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Key contacts
Managing Partner: Dr. Uwe Rautner
Key practice areas
Banking and finance
Capital markets
Capital markets : Debt
Capital markets : Equity
Financial and corporate
Firm overview

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.

Quick facts
  • Banking & Finance Boutique Law Firm
  • Highly Specialized Team
  • High Profile/Benchmark Transactions
  • Number of lawyers: 5
  • Network memberships: 1
  • Languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Key transactional practices
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Derivatives
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • Capital markets: High yield
  • CLO/CDO
  • Covered bonds
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Investment funds
  • M&A
  • PPP/PFI
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Securitisation
  • Structured finance/securitisation
  • Trade finance
Address:
Schulerstraße 7
1010 Vienna
Tel:+43 1 361 1361 Fax:+43 1 361 1361-99 Email:Contact Us Web Address:http://www.rautner.com/en/
Rankings published in 2026
Banking and finance
Tier 5
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Tier 5

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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Rautner is an independent commercial law-focused boutique based in Vienna.

Focusses / specialisms

The firm focuses on banking and finance work. 

The firm provides advice across the full spectrum of financial services including syndicated lending, project/ real estate finance, restructuring, insolvency, financial services regulatory work.

Key clients

Key recent clients include Banco Santander, UniCredit, Erste Bank, WEB Windenergie and BNP Paribas

 Research period review: 33rd edition (2024/2025) 

In banking and finance, the firm advised a range of financial service institutions and project developers on loans and offered general legal and regulatory guidance in the execution of transactions. 

Research period review: 33rd edition (2023/2024)

During the research period, the firm was active in banking and finance, and equity capital markets.

In banking and finance the firm worked on loans and financings for clients in the power generation and financial services sectors.

In equity capital markets the firm worked on secondary share offerings for clients connected with the financial services sector.

Deal highlights: 33rd edition (2023/2024)

KIC InnoEnergy €3.9 million loan

 

Client Feedback: 33rd edition (2023/2024)

Banking and finance

Rautner are always cost-efficient, commercially minded and increasingly know what truly matters to the client – very highly recommended.”

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Deal Highlights
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Deal Name Deal Date Firm Name Jurisdiction Deal Type Lawyer Names Client Names Client Role
Erste Group Bank AG - Bond Issue
2021-01-01
Rautner
Austria
Bond issue
Société Générale, Erste Group Bank AG
Underwriter
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