Austria

CERHA HEMPEL is one of Austria’s leading corporate law firms, with an integrated Central and Eastern European practice. With a team of over 200 lawyers, CERHA HEMPEL offers clients expertise and experience in all areas of corporate and commercial law in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe. Comprehensive specialist knowledge and hard work, but also an understanding of the client’s business environment are pre-conditions for CERHA HEMPEL. The organisational structure links up core teams with specialists, allowing to deliver top-notch advice and first-class service to clients. CERHA HEMPEL can look back on a successful track record. Over the past 20 years CERHA HEMPEL has played a leading role in virtually all significant transactions in Austria. This distinguishes CERHA HEMPEL as one of the leading law firms in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, privatisations, financings, real estate, litigation & arbitration. The expertise – combined with years of experience in Central and Eastern Europe and the Lex Mundi network – ensures that clients receive high-quality, intellectually rigorous advice, across disciplines and across borders.

Today, CERHA HEMPEL has offices in Bratislava, Budapest, Bucharest, Prague, Sofia, Ljubljana and Vienna. In addition, CERHA HEMPEL has close relations with leading law firms in jurisdictions where they do not have their own offices. The CERHA HEMPEL offices in Central and Eastern Europe primarily specialise in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial law, banking and finance, and real estate and project development. All of CERHA HEMPEL’s Central and Eastern European offices have continuous access to the resources and skills of the entire CERHA HEMPEL network.

Schoenherr is a leading full-service law firm in Central and Eastern Europe. About 300 professionals service national and international clients from our offices in Austria, Belgium/EU, and throughout the entire CEE region. Operating in a rapidly evolving environment, we are a dynamic and innovative firm with an effective blend of experienced lawyers and young talent. As one of the first international law firms to move into CEE, we have grown to be one of the largest firms in the region. Our offices and country desks provide comprehensive coverage of CEE, allowing us to offer solutions that perfectly fit the given industry, jurisdiction and company.

*Schoenherr has offices, country desks and permanent cooperation partners in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine. Schoenherr is in compliance with the respective local legal standards and conduct rules in all countries where it is active; therefore, the local firm name may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

A leading law firm in CEE/SEE focussed on international business law. The complex markets of the region require specialist knowledge and contacts – and the firm has plenty of both. Through its network of offices, Wolf Theiss combines business acumen and an understanding of the local culture to develop and execute solid business strategies while solving problems and creating opportunities. In addition to offices in 13 CEE/SEE countries and a central European hub in Brussels, the firm has Regional Desks covering Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia, as well as a China Desk assisting Chinese clients with their projects in CEE/SEE.

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 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.

Fellner Wratzfeld & Partners (fwp) is one of Austria’s leading business law firms, offering with its 70 lawyers full legal services to its clients. The firm’s clients include leading banks and other financial institutions, privately and publicly owned companies, industrial manufacturers and public sector authorities. The firm’s expertise covers the full spectrum of industry sectors.

fwp’s approach to providing legal services places particular emphasis on combining in-depth legal expertise and well-founded business knowledge with an entrepreneurial focus to meet client needs. In addition to their legal expertise, the firm’s lawyers have either supplementary degrees in economics, complementary professional experience or have studied or worked abroad.

fwp has an established international practice and handles on an on-going basis major cross-border matters.

Three generations of lawyers who bring an international reputation and a fresh edge to the table with the aim of providing clarity in all areas of business law.

This is DORDA.

Our credo:

• Clear guidance
• Proactive advice
• Short reaction times

We pursue a holistic advisory approach and support Austrian companies, international groups, and start-ups in their entrepreneurial development and in challenging situations. Our award-winning experts provide support in all matters of business law.
Strong companies put their trust in us. For more than 45 years.

Dedicated Industry Groups
DORDA’s interdisciplinary industry groups (link) are our answer to increasingly complex markets: concentrated knowledge and strong industry affinity. Interdisciplinary legal advice from a single point of contact.

Practice Areas
DORDA’s practice areas give clients access to team specialization in 25 fields of law. A proven track record is the result of decades of work with renowned clients in an international environment.

women@DORDA
Successful pioneering work: mentoring for women in business law.
Equality between women and men has been a stated goal at DORDA for many years. The initiative women@DORDA has won numerous international awards since it was founded in 2016 and promotes women within the firm through targeted mentoring measures.

Management
DORDA's success story has been led by the partner trio Francine Brogyanyi, Axel Anderl and Martin Brodey for three years now.

DORDA stands for clarity.
Our promise is to provide clarity. By thinking ahead and responsibly examining a wide range of options, we provide clarity in an increasingly complex economic world.
We see ourselves as guides. In good times and difficult times. With an interdisciplinary, proactive approach that enables us to see the big picture our goal is to provide our clients with maximum room to maneuver. By providing strategic advice that goes beyond pure technical expertise, clients receive customized solutions for their business strategy or in crisis situations.

Bespoke Legal Solutions – made to measure instead of one-size-fits-all. This is how, since 1994, we have added value for our clients and devised solutions for complex legal needs. We combine legal acumen, international experience and innovative thinking.

SAXINGER has established its German-language alliance of European commercial law firms with offices in Central/Eastern Europe and Asia/Pacific. Together with our international colleagues, more than 230 lawyers are active today at 26 locations in 13 countries. In Austria we have offices in Linz, Vienna, Wels, Graz and Salzburg.

Our Clients are SMEs and major corporations from the private and public sector, multinational companies and public law entities.

In independent ratings of renowned industry publications, SAXINGER regularly ranks among the top 10 corporate law firms in Austria and the CEE region in numerous fields of law.

We are a banking & finance boutique law firm based in Vienna, Austria, and specialize in advising clients on domestic and international finance, with a particular focus on all aspects of banking law, including finance, financial regulation, capital markets law as well as mergers & acquisitions.

Pelzmann Gall Größ Rechtsanwälte GmbH (EY Law) is an independent law firm and at the same time part of the global network of EY Law. With more than 2,400 lawyers in over 90 countries, EY Law combines practical legal advice with specific industry experience. In addition to innovative services and technologies in a variety of disciplines, we also use our global network specifically for our clients. Last but not least, we attach great importance to personal advice, even in a digital world. You will therefore find our team at four locations in Austria.

TAIYO Legal is your independent advisor in all business law matters. The main focus is on banking and finance on one hand and cross-border transactions between Central Europe and East Asia on the other.

TAIYO Legal’s expertise covers the advisory of European as well as Japanese financial service providers in different areas of banking and finance law. At the same time, we are the leading law firm in the advisory of Japanese clients with their business in Austria and European clients with their business with Japanese business partners.