Peter Huber
Europe Guide 2024
Band 2 : Corporate/M&A
About
Provided by Peter Huber
Practice Areas
Peter Huber is is partner and Head of the CMS Austria International Transaction Team and has decades of professional experience in the field of corporate transactions, including more than four years with leading investment banks. His areas of expertise are M&A (including privatisations and public takeovers) and corporate law (including corporate governance) in Austria as well as in Central and Eastern Europe.
Professional Memberships
Austrian Bar Association
International Bar Association.
Publications
Commentary on Takeover Law, Peter Huber (ed.), (2016)
Thoughts regarding the corporate action, GesRZ 2010, pp. 13 seq.
Thoughts regarding the restructuring privilege in the Austrian Takeover Law, Bernhard Hainz and Heinz Krejci (eds.), Anniversary publication on the occasion of Johannes Reich-Rohrwig’s 60th Birthday (2014)
International Business Acquisitions: Major Legal Issues and Due Diligence, Michael Whalley and Ralf Kurney (eds.), 4th Edition (2014)
The European Stock Corporation in Slovakia, Dirk Jannott and Jürgen Frodermann (eds.), Handbook of the European Stock Corporation – Societas Europaea, 2nd edition (2014) (with Peter Simo and Michal Kmec)
Commentary [Entscheidungsanmerkung] on the Supreme Court [OGH] 13 March 2014, 6 Ob 37/14f, GesRZ 2014, pp. 257 seq.
Commentary [Entscheidungsanmerkung] on the Supreme Court [OGH] 9 September 2015, 6 Ob 97/15f, GesRZ 2015, pp 401 seq.
Chambers Review
Europe
Peter Huber is well regarded for his expertise in cross-border acquisitions and dispositions. In addition, he assists clients with corporate issues and share dispositions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He gives high-level reasoning and is nearly always reachable."
"He gives high-level reasoning and is nearly always reachable."