Michael Barnert


Mag.iur. (Vienna 1993)
Piano studies
(Vienna Conservatory 1989 - 1995)
LL.M. (Bruges 1996)
Dr.iur. (Vienna 2000)
Admittance to the Vienna bar
(Vienna 2000)
Michael Barnert

- M & A
- Corporate Law
- Civil and Commercial Law
- Energy
Publications in the areas of corporate law and competition law
Lectures in the areas of corporate law and M&A
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (formerly Heller Löber Bahn & Partner and Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Löber; Vienna and Bruges 1997 - 2003)
Internship with Kavanagh, Peters, Powell & Osnato (New York 1992)
Josip Djordjevic


Josip Djordjevic

– M & A
– Corporate Law
– Civil and Commercial Law
Wess Kux Kispert & Eckert Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Vienna 2024-2025, student trainee)
Clemens Egermann


Mag.iur. (Vienna 1998)
Dr.iur. (Vienna 1999)
Hon. Prof. (FH) (Eisenstadt 2023)
Admittance to the Vienna bar
(Vienna 2003)
Clemens Egermann

- Employment
- Real Estate
- Civil and Commercial Law
- Litigation, Arbitration and Enforcement
- Corporate Law
Publications in the areas of civil law, labour law as well as corporate law
Lectures in the areas of civil law, labour law as well as corporate law
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (formerly Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Löber; Vienna 1998 - 2003)
Arabella Eichinger


Mag. (Vienna 1997)
Admittance to the Vienna bar
(Vienna 2003)
Arabella Eichinger

– Real Estate Law
– Hotel Law
– Tenancy and Housing Law
– Construction Law
Lecturer at the University of Vienna (Postgraduate university course on Tourism and Law)
Lecturer at IREBS Immobilienakademie (Real Estate Asset Management course in Austria)
Lectures in the area of real estate law, i.e. at LindeCampus (November Academy Real Estate Development 2022)
Schönherr Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Vienna 2013 - 2023)
ASAMER Holding AG (Vienna 2008 - 2013, Project Manager)
UBM Realitätenentwicklung (Vienna 2005 - 2008, Head of Legal)
Saxinger Chalupsky Weber und Partner Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Vienna 2000 - 2005)
Höhne & In der Maur Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Vienna 1998 - 2000)
Lisa El Imshati


Mag. iur. (Vienna 2019)
LL.M. (Groningen 2020)
Lisa El Imshati

– M & A
– Corporate Law
– Civil and Commercial Law
HSP Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Vienna 2023 – 2025)
IWPS Wirtschaftsprüfungs- und Steuerberatungs GmbH (Vienna 2022, student trainee)
BINDER GRÖSSWANG Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Vienna 2021-2022)
Katrin Gerdenitsch


LL.M. (Vienna 2023)
Katrin Gerdenitsch

– Litigation
– Civil and Commercial Law
Binder Grösswang Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Vienna 2022 - 2024, paralegal)
Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Vienna 2021, junior researcher)
Internships at BDO Austria GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungs- und Steuerberatungsgesellschaft (Vienna 2020), DORDA Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Vienna 2019) and at Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft m.b.H. (Vienna, 2018)
Sandra Handl


LL.B. (Vienna 2024)
Sandra Handl

– Employment Law
– Litigation
Isabella Hartung


Mag.iur. (Vienna 1997)
LL.M. (Bruges 1999)
Dr.iur. (Vienna 2000)
Admittance to the Vienna bar
(Vienna 2003)
Isabella Hartung

- Antitrust/competition law, including compliance and distribution matters
- Energy law
- EU state aid law
- Foreign direct investment screening (Investment Control Act)
Publications in the areas of competition law, energy law and FDI screening
Lectures in the areas of competition law, energy law and FDI screening
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (formerly Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Löber, Vienna and London 2000 - 2006)
Internship at the European Parliament (Brussels 1996) and at the
European Commission (Brussels 1998)
Deniz Hortoğlu Ziegler


Mag.iur. (Vienna 2008)
Deniz Hortoğlu Ziegler

- Antitrust/competition law, including compliance and distribution matters
- Energy law
- EU state aid law
- Foreign direct investment screening (Investment Control Act)
Foreign Investment Review 2025: Austria, Lexology - Panoramic (together with Hartung)
Foreign Investment Review 2024: Austria, Lexology - Panoramic (together with Hartung)
Otis – Ersatz des Kartellschadens mit oder ohne Blick auf den Schutzzweck der Norm? ÖBl 2020, 187 (together with Hartung)
Neue Regeln für das Kronzeugenrennen, Der Standard, 03.04.2013, p 23 (together with Bernhard Kofler-Senoner, LL.M.)
Scientific contributions to the legal commentary "Verschmelzung – Spaltung – Umwandlung", Kalss, 2nd Edition, 2010
Federal Ministry of Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs (Vienna 2014 - 2015)
Federal Ministry of Interior (Vienna 2013 - 2014)
Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati Rechtsanwälte (Vienna 2012 -2013)
Department for Civil and Business Law of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Chair Univ. Prof. Dr. Susanne Kalss, LL.M. (Vienna 2010)
Internships at international business law firms (DORDA, Vienna 2009; Baker McKenzie, Vienna 2009)
Rajan Hothi


Rajan Hothi

– M & A
– Corporate Law
– Civil and Commercial Law
Stapf Neuhauser Rechtsanwälte OG (Vienna 2019 - 2021, student trainee)
Alexander Illigasch


Mag.iur. (Vienna 1994)
Admittance to the Vienna bar
(Vienna 2001)
Alexander Illigasch

- Banking and Finance
- Capital Markets, Securities and Derivatives
- Financial Supervision Law
- Restructuring, Insolvency Advice
- Energy Law
Societas Europaea - Das Handbuch für Praktiker in Deutsch/Englisch (together with Barnert / Dolezel / Egermann), 2005
Hügel Dallmann & Partner (Vienna 1995 - 1999)
Shearman & Sterling (New York 1999 - 2001)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Vienna 2001 - 2003)
Roman Jatzko


Mag.iur. (Vienna 2012)
Admittance to the Vienna bar
(Vienna 2017)
Roman Jatzko

– Real Estate Law
– Corporate Law
EY Law - Pelzmann Gall Größ Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Vienna 2019 - 2023)
Baker McKenzie Diwok Hermann Petsche Rechtsanwälte LLP & Co KG (Vienna 2017 - 2019)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (Vienna 2013 - 2017)
KPMG Austria GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungs- und Steuerberatungsgesellschaft (Vienna 2011 - 2012)
Lorenz Kietreiber


Lorenz Kietreiber

- M & A
- Corporate Law
- Civil and Commercial Law
Anzböck & Brait Rechtsanwälte (Tulln an der Donau 2019 - 2022, student trainee)
Stephan Lurger


Mag.iur (Graz 2001)
Dr.iur. (Graz 2002)
Admittance to the Vienna bar (Vienna 2025)
Stephan Lurger

– Real Estate Law
– Tenancy and Housing Law
– Corporate Law
– M & A
PPP und Vergaberecht, in ecolex 2004, 242
Die strafrechtliche Beurteilung von Submissionsabsprachen seit der KartGNov 2002, in ecolex 2003, 109Von der Aufgrabungsbewilligung zum
vertraglichen Einbautenmanagement – Paradigmenwechsel im Umgang mit dem öffentlichen Gut am Beispiel Wien, in bbl 2003, 223 (together with MMag. Dr. Alexander Patsch)
Public Private Partnerships, in Straberger (Hg.): EU-Recht: Rechtsgrundlagen – Judikatur – Umsetzung in österreichisches Recht. Wien. WEKA. Loseblattsammlung (together with Mag. Katja Schreibmayer)
Lecturer at Akademie für Recht und Steuern in the area of real estate law and project development
Lecturer at Business Circle in the area of M&A (2018)
SIGNA REM Transactions GmbH/SIGNA Development Selection AG (Vienna 2017 – 2025)
Immobilien Holding GmbH (Vienna 2006 – 2017, Head of Legal)
Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte (Vienna 2005 – 2006)
CERHA HEMPEL Rechtsanwälte GmbH (formerly Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati, Vienna 2002 – 2005)
Maria Mösl


LLB.oec. (Salzburg, Februar 2023)
Maria Mösl

– M&A
– Corporate Law
– Civil and Commercial Law
– EU representation WKÖ (Brussels, October 2023)
Jana Pachner


Mag. iur. (Salzburg 2024)
Jana Pachner

– Antitrust
– Energy Law
– Foreign direct investment screening (Investment Control Act)
– Milbank LLP (Munich 2020 – 2024, Working Student)
– Haslinger Nägele Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Vienna 2022, Antitrust Intern)
– activeMind.legal Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft m.b.H
(Munich 2023, Legal Assistant, Data Protection and AI Compliance)
– EU Liaison Office of the State of Salzburg (Brussels 2024, Intern)
Elisabeth Peck


Mag.iur. (Vienna 2007)
Admittance to the Vienna bar
(Vienna 2019)
Elisabeth Peck

– Public Law
– Administrative and Constitutional Law
– Construction and Regional Planning law, Trade Law, Environmental Law
– Real Estate Law
– Urban Development
Digitalisierung im Vergaberecht (together with Troger), in: Hanzl / Pelzmann / Schragl (Hrsg), Handbuch Digitalisierung – Eine Betrachtung aus technologischer, rechtlicher und steuerrechtlicher Sicht, 2021
EY Law - Pelzmann Gall Größ Rechtsanwälte GmbH (Vienna 2019 - 2023)
Sunder-Plaßmann Loibner & Partner Rechtsanwälte OG (Vienna 2016 - 2019)
Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte GmbH & Co KG (Vienna 2015 - 2016)
Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (Vienna 2013 – 2015, legal officer)
Administrative Court (Vienna 2009 - 2013, research assistant)
Internship at Austrian Ombudsman Board (Vienna 2008 - 2009)
Anna Theresa Schmied


Mag.iur. (Vienna 2022)
Anna Theresa Schmied

– Employment Law
– Litigation
Assistant in a consulting company (Vienna 2022 - 2023)
Internships in an international pharmaceutical company (Vienna 2016 - 2019)
Marco Simonitsch


Marco Simonitsch

– Real Estate Law
– Civil Law
– Gahleitner Rechtsanwältin GmbH (Wien 2024 - 2025, student trainee)
Martin Wagner


Mag.iur. (Vienna 2013)
LL.M. (Vienna 2015)
MBA (Krems 2017)
Dr.iur. (Vienna 2017)
Martin Wagner

- Real Estate
- Civil and Commercial Law
- Corporate/M&A
- Litigation
Lecturer at University of Applied Sciences – Burgenland for the following master programs: European Studies - EU Project Management; Human Resource Management und Arbeitsrecht MOEL
Lecturer at University of Applied Sciences – BFI Vienna for the master program Strategic HR Management in Europe
MSW Rechtsanwälte (Vienna 2010 - 2012)
Internships at international business law firms (Schönherr, Vienna 2014; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Vienna 2013; Brandl & Talos, Vienna 2013; Wolf Theiss, Vienna 2012)
Austrian Trade Commission (Office Johannesburg, 2011)