Albert Birkner

Managing Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate, Private Clients & Trusts, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Insolvency & Restructuring Albert specializes in mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures and trusts with a special focus on Austria and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE/SEE). He has developed particular expertise in the fields of structuring and implementation of corporate transactions, takeover mechanics and the modelling of co-ownership structures. Albert has expanded his expertise to structuring and maintenance of private trusts and to the implementation of trust structures within M&A transactions. Albert has been and is a lead partner on many prominent matters for several years already and holds an extremely vast track record. Albert is also an author and regular contributor of a number of publications. · Cerha Hempel

AustriaCorporate / M&A, Mergers & AcquisitionsGerman, English

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Albert Birkner is a managing partner specialising in mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures and trusts with a focus on Austria and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE/SEE). He has particular expertise in transaction structuring, takeover mechanics, co-ownership modelling and trust structuring and is a lead partner on numerous prominent matters; he is also an author and regular contributor to legal publications.

Practice areas

Corporate / M&AMergers & AcquisitionsPrivate Clients & TrustsPrivate Equity & Venture CapitalInsolvency & Restructuring

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Austria

Cerha Hempel · Managing Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate, Private Clients & Trusts, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Insolvency & Restructuring Albert specializes in mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures and trusts with a special focus on Austria and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE/SEE). He has developed particular expertise in the fields of structuring and implementation of corporate transactions, takeover mechanics and the modelling of co-ownership structures. Albert has expanded his expertise to structuring and maintenance of private trusts and to the implementation of trust structures within M&A transactions. Albert has been and is a lead partner on many prominent matters for several years already and holds an extremely vast track record. Albert is also an author and regular contributor of a number of publications.

Austria

Expertise

M&A structuring and implementationPublic takeovers and takeover mechanicsCorporate reorganizationsJoint venturesTrust structuring and maintenance; trust implementation in M&ACo-ownership structure modellingCross-border transactions in Austria and CEE/SEELegal publishing and authorship

Education

University of Vienna, Mag. iur. (1992)
University of Vienna, Dr. iur. (1995)
University of Cambridge, LL.M. (1995)

Admissions

Vienna Bar Association
Czech Bar Association
International Bar Association
Wiener Advokatengesellschaft UNION

Languages

GermanEnglish