With a team of approximately 70 highly qualified legal practitioners, fwp is one of Austria’s leading business law firms. Its major fields of specialisation include banking & finance, corporate/M&A, real estate, infrastructure and procurement law, reorganisation and restructuring. fwp as a full-service law firm operating on a global scale represents mainly Austrian and international private companies but also clients from the public sector.

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• Asset finance
• Banking and finance 
• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Equity
• Competition 
• Corporate and M&A
• Financial restructuring
• Financial services regulatory
• PPP/PFI
• Private equity
• Project development
• Project finance
• Real estate finance
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Structured finance/securitisation

Banking & Finance:

Markus Fellner
markus.fellner@fwp.at 

Gregor Schett 
gregor.schett@fwp.at  

 Recent transactional highlights:

• fwp advised Semper Constantia Privatbank Aktiengesellschaft on the takeover of 100% of its share capital by Liechtensteinische Landesbank AG (LLB)

Corporate / M&A:

Markus Fellner
markus.fellner@fwp.at 

Paul Luiki
paul.luiki@fwp.at 

 Recent transactional highlights:

• fwp advised Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG on the acquisition of roughly 69 per cent of Österreichische Hotel- und Tourismusbank Gesellschaft m.b.H.
• fwp provides advice to the banks involved in a financing agreement, thus paving the way for the takeover of Waagner Biro Bridge Systems AG by a group of investors.

Insolvency law & restructuring:

Markus Fellner
markus.fellner@fwp.at 

Florian Kranebitter
florian.kranebitter@fwp.at 

 Recent transactional highlights:

• fwp achieves significant restructuring milestone for Steinhoff
• fwp advises banks of Waagner-Biro group

PPP/PFI:
Michael Hecht
michael.hecht@fwp.at

Recent transactional highlights:

• fwp successfully represents ÖBB Infrastruktur with Semmering tunnel project.

Capital markets:

Paul Luiki
Paul.luiki@fwp.at

Markus Fellner
markus.fellner@fwp.at 

• Banking
• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services
• Energy
• Financial services
• Food and beverage
• Gaming
• Government and public policy
• Healthcare
• Insurance
• Oil and gas
• Real estate
• Social infrastructure
• Tech and telecoms
• Transport