Specialisations

Insolvency Law

  • Legal advice in situations of financial crisis, including but not limited to questions of liability of managing directors, the duty to petition for bankruptcy and transactions in a crisis
  • Legal advice related to issues of preservation of capital, liability of corporate bodies and challenges
  • Acting as legal counsel during insolvency opening proceedings
  • Acting as legal counsel in reorganisation, through court or out of court
  • Acting as legal counsel for debtors in insolvency proceedings
  • Handling insolvency proceedings as insolvency administrators
  • Legal advice with regard to purchases of assets out of an insolvent’s estate
  • Acting as legal counsel for creditors in and prior to insolvency proceedings
  • Advice on types of legal entities
  • Formation of business entities
  • Drafting of shareholder agreements
  • M&A transactions including acquisition and sale of companies, operations and assets
  • Corporate restructuring (contributions, spin-offs, mergers)
  • Preparing and providing support in shareholders’ meetings
  • Advising corporate bodies (executive boards, supervisory boards, managing directors)
  • Advice in the case of shareholder disputes
  • Liquidations

Corporate Law, M&A

  • Advice on types of legal entities
  • Formation of business entities
  • Drafting of shareholder agreements
  • M&A transactions including acquisition and sale of companies, operations and assets
  • Corporate restructuring (contributions, spin-offs, mergers)
  • Preparing and providing support in shareholders’ meetings
  • Advising corporate bodies (executive boards, supervisory boards, managing directors)
  • Advice in the case of shareholder disputes
  • Liquidations

Drafting Contracts for Entrepreneurs

  • Negotiating contracts for entrepreneurs
  • Reviewing and drafting of contracts in business transactions such as:
    • – General terms and conditions
    • – Distribution agreements for commercial agents, authorised dealers etc.
    • – Licence agreements and cooperation agreements
    • – Letters of intent / non-disclosure agreements
  • Drafting and reviewing of purchase offers
  • Execution and registration of purchase contracts including acting as escrow agent
  • Execution and registration of contracts of donation
  • Execution and handling of developer contracts
  • Legal support in developing and implementing projects
  • Execution of tenancy and lease agreements
  • Acting as legal counsel in disputes regarding tenancy and lease matters
  • Advice and acting as legal counsel for communities of condominium owners and facility managers

Real Estate Law

  • Drafting and reviewing of purchase offers
  • Execution and registration of purchase contracts including acting as escrow agent
  • Execution and registration of contracts of donation
  • Execution and handling of developer contracts
  • Legal support in developing and implementing projects
  • Execution of tenancy and lease agreements
  • Acting as legal counsel in disputes regarding tenancy and lease matters
  • Advice and acting as legal counsel for communities of condominium owners and facility managers

Building Law

  • Supporting different interest groups (builder-owners, construction companies, planners and local construction supervisors) in the enforcement/defence of civil-law claims (e.g. building defects)
  • Support with claim management
  • Legal advice/acting as legal counsel in public-law building proceedings (e.g. proceedings for obtaining building permits or for claiming rights of a subject vis-à-vis the government or a public law entity (e.g. as a neighbour))
  • Advice and acting as legal counsel for tenderers in the submission process
  • Advice and acting as legal counsel for tenderers in public procurement procedures
  • Advice and acting as legal counsel for tenderers when lodging appeals
  • Preparing legal opinions with regard to public procurement law

Public Procurement Law

  • Advice and acting as legal counsel for tenderers in the submission process
  • Advice and acting as legal counsel for tenderers in public procurement procedures
  • Advice and acting as legal counsel for tenderers when lodging appeals
  • Preparing legal opinions with regard to public procurement law

Litigation

  • Acting as legal counsel in civil proceedings (detailed preparation of the facts and circumstances plus legal analysis)
  • Acting as legal counsel in (national and international) arbitration proceedings
  • Acting as legal counsel with regard to business offences
  • Acting as legal counsel in tax proceedings and tax offence proceedings
  • Asserting claims in and out of court
  • Enforcement of court judgments including initiating enforcement measures
  • Drafting of acknowledgements of debt and instalment arrangements
  • Lodging of claims in insolvency proceedings

Collection of Accounts Receivable

  • Asserting claims in and out of court
  • Enforcement of court judgments including initiating enforcement measures
  • Drafting of acknowledgements of debt and instalment arrangements
  • Lodging of claims in insolvency proceedings

Law of Succession

  • Transfers of assets within the family
  • Advice to prevent financial conflicts upon death
  • Drafting of last wills and testaments including registration in the Austrian Central Register of Last Wills and Testaments
  • Drafting of disclaimers of inheritance
  • Advice and acting as counsel in succession-law disputes
  • Registration of national and international trademarks
  • Support in proceedings related to trademarks, such as, e.g. appeals
  • Drafting of trademark delimitation agreements
  • Legal support in claiming trademark rights
  • Drafting and review of licence agreements in connection with proprietary rights
  • Advice in connection with works protected by copyright
  • Enforcement and defence of copyright claims

Intellectual Property

  • Registration of national and international trademarks
  • Support in proceedings related to trademarks, such as, e.g. appeals
  • Drafting of trademark delimitation agreements
  • Legal support in claiming trademark rights
  • Drafting and review of licence agreements in connection with proprietary rights
  • Advice in connection with works protected by copyright
  • Enforcement and defence of copyright claims

Transport Law

  • Acting as legal counsel with regard to damage claims in and out of court
  • (National and international) railway law
  • Forwarding law