Corporate, M&A, Reorganizations, Insolvency Protection Advice

Advising foreign investors on the purchase of Austrian aircraft management and aviation companies via share purchase agreements and call options, including drafting and negotiating all related corporate documents.

Advising a leading Austrian e-learning and IT company on the formation of, and ongoing legal advice to, an Austrian joint venture company with an Asian co-shareholder, including capital increases and the preparation of an initial public offering, and drafting all corporate and contractual joint venture agreements between the co-shareholders.

Advising the management board of an Austrian bank in the form of a stock corporation, teaming up with Austrian and foreign investors, on the management buyout of that bank, including the introduction of external investors, drafting all agreements including internal shareholders' agreements, and ongoing corporate advice to that bank including changes of shareholders, capital increases and reorganisations.

Advising the Sellers of Austrian industrial real estate to foreign investors via an asset deal.

Advising the Sellers of an Austrian mineral oil transport company to an Austrian purchaser via a share deal.

Advising an Austrian investor on the acquisition of a Romanian mineral water company, including advice on all related corporate matters in cooperation with the international network of law firms of Dr. Martin Geiger.

Advising a Swiss science company active, inter alia, in connection with CERN in Geneva on its entry into an Austrian chemical company, including drafting and negotiating all related corporate documents.

Advising several energy companies on the formation of a joint venture for the supply of electricity in Austria, including drafting all shareholders' agreements, call options, put options, deadlock mechanisms and other corporate instruments.

Formation of, and ongoing corporate advice to, several Austrian companies in the form of limited liability companies, stock corporations and investment fund companies making mezzanine investments within and outside the EU, including subsequent changes of shareholders and reorganisations.

Advising and representing those mezzanine investors in their ongoing investments at corporate level by way of hybrid agreements combining up-front share purchases, real or synthetic call and put options over further shares, and sales to third-party investors or initial public offerings triggering real or synthetic tag-along, drag-along and other corporate mechanisms.

Advising an Austrian bank on, and drafting and negotiating, debt-equity swap agreements by which the bank acquired shares in Austrian companies in place of the existing exposures of its banking clients.

Advising an Austrian real estate company on the issue of convertible bonds entitling subscribers to become shareholders of that real estate company.

Advising an Austrian venture fund on its capital market prospectus and on various M&A transactions as Purchaser.

Advising Austrian investors regarding real asset contribution agreements into Austrian limited partnership with a limited liability company as its general partner (GmbH & Co KG) to be ownership holding companies of Austrian hotels.

Formation of a non-profit limited liability company, taking into account all corporate and tax requirements of non-profit status in Austria (together with a tax adviser), intended to be active in the health sector and in advising international organisations based in Vienna and Geneva, including the UN and the WHO.

Formation of, and ongoing corporate advice to, medical group practices of Austrian medical practitioners in the form of open partnerships and limited liability companies, including the restructuring of an open partnership into a limited liability company and the drafting and negotiation of all related corporate documents and shareholders' agreements between the participating doctors.

Advising the Austrian holding company of one of the leading suppliers to the worldwide automotive industry on all matters of corporate law.

Advising an Anglo-American globally active fund management company on all Austria-related matters of corporate law.