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CERHA HEMPEL Rechtsanwälte GmbH advised NC Growth Fund I GmbH & Co. KG (Nordwind Growth) in connection with Nordwind Growth’s strategic investment in ENPULSION – a world market leader in electric satellite propulsion systems for micro- and nanosatellites.

CERHA HEMPEL acted as transaction counsel to OMV in connection with the formation of Borouge Group International AG as the world’s leading pure-play polyolefins company and fourth-largest polyolefins producer

The Slovak Government approved a draft Act on Equal Pay for Men and Women for Equal Work or Work of Equal Value on 17 December 2025. Following approval by the Tripartite Council on 8 December 2025, the bill was submitted to the National Council of the Slovak Republic on 7 January 2026 and is currently awaiting parliamentary debate. If adopted, the Act will enter into force on 7 June 2026,…

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For a long time, the European capital market was perceived as cumbersome: complex prospectus requirements, extensive ongoing obligations and significant costs discouraged many small and medium-sized enterprises from even considering an IPO. This is precisely where the EU Listing Act comes in whose main parts go into force in March 2026. With this reform package, the European Union pursues a clear…

CERHA HEMPEL is pleased to start the year by announcing that we have successfully advised CA Immobilien Anlagen AG (CA Immo) on the sale of Millenium Tower I, an 18,800 m² office building in Budapest, to Wizz Air.

In practice, the “fit and proper” requirements for senior managers and key function holders at credit institutions are still often viewed as a mere formal prerequisite for appointment. In reality, they have long evolved into an ongoing supervisory obligation with significant personal implications. With the intensified European governance agenda, the supervisory exchange of information on the…

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.