Michael Hecht

Michael Hecht is partner who specialises in infrastructure and real estate & construction, environmental law & planning law, Public law & public procurement and Public sector and public law. He regularly speaks on aspects of construction, environmental, infrastructure and procurement law; furthermore, he is a lecturer at the University of Vienna and specialist speaker at the Vienna University of Technology, the author of numerous specialist publications with a focus on planning law, and of studies commissioned by ministries as well as other public-sector entities.

• Advising the Vienna Health Fund (Wiener Gesundheitsfonds) in proceedings before the Vienna Administrative Court concerning the implementation of a bowel cancer screening programme. The advice included legal aspects of public health administration and procurement law.
• Advising wohnfonds wien, the company founded to provide land for state-subsidised housing construction, on the preparation of a legal "roadmap" for the development of the Rothneusiedl urban expansion area, which is one of the largest urban development projects currently ongoing in Austria In particular we are advising with regard to the planning and development of the area as well as in connection with the distribution of the property areas to individual developers and the drafting of the relevant contracts.
• Advising the Austrian public railway group ÖBB on the Brenner North Access, a cross-border railway expansion to improve connectivity between Austria and Italy. The advice included the Austrian approval process and complex regulatory coordination under the ESPOO procedure.
• Advising ARGE Oberes Hausfeld, a consortium of developers, on the legal structuring and implementation of a 23-hectare urban development in Vienna’s Donaustadt district. The advice covers the entire project lifecycle, including EIA procedures, zoning deviations, stakeholder agreements, and approval issues related to the delayed Lobau Tunnel.

• PPP/PFI
• Project development

• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services
• Energy
• Healthcare
• Industrials
• Natural resources
• Real estate
• Social infrastructure
• Technology and telecommunications
• Transport

• Dr iur, University of Vienna, 1995

• International Bar Association (IBA)
• Association of European Lawyers (AEL)

• Austria, 1999