AUSTRIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Clemens Philipp Schindler and Mohamed Hemdan, Schindler Attorneys
Schindler Attorneys is a leading Austrian law firm for transactional work, with extensive experience in M&A, private equity, finance, real estate, corporate, employment, data protection, litigation, tax and se - curities law. The firm’s ambition is to provide top- quality services and to become an instrumental part of its clients’ businesses. Schindler Attorneys seeks long-term, collaborative relationships with clients and partner firms, as the team firmly believes that trusted co-operation is the key to success. The firm is fre -
quently involved in cross-border matters and co-ordi - nates or participates in multi-jurisdictional teams on a regular basis. It has a leading market position for both national and cross-border corporate reorganisa - tions; the Schindler Attorneys lawyers who focused on that area were among the first in Austria to imple - ment cross-border mergers, European Companies (SE) structures and corporate migrations. The firm’s legal tax services are provided by one partner, one counsel and one associate.
Authors
Clemens Philipp Schindler is a founding partner of Schindler Attorneys. Before establishing the firm, he spent six years at WOLF THEISS, where he led some of the firm’s most prestigious transactions
Mohamed Hemdan is an associate at Schindler Attorneys. He previously spent two years at Grant Thornton Austria, specialising in corporate and international tax. Mohamed focuses on national and international tax
and headed its Brazil operations. Clemens is admitted in Austria as an attorney-at-law and a certified public tax adviser, focusing on corporate and tax advice in relation to public and private M&A, private equity and corporate reorganisations, most of which have a cross-border element. He also specialises in international holding structures, including charter financing and leasing operations. His practice is complemented by private client work (eg, as counsel to families owning stakes in large corporations).
advice, M&A, corporate reorganisations and private client matters. He holds an LLM degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where he graduated summa cum laude, and has also contributed to publications in the field of tax and transaction advisory. Mohamed also completed an exchange semester at the Law Faculty of the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom.
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