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Horst Ebhardt is a Partner in the Vienna office of Kinstellar and a member of the Corporate/M&A service line.
Horst brings 25 years of experience in private practice, specialising in complex cross-border M&A, privatisations, and restructuring transactions across Austria and the CEE/SEE region. He provides strategic advice to companies across various sectors, with a strong focus on financial institutions, life sciences, and private equity. Over the past 12 years, Horst has played a key role in some of the most notable M&A and private equity deals involving Austrian and Central European targets.
He has also been advising companies from a broad range of sectors—with a particular focus on financial institutions, life sciences and private equity—on corporate finance and governance matters.
Partner, Wolf Theiss, since 1997; admitted in Austria, since 1994; Lecturer at the University of Vienna (M&A transactions).
Vienna Bar Association; International Bar Association; American Bar Association.
Born 1961 in Graz, Austria; University of Graz, (Dr. iur. 1984); London School of Economics and Political Science, (LL.M. 1986).
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Experienced practitioner Horst Ebhardt is appreciated for his strength in large-scale, cross-border sales and acquisitions across the financial services and chemicals sectors. He is also well recognised for his ability to assist with matters throughout Central & Eastern Europe. He founded the Austrian office of Kinstellar in January 2025 after having worked at Wolf Theiss.
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I would recommend working with Horst Ebhardt.
Horst Ebhardt proved himself to be a very experienced and sophisticated lawyer, with great legal skills and commercial and business acumen.
He is professional, charismatic and friendly. He has in-depth industry knowledge and creates a very nice atmosphere in his team too, which is important to us.
Horst Ebhardt has a high level of professionalism, decades of experience, solid knowledge of various subjects on top of legal matters and great emotional intelligence and leadership skills.
Horst Ebhardt is great and professional, combining both experience and great technical knowledge with excellent managerial skills.