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Renowned corporate law firm CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati has every reason to celebrate after winning two more international awards. This year’s ILO Client Choice Awards recognise the outstanding achievements of Edith Hlawati and Clemens Hasenauer in the fields of Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions, respectively.

CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati has received yet another international accolade: the London-based magazine “Corporate International” has once again awarded the “Capital Markets Excellence Award Austria” to the Banking & Corporate Finance Team headed by Dr. Edith Hlawati. CHSH received this honour last year and it has scooped the award once again this year. The award recognises the excellent…

CHSH advised the French PagesJaunes Group regarding its 100% acquisition of the people search engine 123people.com from GCP gamma capital partners, i5Invest and minority owners.

Am 27.Mai fand in der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek in Anwesenheit zahlreicher namhafter Vertreter aus Wirtschaft und Praxis die Präsentation des im LexisNexis Verlag neu erschienenen, zweibändigen „Handbuchs Unternehmenskauf & Due Diligence“ statt.

The International Trade Fair for Commercial and Industrial Property, Real Vienna 2010, was held at the Messe Wien from 18 to 20 May 2010.

For the third time in the space of just a few years, CHSH has won one of the most important international awards a corporate law firm can receive: the IFLR “Austrian Law Firm of the Year” award.

CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati advised the Swiss energy trading group Alpiq regarding its corporate restructuring in Central Europe. The cross-border merger involved companies in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, including one Societas Europaea.

Am 14. April 2010 trafen erstmals Anwälte und Experten im Rahmen der neuen Veranstaltunsgreihe „Kanzlei & Karriere“ der „Presse“ im Palais Coburg zusammen. Der Abend stand ganz im Zeichen von M&A, wobei auch Clemens Hasenauer, Partner und Head of Corporate Transactions bei CHSH, unter der prominenten Expertenrunde über „Return on Investment? – Mythos M&A-Anwalt“ debattierte.

Der "Digital Guide" von Executiveview.com ist erschienen und behandelt in zahlreichen Jurisdiktionen weltweit aktuelle Entwicklungen in den Bereichen Litigation, Arbitration und Alternative Dispute Resolution. Das Contentious Business Department von CHSH ist mit Beiträgen zu den Themen "Fast Track Arbitration in Austria", "Vienna as a Seat of Arbitration", "Class Actions: Made in Austria" sowie…

Peter Knobl, partner at CHSH, and Katharina Grafenhofer, associate at CHSH, have published an article on this important current and practical issue. The current edition of the Austrain Journal for Corporate and Governance Law (GesRZ 2010, 27ff) includes a compilation of applicable legal ramifications under the (Austrian) Securities Supervision Act 1996 as well as under the Securities Supervision…