Chambers Review
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Competition/European Law - Austria
What the Team is Known For
Haslinger / Nagele has a particular focus on assisting clients with state aid and public procurement queries. The law firm also represents clients in high-profile cartel investigations. The team has further experience in merger clearance mandates and the competition compliance aspects of distribution strategies. In addition, team members advise on EU law matters.
Strengths
Response times are super-fast: we get answers within hours. The team are very reliable and deliver when they say they will.
Haslinger / Nagele Rechtsanwälte are very reactive, quick and easy. They don't make things complicated, look at cases closely and don't force people into unnecessary filings.
Work Highlights
Haslinger / Nagele advised Invest on the merger control notification for its acquisition of control of the Philoro Group.
Notable practitioners
Alexander Hiersche represents clients in significant cartel investigations. In addition, he frequently acts on merger clearance filings and state aid mandates.
Alexander Hiersche is a really good communicator who is very friendly and proactive, and very good at explaining complex legal scenarios in a way non-legal people can understand.
Alexander Hiersche was a true pleasure to work with; I developed a friendship with him. He never creates any kind of pressure on you but he does everything so well that we had very little work to do.
We really appreciate his work. He is very quick and pragmatic, and knows the authority.
Alexander Hiersche has a hands-on approach and a good mixture of legal analysis with concrete solutions to our problems.
Martin Oder often assists clients with high-profile cartel investigations. In addition, he advises on state aid matters and distribution agreements.
Martin Oder is a great contact for contractual stuff, with deep knowledge, and is very good at considering how to solve problems.
He is friendly, competent, always available and provides a quick response to enquiries.
Martin Stempkowski has a broad competition law practice advising clients on merger clearance filings, state aid matters and sector inquiries.
He is a really smart guy and really into the cases.