CERHA HEMPEL — News

CA IMMO, a Vienna-based real estate company, and Union Investment Real Estate, a German real estate investment manager, successfully sold their co-owned logistics centre named Aerozone, thus completing the strategic process of CA Immo’s withdrawal from the logistics segment.

On 29 April 2017 at the Lex Mundi Leadership Summit of the "World's Leading Association of Independent Law Firms" in Prague, CHSH Partner Hon.-Prof. Dr. Irene Welser was appointed Global Chair for Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution.

CHSH's banking law expert, partner Peter Knobl, has written the Austrian contribution for the third edition of Rene Bösch's Banking Regulation, published in 2017.

CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati has every reason to celebrate after receiving yet another international accolade. At this year's Chambers Europe Awards in London, CHSH received the renowned "Austria Law Firm of the Year Award 2017" in recognition of the excellent service it provides its clients.

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On Monday 27 March 2017, CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati hosted in its conference rooms an event of the Austrian-Brazilian Association of Commerce.

The Vienna-based investment manager GalCap Europe has acquired a renovated palais in the centre ofBudapest under its Eastern European mandate for an individual fund of a German pension schememanaged by Institutional Investment Partners.

CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati Rechtsanwälte advised OMV in connection with the sale of all of its shares in the Turkish mineral oil distribution company OMV Petrol Ofisi AS (Petrol Ofisi) to Vitol Group. The CHSH M&A team under the lead of Clemens Hasenauer acted as Austrian transaction counsel for OMV.

Led by its partners Clemens Hasenauer (Lead Partner, Corporate/M&A) and Harald Stingl (Partner, Corporate/M&A), CHSH advised U City Public Company Ltd. on the combined acquisition of Vienna House hotel portfolio from two Austrian private foundations and Warimpex Finanz- und Beteiligungs AG.

On Tuesday 21 February 2017, numerous guests from leading Austrian and international companies learned first-hand about current developments and new trends with regard to M&A insurance in the conference rooms of Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati.