Bio

I am an international M&A/corporate lawyer working on corporate finance, private equity and capital market law. Most of the transactions I lead are cross-border and multi-jurisdictional. I am the Managing Partner of Fieldfisher Austria. I specialise in the field of complex, cross-border corporate issues and M&A transactions, leading international teams from various jurisdictions and legal areas. I do inbound and outbound international work and am able to refer to our teams abroad. My sectoral knowledge comprises industrials as well as the pharmaceutical/direct sales sector. I have an extensive network in the CEE/SEE region. I work intensively for clients in the private equity and financial services sector – a sector on which I focus in my published works and as a speaker at international conferences. I am also admitted as solicitor in England and Wales and work as part-time visiting professor at the University of Vienna, the University of Klagenfurt, University of Santa Clara/Summer Programme and the University of Liechtenstein (LLM programme) professorship for private and business law. Further, I am author and publisher of numerous publications in corporate and commercial law journals and of various market-known law books regarding corporate and financial markets law, which are the main areas of my legal interests. I am the publisher of “Der Konzern im Gesellschafts- und Steuerrecht” (Linde Verlag), one of the standard law books in Austria in the field of corporate and tax law and used broadly by practitioners and in-house legal teams in the banking and financial services sector.