CERHA HEMPEL — News

CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati advised Worthington Cylinders GmbH, part of the American Worthington Industries group, on the sale of all of its shares in Worthington Cylinders a.s. in Hustopece, Czech Republic, to the Frauenthal group.

On 13 November 2012, CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati staged the CHSH "Big Deal" event for the sixth time at its reception rooms in Vienna.

CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati advised the ACRON Group and helped guide it through the public tender procedure for the acquisition of the recently completed commercial property Wien Westbahnhof A3 at BahnhofCity Wien West.

The Real Estate & Construction team at CHSH, led by Partner Manfred Ton, provided legal advice to Union Investment, one of the largest German asset managers, regarding its acquisition of the fully leased office building "Euro Plaza 4" in Vienna.

CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati held an event on insolvency law on Wednesday 10 October 2012 which attracted a large number of participants. A distinguished panel of guests debated the need for Austria to have its own bank insolvency law during a podium discussion.

CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati acted as Transaction Counsel in connection with the issuance of a corporate bond by SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels-Aktiengesellschaft with a total volume of EUR 200 million as part of a public offer.

CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati received two important accolades at the first "Advocatus" awards ceremony held by the Austrian newspaper Die Presse. CHSH won "Deal of the Year" in two categories.

Dr. Clemens Hasenauer, Head of the Corporate Transactions Department, has written an article with Dr. Robert Eichler, Chief Compliance Officer at OMV, on the amendment to the Issuer Compliance Regulation 2007 which entered into force in February and on the subsequent need for listed companies to make changes as regards compliance. The article appears in the latest edition of Der Gesellschafter…

Windkraft Simonsfeld is preparing a bond issue for autumn 2012 and it is the first Austrian issuer to publish a prospectus under the new prospectus rules.

CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati advised WESTCON Group on its acquisition of Triple AcceSSS IT Distributions & Dienstleistungs GmbH ("3xs"). 3xs was founded as a venture and has grown to become the market leader in the Austrian IT security sector, but is also very active in Switzerland.