CERHA HEMPEL — News

For the seventeenth consecutive year, CERHA HEMPEL in cooperation with the Vienna University of Economics and Business has awarded prizes to those students who have written the best dissertations on the subject of commercial law.

CERHA HEMPEL has advised the Hotusa Group, an international hotel group, on its successful acquisition of the historic Grand Hotel Wien as part of a structured international liquidation process following the insolvency of Grand Hotel GmbH. 

Stefan Huber, LL.M., and Anna Wolf-Posch, LL.M., both of whom are partners at CERHA HEMPEL, have authored a comprehensive handbook entitled "Digitales Wirtschaftsrecht – Digitalisierung, Regulierung und Technologie im Wirtschaftsrecht" (Digital Commercial Law – Digitalization, Regulation, and Technology in Commercial Law), recently published by Verlag Österreich.

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CERHA HEMPEL has every reason to celebrate after receiving yet another international accolade. 

As part of this year's Financial Planner Conference on 11 November 2025, which marks the 75^th anniversary of the foundation of the Austrian Centre for Productivity and Efficiency (ÖPWZ), CERHA HEMPEL Banking and Finance partner Dr. Peter Knobl updated numerous financial advisors, portfolio managers, and financial planners on the latest regulatory developments relating to investment advice and…

This year, CERHA HEMPEL was once again delighted to participate in the IBA Annual Conference.

AMINA (Austria) AG, a subsidiary of AMINA Bank AG, has recently received authorisation from the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) to provide crypto-asset services under the EU's new Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). 

Hon.-Prof. Dr Georg Nowotny, former President of a senate of the Supreme Court, will in future support CERHA HEMPEL and its clients as Of Counsel.

CERHA HEMPEL comprehensively advised CA Immobilien Anlagen AG (CA Immo) on the sale of the Bartók Ház – a 17,600 m² office building in Budapest – to the Czech DRFG Investment Group. This marks one of the standout real estate deals of 2025 in Hungary. The transaction team comprised Wilhelm Stettner as lead partner, András Fenyőházi as partner and Csongor Fillár as associate.