GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - Austria
Guido Jestädt of BAWAG P.S.K.
Guido Jestädt acts as General Counsel at BAWAG, the Viennaheadquartered bank with subsidiaries in Germany, which he joined in 2012. He is a highly-regarded lawyer, praised for his solid academic track record, with degrees from the University of Würzburg and Oxford, and a PhD obtained from the University of Konstanz.
Since joining the company he has been involved in a wide variety of complex matters, continuing to rise in prominence as a leading in-house counsel within the banking sector. He regularly acts and supervises his team and external counsel on M&A, regulatory issues, strategic partnerships and capital markets transactions as well as disputes.
Jestädt has been very active in M&A and capital markets in past years, demonstrating his skill and technical knowledge, with BAWAG’s Group successful 2017 IPO on the Vienna Stock Exchange as a key piece of work, also worth noting his involvement in the bank’s takeover of Stuttgart-based Südwestbank.