CERHA HEMPEL — News

CHSH advised CA Immo, the Vienna-based real estate investor on the sale of a shopping mall named Duna Center. The facility is located in Győr, Hungary and has a gross lettable area of approx. 16 000 sqm.

The number of partners at CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati increased from 1 January 2019: Dr. Michaela Siegwart and Mag. Lorenz Pracht are made partners of the firm.

CHSH partner Dr. Benjamin Twardosz, LL.M. is co-author of the "Handbook on Voluntary Disclosure", which has just been released by MANZ.

Major success for the criminal law team at CHSH: All criminal charges brought by the Central Public Prosecutor's Office for White-Collar Crime and Corruption against the former Director of the Burgtheater, Matthias Hartmann, who has been represented by CHSH, have been dropped.

On 3 and 4 December 2018, the "Anti-Trust & Competition Compliance in CEE" conference, sponsored by CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati, was held in Prague.

Following lengthy debate, the Regulation on addressing geo-blocking (Regulation (EU) 2018/302; "Geo-Blocking Regulation") enters into force today.

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On 10 November 2018, CHSH partner Dr. Thomas TRETTNAK (Corporate / M&A) and CHSH attorney Mag. Lukas MOSER (Corporate / M&A) gave a talk on "Start-ups and legal pitfalls" as part of the annual Founder Academy run by Erste Bank and Spar-kassen at the Erste Campus in Vienna.

The Austrian Association for Construction Law (ÖGEBAU) has presented the ÖGEBAU Prize 2018 to CHSH attorney Dr. Alexandra Stoffl, BA, MA (30).

Numerous guests from Austrian and international banks accepted an invitation to attend an event entitled "Compliance in the Securities Business" held in the conference rooms of CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati on Monday 12 November 2018.