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Brandl & Talos

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Austria

Capital markets

Brandl & Talos

Brandl & Talos is respected within the market for its capital markets regulatory expertise, but the firm has been active on the transactional side, most notably for WEB Windenergie on its €10 million bond, the first issued by an Austrian independent wind energy provider. The deal was led by Thomas Talos and new partner Christian Thaler, who joined the firm from DLA Piper Weiss-Tessbach in 2010.... [more]

Mariahilfer Strasse 116
1070 Vienna
Austria

Tel: +43 1 522 5700
Fax: +43 1 522 5701
Email: office@btp.at
Web: www.btp.at

LAWYERS:
Ernst Brandl, Thomas Talos, Christopher Schrank, Christian Lenz, Christian Thaler, Gerald Ruhri, Roman Rericha.

Firm profile:

Brandl & Talos is a boutique law firm specializing in capital markets law, banking & finance and complex international M&A transactions. With its team of lawyers trained at leading U.S. law and business schools and top international law firms, Brandl & Talos has built an outstanding reputation in its areas of expertise. The firm has advised innovative start-ups from their first venture capital financing to successful IPOs as well as clients in some of the largest recent M&A transactions in Austria, and assisted Austria's leading banks and financial service institutions with challenges during the financial crisis. The firm's lawyers bring years of experience, not only in the private sector but also as members of regulatory agencies, extraordinary skills, and a proven track record to the table, when it comes to offer individual service to their clients.

CLIENTELE:
Brandl & Talos is advising leading banks, financial service providers, investment fund companies, national and international venture capital funds and publicly listed companies (such as bwin.com). Recent engagements include the defence of a leading hedge fund company against the Austrian Financial Market Authority before the Austrian Constitutional Court, the structuring of a corporate bond for a major Austrian retailer, advising bwin.com in connection with the acquisition of the leading Italian online poker operator Gioco Digitale SpA for cash and shares (transaction value: EUR 110 million) and on its recently completed merger with PartyGaming plc which created the world's biggest online gaming company (transaction value: EUR 1.7 billion). Further, Brandl & Talos advised WEB Windenergie AG, Austria's largest independent provider of wind energy, on offering of the first corporate bond in the industry as well as on a simultaneous rights offering.

Areas of practice:

• Capital Markets
• Banking and Finance
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Litigation
• Restructuring
• White-Collar Crime



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