Schoenherr and Sweden's Delphi law firm have advised AddLife on its acquisition of all shares in the DACH Medical Group Holding AG. The unidentified sellers were advised by SCWP Schindhelm.

Cerha Hempel has advised OMV on the sale of its 51% stake in Gas Connect Austria GmbH to Verbund AG. Schoenherr advised Verbund on the EUR 271 million sale.

Former Clear Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton attorney Michael Mayr has become a partner in the Antitrust and Competition team at Cerha Hempel in Vienna.

Schoenherr has advised Austrian fintech Bitpanda on a European Series A financing round, led by Valar Ventures, and including other fintech investors such as Speedinvest. The funding secures USD 52 million to further drive Bitpanda's expansion.

Dentons has assisted the Austrian insurance group UNIQA and CherryHUB, its Hungarian InsurTech subsidiary, enter the German market. 

Former Wolf Theiss Counsel Walter Poschl has joined Taylor Wessing.

Dorda has advised Patrizia AG on the acquisition of the Aira Tower residential project in the Reininghaus district of Graz from Aira Development Group.

Binder Groesswang has advised Austrian cryptocurrency service provider SmartBytes GmbH, which offers digital cryptocurrency management under the name Coinpanion, on a pre-seed financing round.

On July 3, 2020, CEE Legal Matters reported that Cerha Hempel, working alongside Deloitte Legal in Germany, had advised Germany's GBTEC Software + Consulting AG on the acquisition of all shares in Avedos. CEEIHM spoke with Sven van Berge Henegouwen, Partner at GBTEC, to learn more about the deal.

Monika Sturm has been promoted to Equity Partner at Fellner Wratzfeld & Partner, bringing the total number of partners at the firm to ten.

Binder Groesswang and Bird & Bird have advised Blockpit on its acquisition of 21 Consulting.

Former PwC Legal Partner Lukas Roper has joined PHH's Corporate Practice, coming along with former PwC Legal Counsels Dominik Kurzmann and Evgeny Rodionov.

White & Case and Wolf Theiss have advised joint lead managers Barclays, MUFG, UniCredit Bank Austria, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole CIB, J.P. Morgan, Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking, Bayern LB, DZ Bank AG, Helaba and SMBC Nikko on OMV Aktiengesellschaft's EUR 1.25 billion hybrid bonds issue. Weber & Co advised the issuer on the deal.

PHH has advised Bondi Consult on the sale of the "service hub" part of the TwentyOne commercial project in Vienna's Floridsdorf district to InterXion, a provider of cloud and carrier-neutral data center services. Gassauer-Fleissner Rechtsanwalte advised InterXion on the deal.

Herbst Kinsky has advised Presono GmbH on a media-for-equity deal with Seven Ventures Austria.

Former Dentons Partner Marcell Clark has joined CMS in Vienna.

Former Weber & Co Partner Christoph Moser will re-join Schoenherr at the beginning of 2021.

Rautner Rechtsanwalte has advised Windkraft Simonsfeld on a EUR 63 million financing deal with the European Investment Bank and Erste Bank.