Hengeler Mueller is advising Austria's Greiner on obtaining the European Commission's merger control approval in relation to its conditional voluntary public takeover offer to acquire a majority of Recticel shares, which was officially announced on October 06, 2021.

Schoenherr has advised Swiss investment company Nice & Green on the up to EUR 5.4 million convertible note funding program for Vienna Stock Exchange-listed Marinomed Biotech. Herbst Kinsky advised Marinomed.

Former Amsterdam-based Park Now Group General Counsel, Chief Risk and Compliance Michael Czermak has joined Casinos Austria Managing Director Legal Affairs in Vienna.

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BPV Huegel has advised the German Wurth Group on the acquisition of the family-owned Upper Austrian C.I.C.M.P. Vertriebs-GmbH. Hochleitner Rechtsanwalte reportedly advised the seller.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised Apera and the super senior banks on the financing of pharmaceutical company Euro Vital Pharma Group. Taylor Wessing has advised the borrower. PRK Partners reportedly advised the lenders on the deal.

Dorda, working with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, has advised the shareholders of Austrian startup PSPDFKit on a EUR 100 million investment from Insight Partners. Chapman & Cutler also advised PSPDFKit, with Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Binder Groesswang advising Insight Partners.

CMS has advised Alpla on forming a EUR 7.5 million joint venture together with Romania's Ecohelp and Switzerland's United Polymer Trading. Reportedly, Cabinet Costea advised Ecohelp and Furer Partner Advocaten advised UPT.

Wolf Theiss has advised Kommunalkredit Austria on its EUR 250 million issuance of 0.01% covered bank bonds. Schoenherr has advised the joint lead managers DZ Bank, Erste Group Bank, Landesbank Hessen-Thuringen Girozentrale, and Raiffeisen Bank International.

Herbst Kinsky has advised Austrian C&P Immobilien on the acquisition of the majority of shares in German Alpenimmobilien. Taylor Wessing advised the seller.

E+H has advised the Grawe Banking Group on the simplification of its structure through two intra-group mergers.

CMS has advised Teda-MM and LDS Plast on the sale of a majority stake to CEECAT Capital.

Former Wolf Theiss lawyer Jochen Anweiler has joined E+H as a Partner to open the firm's Brussels office. 

Binder Groesswang has advised Raiffeisenlandesbank Upper Austria on the merger with its wholly-owned subsidiary Salzburger Landes-Hypothekenbank.

Herbst Kinsky has advised the shareholders of Austrian mobility start-up Carployee on the sale of their company to California-based RideAmigos.

In summer 2021 the European Banking Authority (EBA) published Draft Guidelines on the limited network exemption (LNE) under the Payment Service Directive 2 (PSD2) for consultation. The Draft Guidelines are meant to foster supervisory convergence amongst the EU's national competent regulators (NCAs).

On 2 September 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued the much awaited judgement in the Komstroy vs Moldova case (C-741/19).

Schoenherr has advised P&I Personal & Informatik on its acquisition of Austria-based VRZ Informatik Gesellschaft and its Switzerland-based sister company ThinkCreateAct.