CERHA HEMPEL — News

On 12 July 2017, the Austrian Federal Minister of Finance, Dr. Hans Jörg Schelling, presented the Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria to Dr. Edith Hlawati, Senior Partner at Vienna law firm CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati Rechtsanwälte GmbH, in the presence of numerous guests.

CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati accelerates the expansion of its anti-trust law practice with the addition of attorney Dr. Ana Feiler (33).

Mag. Lukas Moser joined the Corporate & Commercial department headed by partner Dr. Johannes Aehrenthal in June 2017.

CHSH attorneys Mag. Christopher Peitsch and Dr. Armin Schwabl, LL.M. are the authors of a new handbook on wage dumping, which has recently been published by Linde.

The sale of all of OMV's shares in the Turkish mineral oil distribution company OMV Petrol Ofisi AS (Petrol Ofisi) to Vitol Group has been successfully completed on 13 June 2017.

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A team of specialists headed by partner Johannes Aehrenthal (Corporate/M&A) at international corporate law firm CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati has advised the shareholders of FirmenABC Entwicklung und Management GmbH in connection with the sale of 80% of its share capital to Eugen Marketing Beteiligungen GmbH, a company belonging to the Swiss Investnet group.

The Austrian Federal Competition Authority organised a competition law moot court for the third time in a row this year.

CHSH sponsored this year’s big Latin America Day, organised by the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber on 15 May.

On 9 May 2017, CHSH Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati staged the CHSH "Big Deal" event for the tenth time. As part of the "Big Deal" workshop, fifteen high potentials simulated an M&A transaction and received valuable practical tips and advice.