Markus Piuk

Markus Piuk is partner at Schoenherr and has more than 20 years of experience as a lawyer, mainly focusing on corporate/m&a and infrastructure (including energy) related work in South East Europe. He specialises in capital markets, m&a, finance, tax law and compliance & white collar crime. Within Schoenherr, he has had a major contribution to the development of Schoenherr’s network in South East. Markus has acted frequently for clients in the oil and gas, food/non-food retail and automotive industry, as well as the financial industry, advising on their foreign direct investment in SEE. He also advises local businesses in this region on domestic and outbound investments. Markus holds degrees from the University of Vienna (Mag. iur.), the University of Virginia (LL.M.) and ESADE Business School in Barcelona (MBA). He is admitted to the bar in Austria, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria and Croatia. Markus is a frequent speaker at conferences regarding investments in South East Europe. Markus has published a number of articles on the laws of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and the Republic of Moldova in Austrian and international legal journals.

• Advised Elevator Ventures, the corporate venture capital entity of Raiffeisen Bank International on leading a seed round investment in the Romanian fintech start-up Finqware;
• Advised the owners of the Austrian CPaaS companies and their WebSMS brands on selling WebSMS to Norwegian LINK Mobility Holding.

• Capital markets: Equity
• M&A
• Private equity

• Consumer goods and services
• Energy
• Forestry
• Media
• Oil and gas

• ESADE Business School, Barcelona/Spain (MBA 2004)
• University of Virginia, Virginia/USA (LL.M. 2000)
• University of Vienna, Vienna/Austria (Mag.iur. 1998)
• Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna/Italy (Scholarship 1997)