Deloitte Legal Austria News

Gabriele Etzl of JWO | Deloitte Legal Austria advises on the purchase and sale of real estate as well as on financing and rental agreements.

Maximilian Weiler and Christian Wilplinger explain the benefits of Austrian Private Foundations.

Gerald Hendler already spent most of his training period at the firm from 2016 to the beginning of 2022.

Gabriele Etzl led the deal for the sale of the Twin Towers on Wienerberg from IMMOFINANZ to S IMMO.

Jank Weiler Operenyi, the Austrian law firm in the global Deloitte Legal network, is further expanding its management team. Johannes Lutterotti, previously Counsel at the firm, has been appointed Partner in the Corporate/M&A department as of January 1, 2024.

Bernhard Köck joins the law firm JWO | Deloitte Legal Austria with immediate effect in the areas of Banking | Finance and Litigation.

The Jank Weiler Operenyi advisory team consisted of partner Maximilian Weiler, counsel Johannes Lutterotti and associates Gerald Hendler (all Corporate | M&A).

Under the leadership of partner Alexander Operenyi, Deloitte Legal's legal advisory team consisted of partner Gabriele Etzl, partner Stefan Zischka, Johannes Lutterotti and counsel Bernhard Köck.

A recent ECJ verdict confirms that states may not circumvent the ban on data retention by obliging private providers to collect data from the state by law.

JWO | Deloitte Legal Austria expands its advisory services in Austria in the area of banking regulatory and financial industries.

Waldviertler Sparkasse Bank AG transferred its Czech retail and corporate customer business to Česká spořitelna, a.s. as of January 1, 2021. The sale was approved by the relevant national competition authorities in four countries and the Czech National Bank.

Consent under data protection law must be given voluntarily. If there is a lack of choice, the necessary voluntariness is also lacking. However, the new warranty law offers valid arguments that virtually force a departure from the previous line of argument.

Deloitte Legal Austria advises Innsbrucker Kommunalbetriebe AG (IKB) on a new citizen model: vouchers for photovoltaics.

JWO | Deloitte Legal Austria is strengthening its range of advisory services in the core areas of Corporate/M&A and Real Estate as well as its regional expansion in Styria. The experienced lawyer Miriam Nehajova has been recruited for this purpose.

Deloitte Legal's data protection team is also ranked in Tier 3 in the 2023 edition of Legal 500, making it one of the best data protection law teams in Austria.

According to the trend lawyer ranking 2022, Sascha Jung is one of Austria's leading experts in data protection law.

Christian Kern strengthens the data protection team with his in-depth knowledge. Christian Kern is a lawyer and proven data protection expert. He previously worked as a partner in a renowned Austrian commercial law firm.

Together with Deloitte's tax team, the corporate M&A team is assisting with this complex international expansion.

The data leak at a GIS subcontractor affected around 9 million reporting data. What are the consequences for GIS?

In the 2023 edition of Chambers, JWO | Deloitte Legal Austria is represented in the Europe Ranking and for the first time also in the Global Ranking.

In the 2023 edition of Legal 500, JWO | Deloitte Legal Austria is now ranked in eight categories.

In an interdisciplinary project, the Corporate | M&A team advised together with the Deloitte tax team.

The Real Estate Law team and the Banking | Finance team support the listed company Immofinanz in the sale of several office properties at Wienerberg to S Immo.

At JWO, the Austrian law firm in the global Deloitte Legal network, all signs point to growth. Deloitte Legal is expanding its top management with three new lawyers at partner level.

Michael Putz, founder and majority owner of coronavirus test kit provider Lead Horizon, expressed his "great relief" at a press conference on Friday that the investigation against him had been dropped. "A huge weight has been lifted from my heart".

This is what name partner Dr. Andreas Jank stands for, who advises on project financing with his team.

According to a recent Deloitte study, Austria now ranks first in continental Europe for privately financed new-build apartments.

JWO | Deloitte Legal Austria is listed several times in the JUVE Handbook of Austrian Commercial Law Firms 2023/2024.

The experienced lawyer Mario Schiavon is now supporting the Real Estate department.

The agreement of certain supply clauses protects producers from trademark exhaustion when (re)importing into the EU. In a recently published judgment, the Supreme Court (OGH) ruled in favor of the perfume manufacturer Puig.

The team is also involved in high-volume transactions more frequently than before, and deals in the three-digit million range are no longer an exception.

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The "Law Firm of the Year Austria" is an award that recognizes the development of Austrian law firms as a whole and their management performance in particular, over and above individual areas of law.

JUVE 2023 ranks JWO | Deloitte Legal Austria among the best law firms in the areas of IT & data protection as well as trademark & competition law

Once again, JWO | Deloitte Legal Austria, under the leadership of Alexander Operenyi and Johannes Lutterotti, was voted one of Austria's leading law firms in the area of Corporate | M&A.

The restructuring practice led by name partner Dr. Andreas Jank is a recognized name in the market, particularly when it comes to representing creditors.

Chambers ranks the Corporate | M&A Practice Group of JWO | Deloitte Legal Austria and Alexander Operenyi among the leading law firms and lawyers in Austria in the Chambers Global Ranking 2024.

Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers 2023 rank Maximilian Weiler and Sascha Jung among the best lawyers in Austria in the fields of wealth planning and IT law respectively.

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The Austrian media company oe24 and its former editor-in-chief have lost out in the dispute with Der Spiegel and the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ).

T-Mobile Austria paid an impressive 1.9 billion euros to acquire the telephone and internet provider UPC at the end of 2017. The post-merger integration has now been completed.

The Viennese law firm Jank Weiler Operenyi will cooperate with the legal consulting arm of the international business, tax and management consultancy Deloitte.