Christian Herbst
Europe Guide 2024
Star Individuals : Corporate/M&A
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About
Provided by Christian Herbst
Practice Areas
corporate & reorganisations, mergers & acquisitions, takeovers, arbitration, corporate finance
Career
Christian Herbst, Dr.iur., LL.M. (Harvard), has more than 30 years of professional experience. He has been a partner at Schoenherr since 1990. Christian’s main areas of practice are m&a, public takeovers, private equity and corporate finance transactions. Christian enjoys an excellent reputation in representing international and Austrian blue-chip corporations in (cross-border) transactional work. Christian's transactional advisory has covered a wide range of economic sectors and industries, including financial services, energy and telecoms. Christian graduated from Salzburg University (Dr. iur. 1982), the School of Advanced International Studies, JHU-Bologna (Diploma 1983), and Harvard Law School (LL.M. 1984). Christian is an international business transactions lecturer at the University for Economics and Business in Vienna, has published on issues relating to m&a, takeovers and merger control, and is a speaker at various legal seminars and conferences.
Professional Memberships
IBA (Co-chair of the IBA Corporate/M&A law committee, 2015-2016)
UIA
Publications
Getting the Deal through: Private M&A 2021 ICLG The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Mergers & Acquisitions 2021
Refinitiv/Reuters: Public mergers and acquisitions in Austria 2021
Personal
Harvard University (LL.M. 1984)
Johns Hopkins University, Bologna/Italy (Diploma 1983)
University of Salzburg (Dr. iur. 1982)
Chambers Review
Europe
Star individual Christian Herbst is widely considered a pioneering figure in the Austrian market. He boasts strength in public takeovers and acquisitions in the healthcare and real estate sectors.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Christian is a very entrepreneurial lawyer."
"A knowledgeable, very experienced and smart person."
"Christian is a very entrepreneurial lawyer."
"A knowledgeable, very experienced and smart person."