Albert Birkner

Practice Areas

M&A, Corporate, Private Clients & Trusts, Private Equity & Venture Capital, Insolvency & Restructuring

Career

Managing Partner Albert Birkner is Head of Department of Takeovers & Antitrust. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures and trusts with a special focus on Austria and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE/SEE). He has developed particular expertise in the fields of structuring and implementation of corporate transactions, takeover mechanics and the modelling of co-ownership structures. Albert has expanded his expertise to structuring and maintenance of private trusts and to the implementation of trust structures within M&A transactions.

Albert has been and is a lead partner on many prominent matters for several years already and holds an extremely vast track record.

Albert is also an author and regular contributor of a number of publications.

He is frequently named as a leading individual within other guides, journals, publications, etc. and often referred to as an expert within his field.

Professional Memberships

Vienna Bar, Czech Bar, IBA, Wiener Advokatengesellschaft UNION

Publications

Corporate M&A 2023: Definitive global law guides offering comparative analysis from top-ranked lawyers. Chambers and Partners, 2023 (with Clemens Hasenauer)

Personal

University of Vienna (Dr. iur. 1995)

University of Cambridge (LL.M. 1995)

Languages Spoken

German, English