AUSTRIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Florian Haugeneder, Patrizia Netal, Jurgita Petkutė and Natascha Tunkel, KNOETZL
KNOETZL is Austria’s premier dispute resolution powerhouse and has successfully developed into Austria’s largest dispute resolution team. The arbitra - tion practice encompasses international commercial arbitration, investment protection and arbitration- related court proceedings. Key industries include construction and engineering, energy, banking, auto - motive, aviation, IT and telecommunications, life sci - ences, healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Members of
the arbitration team have successfully acted as coun - sel in some of the largest and most complex disputes in the CEE region in recent decades, under all the major arbitration rules. KNOETZL’s lawyers act as ar - bitrators in a wide array of industries. Members of the firm are recognised as leading arbitration specialists and hold functions in major arbitral institutions and associations.
Authors
Florian Haugeneder is a founding partner of KNOETZL and co-heads its arbitration practice. He has over 20 years’ experience as counsel and arbitrator under the rules of the major arbitral institutions, as well as in ad
Jurgita Petkutė is a partner at KNOETZL and has more than 15 years’ experience in high-value and complex arbitration disputes. Jurgita acts as counsel and arbitrator with a focus on the Baltic region. She has
hoc proceedings under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Florian lectures at the University of Vienna (receiving its Teaching Award in 2018) and is a faculty member of the Delos Remote Oral Advocacy Programme. He frequently speaks and publishes on international arbitration and investment protection. He is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR and of the ICC Task Force on Corruption in Arbitration.
handled arbitration disputes under various substantive laws, as well as under a range of institutional arbitration rules (eg, the ICC, the SCC Arbitration Institute, the Finland Arbitration Institute, the Vienna International Arbitral Centre and the Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration) and ad hoc arbitration rules. Jurgita’s experience includes large disputes stemming from construction agreements, contracts for the supply of goods, corporate, M&A and privatisation agreements as well as transportation, shipping and insurance agreements.
Patrizia Netal is a founding partner of KNOETZL and co-heads its arbitration practice. She has extensive experience in proceedings under the
Natascha Tunkel is a partner at KNOETZL with extensive experience in complex dispute resolution. A core part of her practice is international commercial arbitration with a special focus on new technologies. She acts
DIS, ICC, Swiss Rules, VIAC and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Acting as counsel and arbitrator, she has been involved in large-scale projects across the SEE and CEE regions, with a particular focus on energy, construction and engineering, aerospace, post-M&A disputes and international sales contracts. Patrizia is the vice-president of VIAC and a director of the Vis Moot. She is Austria’s steering committee member of the Pledge for Equal Representation in Arbitration, lectures at the Austrian Arbitration Academy and is a faculty member at Written Advocacy Course by DELOS.
as arbitrator and counsel under leading arbitral rules, including ICC and ICSID, and practises as qualified mediator and certified mediation counsel. Renowned for her expertise in procedural law, she is frequently called upon in arbitrations requiring injunctive or parallel action before the state courts or involving complex jurisdictional issues. She is a member of VIAC’s Mediation Advisory Board, Vice-Chair of the IBA Mediation Committee and Austrian delegate to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR.
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