Clemens Hasenauer

Practice Areas

Mergers & Acquisitions

Banking & Finance

Capital Markets

Corporate

Compliance & Investigations

Private Equity & Venture Capital

Career

Managing Partner Clemens Hasenauer is Head of Department Corporate Transactions focusing on M&A and public takeover transactions. He heads the Department since the year 2007. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, takeover law, banking and finance, reorganisations and restructurings. His broad experience includes numerous complex public and private M&A transactions, and he is particularly renowned for structuring large international joint ventures and public takeovers. In past years Clemens regularly advised on Austria’s most prominent transactions.

Clemens is also a university lecturer (holding M&A classes for post-graduate studies) and is author of a number of publications, in particular in the field of corporate, M&A, takeover and capital markets law. In addition, he is the academic chair of the most renowned annual legal conference in Austria (Business Circle's RuSt) which has a strong focus on legal and tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions and other transactions.

Clemens is regularly named and recommended as expert and leader in his field as well as top ranked within other guides, journals and publications, etc.

Professional Memberships

Vienna Bar Association (Council)

The Law Society

American Bar Association

New York State Bar Association

International Bar Association

Publications

Recent:

Die Qual der Wahl. Gesetz zur neuen virtuellen Gesellschafterversammlung, HV Magazin 03/2023

Corporate M&A 2023, Definitive global law guides offering comparative analysis from top-ranked lawyers, Chambers and Partner, 2023 (with Albert Birkner)

Ein schleichender Kontrollausbau wird leichter, HV Magazin 04/2022

Corporate Acquisitions and Mergers in Austria, Wolters Kluwer (2022) (with Dr. Albert Birkner, LL.M.)

Abgrenzungsfragen bei der Ad-hoc-Publizität, Der Gesellschafter, 04/2022, 210ff

Personal

Education

Vienna University of Economics and Business, WU Executive Academy (MBA, 2017)

New York University School of Law (LL.M. 1997), Fulbright Scholar

University of Vienna (Mag.iur. 1994, Dr.iur. 1996)

Faculté de droit, Paris V - Université Paris Descartes (1992/93)

Languages Spoken

German, English, French