Former Junior Partner Stefan Adametz has been promoted to Equity Partner with Fellner Wratzfeld & Partner.

Schoenherr has advised Red Bull on the establishment of a joint venture with Van Deer-Red Bull Sports Equipment founding shareholders Marcel Hirscher and Dominic Tritscher and the subsequent acquisition of Augment Ski by Van Deer-Red Bull Sports Equipment.

Schoenherr has advised Austria's Altstoff Recycling on a cooperation agreement for the construction of a new sorting plant in Upper Austria with Duales System Deutschland and Bernegger.

Brandl Talos has advised Sportradar Group AG on the formation of a joint venture with Ringier AG. Reportedly, Bowmans and Baer & Karrer also advised the Sportradar Group, and Webber Wentzel advised Ringier on the deal.

Herbst Kinsky, working with Watson Farley & Williams’ Munich office, advised software and IT service provider Mait on its acquisition of enterprise resource planning specialist Nittmann & Pekoll. The Wiener Advocatur Bureau reportedly advised sellers Christian Nittmann and Angelika Pekoll-Sarica.

Dorda has advised the DigitalBridge Group on its joint acquisition with Brookfield Infrastructure and its institutional partners of a 51% stake in GD Towers from Deutsche Telekom. E+H and Latham and Watkins advised the bidding consortium of GIP, KKR, and Stonepeak. Reportedly, Allen & Overy and Morgan Lewis also advised DigitalBridge, Freshfields and Weil, Gotshal & Manges advised Brookfield Infrastructure, while, on the sell side, Gleiss Lutz, Noerr, CMS, Schoenherr, Cuatrecasas, and Freshfields advised Deutsche Telekom on the deal.

Earlier this year the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the final Guidelines on the limited network exemption (LNE) under the Payment Service Directive 2 (PSD2). Following the consultation phase initiated by the draft, further clarifications were added which are relevant to all service providers who plan to rely on the exclusion as well as those who already do.

E+H has advised the joint venture of STC Development and RoomBuus Baudienstleistungs on the development and sale of the Linz High Five lighthouse project to the Zentral Boden Immobilien Group. EY Law's Pelzmann Gall Groess Rechtsanwalte advised ZBI.

CMS has advised Austria's Alpla on its acquisition of Polish pharmaceutical packaging producer Apon.

On 29 June 2022, the Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the text regarding the European Commission's proposal for a recast of Regulation (EU) 2015/847 (also referred to as the Transfer of Funds Regulation ("TFR")).

Philipp Zumbo has joined Taylor Wessing's corporate team in Vienna as a Partner.

Wolf Theiss, working with Ropes & Gray, has advised Bain Capital Tech Opportunities on its USD 150 million investment in Ataccama, a unified data management platform provider. Deloitte Legal reportedly advised Ataccama.

Public infrastructure projects in Austria and in particular PPPs are undergoing several changes. In the last few years, the focus of PPPs was on social infrastructure like schools, hospitals, and other clinics. Many of them have been structured as so-called Betreibermodelle, i.e., a form of build, finance, and operate models. However, the focus is clearly shifting towards infrastructure for digitalization and climate change.

Schoenherr has advised Caverion Oesterreich on the acquisition of Porreal and its subsidiary Alea. Beira Rechtsanwaelte reportedly advised Porr AG on the sale.

Mueller Partner Rechtsanwalte has announced the departure of the Heads of its Real Estate practice, Partners Manuela Maurer-Kollenz and Simone Maier-Huelle, to join PwC Legal together with their team on July 1, 2022.

Cerha Hempel has advised Red-Stars.com Data AG company Freeeway on a financing round leading to the closure of its pre-series A round.

Brandl Talos has advised Austrian battery diagnostics start-up Aviloo on an equity investment by the European Innovation Council Fund and Raiffeisen's Invest Unternehmensbeteiligungs AG. Binder Groesswang advised the EIC Fund and PHH advised Invest AG.

CMS has advised a group of investors on a Sofina-led EUR 220 million series D financing round for the Rohlik Group. White & Case advised the Rohlik Group. Linklaters reportedly advised Sofina. Pierstone reportedly advised some of the investors.