Corporate M and A 2026

AUSTRIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Clemens Hasenauer and Albert Birkner, CERHA HEMPEL

CERHA HEMPEL has 30 partners and 80 senior at - torneys and associates in Austria; the firm also has offices in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ro - mania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. The cor - porate team acts for clients in the private M&A mar - kets of Austria and CEE, representing strategic and private equity investors as well as their targets and/ or management. It also advises on national and inter -

national cross-border mergers and reorganisations, specialising in developing and providing practical so - lutions to sometimes extremely complex issues that often involve cross-border components. Due to the diversity of its clients, the team is particularly experi - enced in advising on public M&A, including takeover law and related disclosure requirements under stock exchange law.

Authors

Clemens Hasenauer is a managing partner at CERHA HEMPEL and head of the corporate transactions department. He specialises in M&A, takeover law, capital markets law, banking and finance, reorganisations

Albert Birkner is a managing partner at CERHA HEMPEL and head of the takeovers and antitrust department. He specialises in M&A, public takeovers, corporate reorganisations and joint ventures, with a special

and restructurings. His experience includes numerous complex public and private M&A transactions, as well as structuring large international joint ventures and public takeovers. Clemens is a member of the Council of the Vienna Bar Association and a delegate to the Austrian Bar Association. He is also a member of the British Law Society, the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the International Bar Association. He is widely published, a frequent speaker at seminars and a permanent lecturer at several institutions.

focus on Austria and CEE/SEE. He has expertise in the fields of structuring and implementing corporate transactions, takeover mechanics and the modelling of co-ownership structures. Albert is a member of the Vienna Bar Association, the Czech Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the Wiener Advokatengesellschaft UNION. He is the author of numerous publications and regularly contributes to industry publications in Austrian and international law journals in his areas of expertise.

CERHA HEMPEL Rechtsanwälte GmbH Parkring 2 A-1010 Vienna Austria Tel: +43 1 514 35 0 Fax: +43 1 514 35 35 Email: office@cerhahempel.com Web: www.cerhahempel.com

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