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Thomas Trettnak

CERHA HEMPEL

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Austria
New York
Practice Areas:
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
German
English
French
Spanish
Biography

Thomas Trettnak is a long-standing and key partner in our firm’s M&A practice. He is concentrating in mergers & acquisitions and corporate reorganizations with a special focus on insolvency & restructuring as well as venture capital and private equity mandates across the CEE region.

In 2007/2008, Thomas worked in-house in M&A for STRABAG SE, a listed construction company, and made partner in 2010. He is particularly renowned for cross-border transactions, often for Anglo-Saxon clients in view of his admission to the New York Bar.

He heads the firm’s CEE Practice Group in M&A & Restructuring and integrates our CEE network in a number of cross-border M&A deals as well as restructurings.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Advise to the French investment fund OMNES Capital, a large cap French investment that acquired a stake in CCE Holding, a merger of two photovoltaic specialists from Germany and Austria.This is one of the largest PV (photovoltaic) deals in Austria and CEE with approx. EUR 200 MIO of deal volume.
  • Advise to HeldYn on securing financing through the Weilburg Family Office
  • Advise to prominent creditor groups in the largest insolvency of Austria ever, the multi-billion SIGNA Holding and SIGNA Prime insolvencies
Association memberships
  • Vienna Bar Association
  • International Bar Association
  • New York Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
Academic qualifications
  • University of Graz (Mag. iur. 1999, Dr. iur. 2003)
  • Kellogg School of Management, Certificate in Management (2001)
  • Northwestern University School of Law (LL.M. 2001)
  • Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid (1998-1999)
Address:
Vienna
Tel:+43 1 514 35 531 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.cerhahempel.com