Cerha Hempel has advised Switzerland's Stadler Bussnang on a EUR 240 million tender procedure for the sale of up to 20 new fire-fighting and rescue trains to the Austrian Federal Railways.

CHG Czernich lawyers Arnold Autengruber, Clemens Handl and Daniel Tamerl have become new Equity Partners at the firm.

Herbst Kinsky has advised the founders of the company and investor eQventure on the sale of 100% of their shares in Xaleon to TeamViewer. Eisenberger & Herzog advised the buyer on the deal.

BPV Huegel has advised Austria’s Herold and Dortmund-based Dogado Group — both subsidiaries of the EDSA Group — on their merger. Allen & Overy advised the EDSA Group, and SIWE Rechtsanwalte Sinzger & Partner also advised the Dogado Group.

Fellner Wratzfeld & Partners has advised the founder of GREENoneTEC, Robert Kanduth, on his repurchase of 51% of the shares in GREENoneTEC Solarindustrie from China’s Haier Group. Fangda Partners in China and Weber & Co. in Austria reportedly advised the seller on the deal.

Former Vaillant Group Austria Head of Legal and Compliance Manager Maria Lepuschitz has joined the INNIO Group as Regional General Counsel for EMEA.

Baker McKenzie has advised Kelag on the acquisition of 25 power plants in France and Portugal from the RWE Group. Local expertise for Portugal was provided by the Portuguese law firm Abreu Advogados, while the Dusseldorf office of Clifford Chance advised the RWE Group on the deal.

K-B-K Kleibel Kreibich Bukovc Hirsch and the law firm of Leopold Hirsch have merged to form KBK Hirsch in Salzburg.

Arabella Eichinger, Andreas Natterer, and Michael Woller have been promoted to Equity Partner, Marcin Aslanowicz, Bojan Brezan, Vid Kobe, and Maximilian Lang have been promoted to Contract Partner, and Marko Frantar has been promoted to Local Partner as part of Schoenherr's recent promotion round.

Schoenherr is advising Starwood Capital Group on its offer for a public takeover of VSE-listed CA Immobilien Anlagen AG.

Binder Groesswang has helped the Wustenrot Group set up its own bank for private customers.

DLA Piper has advised Panoptes Pharma co-founders Franz Obermayr and Stefan Sperl and other unspecified shareholders on the sale of 100% of the company to EyeGate Pharmaceuticals. Frotz Riedl in Austria and Burns & Levinson in the US reportedly advised the buyer.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised a consortium of Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas, HSBC, and UniCredit on the placement of Qiagen NV’s USD 500 million convertible bond due in 2027 and the management of bondholder’s buyback of Qiagen's convertible bonds due in 2021.

Cerha Hempel has advised Worthington Cylinders GmbH, a designer and manufacturer of pressure vessels, on its acquisition of all of the shares in German PTEC Pressure Technology GmbH from its unidentified founder and sole shareholder. 

Cerha Hempel, working with Allen & Overy’s Amsterdam office, has advised Mississippi Ventures B.V. on the acquisition of 50% of the shares in Dutch retail chain Hema B.V. from the Ad Hoc Group. Loyens & Loeff advised the Ad Hoc Group on the deal, which is expected to close in the first quarter of this year, and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek advised Hema.

Binder Groesswang has advised Raiffeisen Bank on the acquisition of several bank branches, including customer relationships, from Landes-Hypothekenbanken Steiermark AG. Saxinger, Chalupsky & Partner advised Landes-Hypothekenbanken Steiermark on the deal, which closed on January 1, 2021.

The Digital Markets Act proposal (DMA) is a collection of complex obligations imposed on certain digital service providers. We previously described the salient features of the DMA here. In this article we focus on the definition and designation of gatekeepers, the powers of the EC compared to Member States and the potential effects of the DMA initiative within CEE.

Clifford Chance’s Prague office has helped the Sazka Group obtain a EUR 640 million senior secured loan. Allen & Overy advised the unidentified lenders on the deal, along with, reportedly, the Bernitsas Law Firm in Greece, Georgiades & Pelides in Cyprus, and CMS Reich Rohrwig Hainz in Austria.