in banking and finance and the corporate field and has significant experience in litigation and legal advising in a number of other practice areas. For the past nine years, she has advised a number of international clients in all commercial, corporate and property law issues. She is experienced in banking and finance law, having been involved in some of the most innovative and ground-breaking banking and finance projects conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with particular emphasis on the local regulatory framework and structuring of the transactions. In particular, she has advised clients on the regulatory aspects of the different types of financial operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, coupled with transactional advice regarding financing projects including loans, capital markets, and syndicated structures, NPL restructuring and corporate aspects relevant for the finance industry.
Andrea Arcangeli
Andrea Arcangeli
Andrea Arcangeli started his collaboration with the Firm in 2017 in the Banking and Finance Department. Working in the Rome and Milan offices, Andrea specialises in private equity, venture capital, private debt and real estate with reference to fund formation, investment management and financial services. Andrea is a member of AIFI and since 2017 he is ranked among the most appreciated professionals in Europe according to Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500.
Arno Zimmermann
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.
Barry Edgar
Barry Edgar
Barry is a partner in the Real Estate practice based in our Glasgow office having joined the firm in 2005. His varied workload encompasses a broad spectrum of commercial property work including investment acquisition and disposal, leasing on behalf of Landlords and Tenants, and development work for clients such as Hammerson, Aviva Investors, M&G Real Estate, Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited, London & Regional, Doosan Babcock, Scottish Enterprise and Glasgow Clyde College.
Ben Trust
Ben Trust
Partner, Co-Head Litigation and Arbitration
Bernhard Hainz
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
Bernt Elsner
Bernt Elsner is partner and global head of the CMS Public Procurement Group. He is a leading expert in the fields of public procurement, antitrust and public law. He studied law at the University of Vienna and business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. In 1993-94 he worked as a research assistant at the Austrian Constitutional Court for the constitutional judges Prof. Dr. Karl Spielbüchler and Prof. Dr. Karl Korinek. In 1997 he practised European competition law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels. From 2004 to 2010 he was Managing Partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. He has more than 24 years of professional experience in Vienna and Brussels. Bernt Elsner is one of the leading Austrian experts in the dynamic and constantly changing field of public procurement law. His numerous publications and lectures have had a significant impact on Austrian public procurement law. He advises public entities on the structuring of complex tenders, advises bidders on their participation in award procedures, especially public-private partnerships (PPP projects), and frequently represents them in public procurement disputes. He has extensive experience in tender-relevant compliance issues.
Borys Danevych
Partner, Head of Life Sciences & Healthcare practice at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang (Kyiv)
Brian Sher
Brian Sher
Partner and Head of Antitrust, Competition and Trade
Carlos Hamann
Carlos Hamann
Partner and cohead of the Energy practice area. Carlos specializes in energy, oil and gas, dispute resolution and foreign investment.
Carolina Gajate
Carolina Gajate
Partner and cohead of the Real Estate & Construction practice area. She specialises in real estate, construction, corporate M&A and finance matters in relation to real estate projects.
Caryn Miller
Caryn Miller
Partner and Managing Director for Asia and the Middle East
Cecilia Vargas
Cecilia Vargas
Partner at CMS Grau. Cecilia specialises on Labour, Occupational Health & Safety, Social Security and Employment issues, including foreign hiring.
Chris Watson
Chris Watson
Partner Chair, Technology, Media & Communications
Christoph Wolf
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.
Cristina Reichmann
Cristina Reichmann
Partner, Head of FIS, Capital Markets and Structured Finance practice in Romania
Daniela Krömer
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.
Daniela Karollus-Bruner
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.
Diego García
Diego García
Diego is the partner that leads the Tax group for CMS Carey & Allende. He focuses on tax planning and restructuring for local and foreign companies. He also provides consulting services regarding fiscal and municipal taxes for companies, high net-worth individuals and families. Diego works in close coordination with other areas of our firm, providing his experience and vision on tax matters, as an essential part of added value that we provide for our clients.
Dieter Zandler
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
Egon Engin-Deniz
Dr Egon Engin-Deniz is a partner in the firm and has been with CMS since 1991. Egon Engin-Deniz is an attorney-at-law for intellectual property law and a leading expert in the fields of Life Sciences & Healthcare and TMC - Technology, Media & Telecommunications. He heads the Intellectual Property and Media Department of CMS in Vienna. He has extensive expertise in contentious and non-contentious trademark, domain and patent law, copyright including access control law, distribution and unfair competition law. His team specialises in the prosecution of product piracy and the examination of parallel imports. Egon Engin-Deniz is a recognised expert in cross-border litigation and licensing. Equally important as his intensive involvement in litigation activities are the strategic "cradle to grave" advisory services he provides to companies, starting from the choice of names and portfolio management to trademark, patents and licensing strategies. Up until 2008, Egon Engin-Deniz was state commissioner for the Austrian collecting societies OeSTIG und LSG.
Eleanor Murray
Eleanor Murray
Partner, Head of Enfranchisement and Residential Disputes
Enrique Vergara
Enrique Vergara
Enrique is partner and head of Banking & Finance Group at CMS Carey & Allende since 2015. His practice focuses on financing, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate law. He has advised local and foreign clients on banking and financial matters, especially in syndicated loans, project finance for the infrastructure and energy sector, debt restructurings, credit transfers, and in the issuance and placement of corporate bonds that are publicly listed and offered on the market.
Evis Zaja
Evis Zaja is a partner at CMS Tirana. She has more than 15 years of experience in providing legal advice on corporate matters to national and international clients. She heads the competition practice at CMS Tirana. 
Gabriela Staber
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.
Gentscho Pavlov
Gentscho Pavlov
Co-Managing Partner of CMS Sofia and CEE Partner 2004 joined CMS Sofia
Giancarlo Villafranqui
Giancarlo Villafranqui
Partner at CMS Grau. He specializes in Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), Concessions, Administrative Law, Promotion and Development of Investment Projects.
Gordon Hay
Gordon Hay
Partner - Head of Banking and Finance Scotland
Graham Conlon
Graham Conlon
Managing Partner CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang Ukraine, Head of Private Equity– CEE/CIS
Gregor Famira
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
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.  
Horea Popescu
Horea Popescu
Managing Partner, Head of CEE Corporate M&A, Head of Corpoate M&A in Romania
Ian McGarr
Ian McGarr
Ian McGarr is a partner in the Real Estate Finance team.  
Ignacio Errazquin
Ignacio Errazquin
Ignacio is head of  Technology, Media & Communication (TMC) Group at CMS Carey & Allende. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, telecom, project finance with an emphasis on mining and non-conventional renewable energy projects, private equity and the structuring of joint ventures for businesses in different sectors. He also advises on antitrust matters in connection with merger control procedures. During the first half of 2018, Ignacio worked on the Corporate/M&A team at CMS Francis Lefebvre in Paris, France, where he participated in multiple cross-border transactions within Europe and with the US. He also advises French companies on their establishment as well as their business development in Chile.  
Ihor Olekhov
Ihor Olekhov
Partner, Head of Banking & Finance Practice at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang (Kyiv)
Indir Osmić
Indir Osmić is an attorney at law in cooperation with CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz admitted to the FBiH Bar. He joined CMS Sarajevo in 2011. His main fields of expertise are Corporate law, Finance law, Tax Law, Energy Law and Compliance.  Indir’s work also includes corporate finance work, such as coordinating M&A deals with focus on finance structuring and regulatory. He has expanded his experience by working as a country team leader in complex regional cross-border transaction projects.    Besides mentioned, Mr. Osmic possesses experience in commercial, administrative and tax litigation cases where he advised and represented a number of international clients.
Ivan Gergov
Ivan Gergov
Partner, CMS Sofia 2014 joined CMS Sofia Previous experience includes other international law firms and 2 investment banks.
Ivan Gazdić
Ivan Gazdić
Ivan Gazdić is a partner at CMS Belgrade with more than a decade of experience in assisting clients with the development of commercial real estate and energy projects in Serbia and in Montenegro.
Jane Evenson
Jane Evenson
Partner European and UK Patent Attorney, UPC representative
Javier Ferrero
Javier Ferrero
Javier Ferrero is a partner in the Dispute Resolution area at CMS Grau
Jens Winter
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.
Johannes Juranek
Johannes Juranek
Johannes Juranek is managing partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and an expert in technology, data protection and business law. He has extensive experience in handling complex legal cases in the areas of IT law, data protection and commercial law. Among other things, he advises clients on the implementation of compliance regulations in connection with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). His clients include technology, software and industrial companies, banks and healthcare companies. Johannes Juranek also represents clients before courts and arbitration tribunals in these areas.  
Johannes Hysek
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
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Litigation Group at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. For many years, Johannes has been one of the leading corporate lawyers in Austria and a highly esteemed litigator. As professor at the University of Vienna, Law school he has an outstanding academic reputation. He is author of various commentaries, books and articles with a particular focus on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and partnership law, including the leading commentary on the Austrian Act on limited liability companies. He is co-editor of “ecolex”, the leading Austrian commercial law journal. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.
Jonathan Dames
Jonathan Dames
Partner in the Infrastructure and Project Financing team.
Jorge Allende
Jorge Allende
Jorge is a senior partner and head of the Mining and Energy & Climate Change teams and co-head of Infrastructure & Projects team for CMS Carey & Allende. He also is very active within the Corporate/M&A practice group. He advises several national and multinational companies in the mining, engineering and construction, energy and natural resources industries. He also has extensive experience in project finance and M&A transactions, particularly in the areas mentioned. Previously, as member of the board  of large companies and knowing the private-sector needs from the inside, he has advised clients in connection with numerous large-scale mining projects in Chile since 1990, including the negotiation of multimillion-dollar EPC and EPCM contracts, acquisition of large mining concessions, foreign investment contracts and project finance deals. Key clients:  Inversiones Alxar (Empresas Copec’s mining assets company), Worley Chile S.A. (former Jacobs Chile), Elecnor (Spain), Nol-Tec Chile, Enagás (Spain), AECOM.
Jorge Allende Destuet
Jorge Allende Destuet
Jorge is partner and the co-head of the Corporate/M&A team. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital market operations, startups, and private equity. He counsels international clients on matters of finance, hospitality, and natural resources. He is also well recognized for his active practice in the capital markets arena and he has regularly participated in cross-border business combination operations, advising both local clients in their expansion endeavours in Latin America, as well as for foreign clients in their businesses in Chile, and in other regions of Latin America. Key clients: Sun Dreams S.A., The Blackstone Group L.P., Enagás S.A., Centerbridge Partners, AquaChile S.A, KKR.
Juan Carlos Escudero
Juan Carlos Escudero
Managing partner and cohead of the Banking and Finance, Corporate and M&A and Capital Markets areas.
Juan José Hopkins
Juan José Hopkins
Partner of the Corporate M&A and TMC area. He is an expert in financial transactions, M&A, Venture Capital and Fintech.
Julio Frías
Julio Frías
Julio is a partner and leads the Labor & Pensions team at CMS Carey &  Allende. He has more than ten years of experience, in which he has focused on labor litigation, collective bargaining, and dispute resolution. In addition, Julio has advised national and international companies in Chile on o including prevention of damages and strategic labour law advice to both local and international clients on a daily basis. He provides comprehensive advice to companies in various economic sectors, providing support in the hiring of personnel, the definition of special labor conditions, the structuring of compensation packages, occupational safety, the management of terminations and representation in labor litigation. The team he leads collaborates closely with the corporate and tax areas, actively participating in due diligence processes related to mergers and acquisitions.
Kateryna Chechulina
Kateryna Chechulina
Counsel in the Banking & Finance practice at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang (Kyiv)
Klaus Pateter
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.
Kostadin Sirleshtov
Kostadin Sirleshtov
Office Managing Partner of CMS Sofia, CEE Head of EPC and CEE Energy Sector Head
Krzysztof Sikora
Krzysztof Sikora
Senior Associate, Antitrust, Competition and Trade Department in Poland
Louis Glass
Louis Glass
Partner Head of TMT M&A and UK Managing Partner, Tel Aviv
Luis Alberto Liñán
Luis Alberto Liñán
Partner and head of the Dispute Resolution practice area. He specialises in litigation and local and international arbitration.
Lukas Peissl
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.
Maja Stepanović
Maja Stepanović
Maja Stepanović is a partner at CMS Belgrade who specialises in all aspects of corporate law and transactions, as well as in matters of commercial law.
Małgorzata Urbańska
Małgorzata Urbańska
Partner, Head of Antitrust, Competition and Trade Department in Poland Partner, Head of CEE Consumer Products
Manuel Ponce
Manuel Ponce
Manuel is a member of the Mining sector group for CMS Carey & Allende. His practice focuses on mining and water rights, especially in subsoil protection processes for several projects that CMS Carey & Allende advises on, through opposition suits to measurement, expiration, nullity of mining rights and the exercise of other actions contained in the Mining Code. He is in charge of the establishing mining property through exploration and exploitation concessions.
Marcell Clark
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.
Maria Orlyk
Maria Orlyk
Maria Orlyk is a Managing Partner of the office of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz in Kyiv and a Co-Head of the Energy & Climate Change PAG of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz.Maria Orlyk is a lawyer specialising in corporate/M&A, energy, competition and employment law.
Maria Rodia
Maria Rodia
Partner and Head of the CMS UK Pensions team.
Maria Delia Oxley
Maria Delia Oxley
Partner. Head of the Intellectual Property, Unfair Competition and Consumer Protection Department.
Marija Tešić
Marija Tešić is a partner at CMS Belgrade, specialising in corporate/M&A, insolvency & restructuring and capital market law and can draw on more than 14 years of experience in advising international companies in Serbia on various legal matters.
Mark Heighton
Mark Heighton
Partner Co-Head of the CMS International Real Estate Group
Martin Zuffer
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.
Matías Somarriva
Matías Somarriva
Matías is Head of the Intellectual Property Group at CMS Carey & Allende. He has over 20-years of experience in cases relating to trademarks, patents, industrial designs, litigation, copyright, and unfair competition, among other matters. He is the React partner In Chile. Endorsed in Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, Best Lawyers, and WTR 1000. Ranked among Latin America’s best anti-counterfeiting experts by World Trade Review, 2018. He was recognised with the Membership Champion Award  by International Trademark Association (INTA) for helping to grow membership, increase awareness, and promote member benefits, demonstrating his passion for trademark and related intellectual property law.
Michał Śmiechowski
Michał Śmiechowski
Counsel, Leader of the Debt Capital Markets Practice in Poland Counsel, Banking & Finance Department in Poland
Michelle Barclay
Michelle Barclay
Partner and head of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring area, cohead of Projects and International Arbitration areas. She is a dual-qualified lawyer in New York and Peru.
Miguel Mena
Miguel Mena
Partner and head of the Aviation practice area. Miguel specialises on Aviation and International Economic Law.
Miguel Viale
Miguel Viale
Partner at CMS Grau. Miguel specialises on Banking, Finance and Capital Markets, Corporate law and Mergers & Acquisitions.
Miguel Grau
Miguel Grau
Partner: Mining, Oil & Gas law and Foreign Investment.
Milica Popović
Milica Popović
Milica Popović is a partner at CMS Belgrade with extensive experience in legal work in the Balkan region. She is the Head of the CMS Banking and Finance teams in Belgrade and in Podgorica. She also heads the CMS office in Podgorica.
Milica Popović
Milica Popović
Milica Popović has been a partner at CMS Belgrade since 2013 and has more than 22 years of experience in legal work in the Balkan region. She is the Head of the CMS Banking and Finance teams in Belgrade and in Podgorica and heads the CMS office in Podgorica.
Munir Hassan
Munir Hassan
Partner Head of the CMS Energy & Climate Change Group
Murat Duman
Murat Duman
Murat specialises in competition law. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, intercompany agreements, abuse of dominance and abuse of significant market power. He is mainly involved in merger notifications at regulators such as the Dutch competition authority ACM, the Dutch Healthcare Authority NZa and the European Commission, as well as investigations by these bodies into violations of laws and regulations such as the cartel prohibition. Murat has considerable experience in healthcare and the application of competition law in this sector. He regularly advises on strategic partnerships between healthcare providers, and assists such parties with informal proceedings before the regulators.
Nedeljko Velisavljević
Nedeljko Velisavljević
Nedeljko Velisavljević is partner at CMS Belgrade who heads the CMS Dispute Resolution team for Serbia and Montenegro and is recognised as one of the leading litigation lawyers in Serbia.
Nedžida Salihović-Whalen
Nedžida Salihović-Whalen
Nedžida Salihović-Whalen is CEE partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. She has over 20 years of experience in advising clients on corporate, M&A, commercial, banking and employment matters as well as experience in dispute resolution. Nedzida is experienced in setting up corporate and business structures in Bosnia and Herzegovina and regularly advises clients on the regulatory and commercial environment under Bosnian law. She also represents clients in litigation. Nedzida has an LLM from a US university and has been continuously selected as a leading lawyer in BiH. Nedžida Salihović-Whalen was a member of several international legal working groups and took part in drafting laws regarding legal and economic reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is heavily involved in major banking and finance deals, both transactional and project-based work. Her involvement ranges from supervising the deals, to advising clients on particular aspects of the transactions. Nedzida is an examiner of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Bar Exam Commission for commercial law for the last ten years.
Nestor Shimabukuro
Nestor Shimabukuro
Partner of the public law practice area. He specialises in administrative law, electricity and regulated services.
Nikolaus Weselik
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.
Olga Belyakova
Olga Belyakova
Partner in the Commercial practice group at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang (Kyiv),Co-head of the TMC sector group in CEE
Olga Shenk
Olga Shenk
Counsel, Disputes Resolution practice Coordinator
Pabla Gainza
Pabla Gainza
Pabla is partner and leads the Real Estate & Construction practice area. She has been active in the sector for over two decades, she is a go-to practitioner for urban planning and zoning matters, development of pipelines, electric lines and other easement matters, as well as expropriation processes and regularisation of industrial plants and other real estate assets. Pabla was a part of the team that developed a Methodology for Integrated Projects for Santiago’s Inner Circle, for the World Bank’s PNUD program. She has also provided urban legal consulting for the Metropolitan SEREMI MINVU (Regional Secretariat for Urban Development Ministry of Chile), for the modification and creation of the Santiago Metropolitan Regulation Plan, on matters related to Patrimony and Public Areas. She is highly involved in the practice of contentious administrative cases, before the various State public entities, such as the Comptroller General of the Republic, SEREMI MINVU, Health Ministry Regional Secretariat’s Office, Urban Development Division, Public Works Directorate, etc. Key clients: Antofagasta Minerals (Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia (FCAB)), Banco Santander Chile S.A., Aki KB Minibogedas SpA., Banchile Inversiones S.A., Nevasa S.A. Administradora de Fondos, Unilever Chile S.A., Estée Lauder S.A.  (Cela Cosméticos S.A.)
Pamela Coulthard
Pamela Coulthard
Pamela is a senior associate based in our Glasgow office. She advises on all aspects of environmental regulatory compliance and enforcement including waste management, pollution prevention and control issues, and contaminated land. Pamela also regularly provides transactional support to our corporate and property departments. Pamela spent a year on secondment to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency where she advised on all aspects of environmental regulation and enforcement as well as being heavily involved with the training of the new environmental specialist procurator fiscals.
Paul Smith
Paul Smith
Partner Head of the CMS Energy, Projects and Construction Group
Peter Huber
Peter Huber is head of the International Corporate Transactions team of CMS Austria. He looks back on more than 25 years of professional experience in corporate transactions, including more than four years with major investment banks. His main areas of practice are M&A (including privatisations and public takeovers) and corporate law (including corporate governance) in Austria as well as Central and Eastern Europe. Peter Huber advises a range of major Austrian corporations and major shareholders as well as groups of shareholders on corporate transactions, restructurings, shareholders’ agreements and governance structures, including advice on legal issues resulting from shareholder activism. He also advises major private equity houses on investments and exits.
Radivoje Petrikić
Radivoje Petrikić
CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz since 1999 (partner since 2004); managing partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hasche Sigle in Serbia (2000); counsel of the Serbian Ministry of International Economic Relations; court interpreter for Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian.  
Radivoje Petrikić
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
Rafał Zwierz
Rafał Zwierz
Partner heading Corporate/M&A department and Capital Markets practice at CMS Poland
Ramón Huapaya
Ramón Huapaya
Partner and head of the public law practice area. He specialises in adminsitrative law, telecom, electricity and regulated services.
Ramón Valdivieso
Ramón Valdivieso
Ramón is co-head of the Corporate/M&A practice area and leads the Technology, Media & Communications team. His practice focuses on corporate; capital markets & finance; M&A and private equity transactions, both in Chile as well as in other Latin American countries, where he has played a major part in the international expansion of various Chilean companies. In capital markets, Ramón advises issuing companies and investment banks in the issuance, registration, and placement of securities, assisting companies that enter into this market on all essential matters, ensuring transparency and timeliness in the information to the market, and continual improvement of corporate governance, securing future access to the market as a source of financing.  In this regard, Ramón has lead various public tender offers (OPA), including non-solicited takeover bids. Ramón is a well-known expert in sectors related to telecommunications and information technologies. Key clients:  Sonda S.A, Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS), Bupa S.A., Salfacorp S.A., Karün, American Tower Corp., Besalco S.A., KKR Investment Fund.
Robert Keisler
Robert Keisler
Robert Keisler is a partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and a member of the Public Procurement Law, Competition Law and Public Law Team. His areas of expertise include advising and representing contractors and principals from a wide variety of industries, both nationally and internationally, in the areas of public procurement law and regulatory law. He also has many years of experience in various areas of competition law, including merger control and antitrust law.
Robert Stephen
Robert Stephen
Partner Patent Attorney, Co-Chair Life Sciences & Healthcare Sector
Rodrigo Campero
Rodrigo Campero
Rodrigo is partner and leads Dispute Resolution and Compliance practice groups for CMS Carey & Allende. His practice focuses primarily on civil, criminal, and commercial litigation. He also advises on the design of compliance programs, mainly so as to avoid non-compliance and to minimize legal repercussions, should they occur. Key clients: Agrícola Pacífico Sur, Nol-Tec Ingeniería Limitada, Werco Trade AG, American Tower, Virbac-Centrovet, Derco Chile and Sun Dreams.  
Rolando Cevasco
Rolando Cevasco
Partner and head of the Tax practice area. Rolando specialises in tax, foreign investment and tax litigation.
Roxana Fratila
Roxana Fratila
Partner, Head of Real Estate and Construction in Romania
Sam De Silva
Sam De Silva
Partner Co-Head of the Commercial Practice Group
Sarah Hanson
Sarah Hanson
Partner Co-Head of the CMS Life Sciences & Healthcare Group
Sibylle Novak
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.
Sławomir Czerwiński
Sławomir Czerwiński
Partner in the Corporate/M&A Department and Lead Partner in the Private Equity practice
Stefan Paulmayer
Stefan Paulmayer
Stefan Paulmayer is an attorney-at-law for banking and finance law, specialising in financing, asset-backed financing (securitisation), restructuring/insolvency law, derivative transactions and (banking) supervisory law. As an expert in banking and finance, he has advised on both large (real estate) financing and large (cross-border) restructuring transactions. Another focus of his previous work is the area of bank restructuring and settlement. Most recently, he focused on the area of New Technologies such as SmartContracts and Blockchain where he is active as both legal advisor of FinTech companies as well as lecturer. Stefan Paulmayer has more than eleven years of professional experience.
Steven Williams
Steven Williams
Partner Co-head of the Infrastructure, Construction and Energy Disputes Group Lawyer
Steven Wise
Steven Wise
Managing Partner, Hong Kong Rotary Public, Hong Kong
Thomas Page
Thomas Page
Partner Head of the CMS Hotels & Leisure Group
Thomas Hamerl
Thomas Hamerl
Thomas Hamerl is an attorney-at-law for infrastructure projects & public private partnerships and a leading expert in public procurement law as well as real estate & construction. He is a specialist for national and international construction projects, infrastructure and public private partnerships as well as energy projects. He has particular expertise in national and international construction contract law, public procurement law including concessions, infrastructure-oriented dispute resolution including litigation and arbitration, real estate and energy law. Thomas Hamerl has experience in infrastructure projects for roads, railways, airports, hospitals, schools, waste collection and disposal, site remediation, power plants (PV, wind, biomass, water). He has been working as a legal consultant for around 20 years and joined CMS in 2009. He brings to the consulting practice his experience as in-house counsel of an international construction group, where he was head of the legal department in Vienna and head of the group-wide “Legal Practice Group PPP”. Prior to that, he worked for renowned Viennese law firms in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe as well as for the European Commission in Brussels.
Tom Scourfield
Tom Scourfield
Partner Co-Head of the international IP Group and UK Chair of the Consumer Products Sector Group
Varinia Radu
Varinia Radu
Partner, Head of Energy, Projects and Environment Romania, CEE Deputy Head of Energy, Projects & Construction Sector Group
Victor Farro
Victor Farro
Partner at CMS Grau’s Bankruptcy & Insolvency practice.
Vitaliy Radchenko
Vitaliy Radchenko
Partner, Head of Energy & Projects at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang (Kyiv)
Vito Verna
Vito Verna
Partner and head of the Environmental Law practice group. Vito specializes in the prevention of environmental contingencies, management, Environmental Policy and Regulations as well as Social Conflicts related to Environmental matters.
Walter Gapp
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).
Will Dibble
Will Dibble
Partner | Co-head of the Finance Practice Group
Yessica Manzur
Yessica Manzur
Yessica co-heads the Tax practice and is an expert in international taxation.

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