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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Market leader
Bar Admissions:
Austria
Practice Areas:
Banking
Financial restructuring
Financial services regulatory
Restructuring and insolvency
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Banking
Financial services
Languages:
German
English
Italian
Biography

Markus Fellner is a founding partner of Fellner Wratzfeld & Partners and a leading expert in banking and finance, corporate/M&A, insolvency and restructuring, as well as related dispute resolution. With dual degrees in law and economics, he combines legal precision with commercial insight and regularly lectures on these topics at renowned institutions.

Recent matter/case highlights
  • Advising the financing banks and around 50 promissory note loan creditors on the complex restructuring of Pierer Industries AG and the financial recovery of the Pierer/KTM Group.
  • Advising Montana Tech Components AG (MTC) on its financial restructuring/refinancing, including the sale of shares in VARTA AG (a division of MTC specializing in battery solutions).
  • Advising Kommunalkredit Austria AG on the acquisition of an 80% majority stake in Kommunalkredit by the Swedish private equity investor Altor.
  • Advising on the refinancing of Kaufhaus Tyrol, one of Austria’s major shopping centres, including the legal structuring and implementation of the transaction.
  • Advising SORAVIA on the entry of a strategic investor, including the negotiation and implementation of the participation structure.
Key practice areas
  • Banking
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • M&A
  • Real estate finance
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Securitisation
  • Structured finance/securitisation
Sector expertise
  • Accounting
  • Banking
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Real estate

Academic qualifications
  • Dr iur, University of Vienna, (1994)
Association/network memberships
  • International Bar Association (IBA)
  • Association of European Lawyers (AEL)
Bar admissions
  • Austria, 1989
Address:
Schottenring 12
Vienna, Vienna, 1010
Austria
Tel:+43 153 770 311 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.fwp.at/en/lawyer/markus-fellner/