BINDER GRÖSSWANG Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Managing Partners: Stefan Tiefenthaler, Florian Khol

Number of partners: 26

Number of lawyers: 100

Languages: German, Croatian, Czech, English, French, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish

Firm Overview:

Binder Grösswang’s successful strategy is based on outstanding professional expertise combined with a teamwork approach. More than 100 highly specialised legal experts work together in teams to give the firm’s clients outstanding support. The firm has gained an excellent reputation for its sophisticated and business-oriented approach and individually tailored solutions. Its legal experts are widely connected and rank amongst the best in their various practice areas. The firm has ranked among Austria’s leading law firms for more than 60 years. Today it is one of the largest law firms in Austria and advises major Austrian and international corporations and financial institutions. The firm strives to meet market expectations by identifying tomorrow’s legal challenges, working with optimum efficiency and offering competitive prices, without compromising highest quality and full loyalty.

Main Areas of Practice:

Banking & Finance

Capital Markets

EU & Competition

Corporate/M&A

Data Protection

Digital Law

Dispute Resolution

Employment

Intellectual Property and Information Technology

Restructuring & Insolvency

Private Clients

Real Estate

Regulatory

Tax

White-Collar Crime

Banking & Finance:

Lending, acquisition finance, structured finance, real estate, project and asset finance, securitisation, cash pooling, restructuring and insolvency, derivatives, bank and financial services regulation, investment funds.

Contacts: Stephan Heckenthaler, Stefan Tiefenthaler, Emanuel Welten, Stefan Frank

Capital Markets:

IPOs, SPOs, corporate bonds, debt issuance programmes, other equity and debt issuances, general meetings, boardroom advice, issuers’ corporate governance and compliance, disclosure, public takeovers.

Contacts: Stephan Heckenthaler, Florian Khol, Stefan Frank

EU & Competition:

Merger clearance, abuse of market power, damage recovery and defence, cooperation agreements, distribution agreements, compliance, state aid, public procurement (Austrian and EU law).

Contacts: Johannes Barbist, Christine Dietz, Raoul Hoffer

Corporate, M&A:

National and cross-border share and asset deals, auctions, reorganisations corporate housekeeping, proxy contests, boardroom advice, private trusts, venture capital, leveraged and management buy-outs, privatisations, distressed M&A and reorganisations, joint ventures, voting agreements.

Contacts: Gottfried Gassner, Andreas Hable, Florian Khol, Michael Kutschera, Thomas Schirmer, Christian Zwick, Philipp Kapl

Data Protection:

All legally relevant areas relating to data protection compliance and support them in the development and implementation of corresponding (internal) data protection concepts, as well as in all data-protection-relevant aspects of marketing measures, customer communications and the introduction of new products and technologies.

Contacts: Angelika Pallwein-Prettner, Ivo Rungg

Digital Law:

Data protection, IP, contract law, public law, fiscal law, employment law, M&A, corporate, regulatory, finance, dispute resolution, real estate and cartel law.

Contacts: Stephan Heckenthaler, Raoul Hoffer, Christian Klausegger, Angelika Pallwein-Prettner, Ivo Rungg, Christian Wimpissinger

Dispute Resolution:

Domestic and international litigation and arbitration, recovery of assets and other enforcement, alternative dispute resolution, forensic investigations.

Contacts: Stefan Albiez, Ingeborg Edel, Christian Klausegger, Michael Kutschera

Employment:

Employment and executive contracts, national and international restructurings, relocations, reductions and transfers of workforce, business closures, employment litigation, constitutional labour law, unions and works councils, data protection law.

Contacts: Horst Lukanec, Angelika Pallwein-Prettner

Restructuring & Insolvency:

Out-of-court restructurings and insolvency proceedings, reorganisations and enforcement of security interests, crossborder insolvencies, capital maintenance, non-performing loan portfolios.

Contacts: Gottfried Gassner, Emanuel Welten, Georg Wabl

Private Clients:

Succession, foundations, investments, acquisition of luxury goods, legal advice on property administration, real estate, change of residence, philanthropy.

Contacts: Andreas Hable

Real Estate:

Real estate transactions, asset management, analysis and restructuring of portfolios

Contacts: Markus Uitz

Regulatory:

Administrative proceedings, market entry support, authorisations, industrial and other permits, public law compliance, sector regulation and other regulatory regimes.

Contact: Johannes Barbist

Tax:

Tax analysis and structuring of M&A transactions, reorganisations, financing and capital market transactions, fund structures, expatriates, employee participation programmes and stock option schemes, private trusts and wealth succession, proceedings before tax authorities and courts, criminal tax law.

Contacts: Christian Wimpissinger, Andreas Hable, Clemens Willvonseder

Intellectual Property & Information Technology:

Advertising, media, e-commerce and domain law, direct marketing, trademarks, patents, copyrights and designs, product piracy, IP licence, transfer and purchase agreements, IT and software contracts, co-operation and delimitation agreements, contentious and non-contentious work, data protection.

Contact: Ivo Rungg

International Work:

The majority of the firm’s assignments are transnational. By working in cooperation with a global network of top-flight partner firms and selecting those local experts best qualified for the matter at hand in each particular case, Binder Grösswang is able to provide flexible, customised solutions in all major jurisdictions. Binder Grösswang is a reliable partner for international law firms whenever Austrian law issues are relevant in cross-border transactions.