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Martin Ebner

Schoenherr

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Market leader
Bar Admissions:
Austria
Practice Areas:
Banking
Financial restructuring
Capital markets : Debt
Capital markets : Structured finance and securitisation
Capital markets : Derivatives
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Banking
Energy
Financial services
Real estate
Languages:
English
German
Biography

Martin Ebner is a partner at Schoenherr, where he is a member of the banking, finance & capital markets practice. Martin specialises in derivatives and structured finance, (corporate) finance, debt restructurings and refinancings, loan sales, as well as limitedrecourse (project and acquisition) finance. Martin, a member of the Vienna bar, graduated from the University of Salzburg (Mag.iur. 1995) and thereafter earned a post-graduate degree from Pallas Consortium (LL.M. 1997).

Martin represents arrangers and lenders active in the region as well as borrowers/issuers in transactional work in Austria and CEE. He has a proven track record in respect of many different transactions in bank portfolios (true sales and synthetics). In addition, Martin is Austrian counsel to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), FIA (previously Futures and Options Association (FOA)), the Section on Banks and Insurance Companies of the Austrian trade association (Wirtschaftskammer Österreich), the Bundesverband deutscher Banken e.V. and the British Bankers' Association on derivatives matters (close-out netting), and also advises numerous banks on derivatives transactions (including collateral structures) with Austrian and Central European counterparties.

Key practice areas
  • Banking
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Project finance
  • Securitisation
  • Structured finance/securitisation
Academic qualifications
  • LLM, Pallas Consortium - Nijmegen/Netherlands, 1997
  • Mag. iur., University of Salzburg - Austria, 1995
Bar admissions
  • Vienna Bar Association