Christian Herbst

Practice Areas

corporate & reorganisations, mergers & acquisitions, takeovers, arbitration, corporate finance

Career

Christian Herbst, Dr.iur., LL.M. (Harvard), has more than 35 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. He 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)