Markus Piuk

Practice Areas

corporate/M&A, energy, capital markets, finance, insurance, wcc & criminal defence, tax

Career

Markus Piuk is partner at Schoenherr and has more than 20 years of experience as a lawyer, mainly focusing on corporate / m&a related work in South East Europe. He also has great experience in finance and tax law. Within Schoenherr, he has had a major contribution to the development of Schoenherr’s network in South East Europe and today is in charge of m&a teams in Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. Markus has acted frequently for clients in the oil and gas, food/non-food retail an the financial industry (such as REWE, Verbund, Vienna Insurance Group and OMV), as well as financial investors advising them on their foreign direct investment in SEE. He also advises local businesses in this region on domestic and outbound investments.

Markus holds degrees from the University of Vienna (Mag. iur., 1998), the University of Virginia (LL.M., 2000) and ESADE Business School in Barcelona (MBA, 2004). He is admitted to the bar in Austria, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Croatia and Liechtenstein. Markus is a frequent speaker at conferences regarding investments in South East Europe. Markus has published a number of articles on the laws of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and the Republic of Moldova in Austrian and international legal journals, including eastlex (Manz Verlag, Vienna, in German language).

Professional Memberships

Liechtenstein Bar (2016)

Croatian Bar (2015)

Chisinau Bar (Moldova) (2011)

Sofia Bar (Bulgaria) (2007)

Vienna Bar (Austria) (2004)

Bucharest Bar (Romania) (2004)