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Walter Gapp Makes Partner at CMS in Vienna

Walter Gapp Makes Partner at CMS in Vienna

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Former Rautner Rechtsanwalte Partner Walter Gapp has joined CMS in Vienna.

According to CMS, "with a focus on debt capital markets, [Gapp] has specialized over many years in advice to investment banks and issuers, legal support for securitizations and supervisory law. He acquired his wide-ranging expertise and experience in this field over the last 15 years with renowned Viennese law firms and has proven his skills in international transactions.

"With Walter Gapp, we are gaining an experienced expert in the field of capital markets law," said CMS Partner Martin Zuffer. "His presence enables us to expand our range of services and client base."

Gapp studied at Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck, the University of Geneva, and the University of Lausanne. Prior to joining CMS, Gapp spent ten years at Schonherr and almost four years at Rautner Rechtsanwalte.

CMS at a Glance

CMS Sofia is a full-service law firm, the largest international law firm in Bulgaria and one of the largest providers of legal services in the local market as a whole. The breadth and depth of our practice means that our lawyers are specialised, with a level of specialisation that few of our competitors can match.

CMS Sofia is the Bulgarian branch of CMS, a top ten global legal and tax services provider with over 5000 lawyers in 43 countries and 78 offices across the world.

CMS entered the Bulgarian market as one of the first internationally active law firms in 2005 and is now among the most respected legal advisors in the country. We have 7 partners, 4 counsel and over 30 lawyers in our office in Sofia.

Our legal experts, who are rooted in Bulgaria’s local culture, can also draw on years of experience in foreign countries and are at home in several legal systems at once. We know the particularities of the local market just as well as the needs of our clients and combine both to achieve optimum solutions. Our lawyers are Bulgarian qualified and we also have English qualified experts – all of them regularly working on cross-border mandates.

In our work, we focus on M&A, Energy, Projects and Construction, Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Media, IP and IT law, Tax, Employment law, Competition, Procurement and any kind of Dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. What’s more, we also take care of the entire legal management of our clients’ projects.

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