Stefan Paulmayer

Practice Areas

Stefan Paulmayer is a partner of CMS and a member of the Banking & Finance team,. specialising in financing, asset-backed financing (securitisation), restructuring/insolvency law, derivative transactions and (banking) supervisory law.

He has advised on both large (real estate) financing and large (cross-border) restructuring transactions. Another focus of his previous work is the area of bank restructuring and settlement.

Most recently, he focused on the area of New Technologies such as SmartContracts and Blockchain where he is active as both legal advisor of FinTech companies as well as lecturer.

Professional Memberships

2012 - Bar exam

2007 - Mag. iur. (master’s in law), University of Vienna

Publications

Kirchmayr-Schliesselberger/Klas/Miernicki/Rinderle-Ma/Weilinger (Ed.), Cryptocurrencies, article "The classification of tokens under capital market law" (page 317 ff.).

Frick (Editor), The Financial Technology Law Review, Edition 1 (2018), Chapter “Austria”.

Zerey (Hrsg), Handbuch Finanzderivate [Financial derivatives handbook] (2nd to 4th edition, 2010 - 2016), § 37 (Selected questions on financial derivatives in Austria).

Der Standard 2017/47/01: A set of rules for coins and tokens. (https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000068097291/virtuelle-veranlagungsformen-ein-regelwerk-fuer-coins-und-tokens)

ZFR 2017/259: Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and Initial Token Offerings (ITOs): An offer subject to the obligation to publish a prospectus according to CMM?