E+H Rechtsanwälte GmbH‘s team leverages knowledge from the firm’s finance, capital markets, and restructuring specialists to advise clients comprehensively on the full gamut of M&A and frequently acts in multijurisdictional transactions. The department is jointly steered by the ’extremely experienced’ Peter Winkler, who also co-leads the firm’s finance and capital markets group, and Josef Schmidt, who excels at the intersection of M&A, corporate, financial regulatory, and capital markets law with a specialism in private equity transactions.
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  • ‘The particular strength of this law firm is that there is a specialist for each area and that this specialist is also immediately called in for inquiries. The firm is well networked internationally and can offer a partner in the desired countries and in the desired quality at any time.'

  • ‘Clemens Lanschützer is an excellent M&A lawyer whose work style is characterised by high availability and fast response times in transactions. His entire team is characterised by a high level of service readiness’

  • ‘Johannes Feilmair is an outstanding, extremely hard-working lawyer who is very willing to understand the client's needs, and I can highly recommend him. Definitely one of the up-and-coming M&A lawyers in the Austrian market.’
  • ‘Excellent knowledge of M&A, litigation and restructuring.'

  • ‘Peter Winkler is extremely experienced, very deeply involved in the cases and knows all the details, so he can give great strategic advice.’

  • ‘Excellent expertise, quick response, good availability.’

  • ‘The team of E+H Rechtsanwälte GmbH acts experienced and confidently as Austrian local counsel in cross-border M&A transactions; pragmatic, solution-orientated and always with an understanding of the essentials.’

  • ‘Peter Winkler is a trusted strategic and regulatory advisor to us. Philipp Schrader has not only profound M&A experience, but also a very valuable understanding of how banks work. Josef Schmidt has a quick grasp and the ability to provide practical solutions to complex issues. ’

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Clients clés

  • InfraRed Capital Partners and Nexspace
  • Wienerberger AG
  • Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc.
  • UBM Development AG
  • Coveris Group
  • Burgenland Energie
  • Bregal Unternehmenskapital GmbH (Amsterdam Investment II S.á.r.l.)
  • HYPO-BANK BURGENLAND Aktiengesellschaft
  • Shareholders of BDI Holding GmbH
  • Carlyle

Points forts

  • Advised the founders of single use support as lead counsel in their sale of a 60% stake through a structured auction.
  • Advised Wienerberger as lead counsel on its acquisition of the Terreal business in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the US and Luxembourg, with a parallel sale of Terreal's eastern business.
  • Advised PAI Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in the rehabilitation business of VAMED Group from Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA.

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Responsable de la pratique

Peter Winkler, Josef Schmidt

Autres avocats clés

Alric Ofenheimer; Clemens Lanschuetzer; Johannes Feilmair; Philipp Schrader