Albert Birkner

Managing Partner Albert Birkner is Head of Department of Takeovers & Antitrust. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, public takeovers, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures and trusts with a special focus on Austria and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE/SEE). He has developed particular expertise in the fields of structuring and implementation of corporate transactions, takeover mechanics and the modelling of co-ownership structures. Albert has expanded his expertise to structuring and maintenance of private trusts and to the implementation of trust structures within M&A transactions. Albert has been and is a lead partner on many prominent matters for several years already. Albert is also an author and regular contributor of a number of publications. He is frequently named as a leading individual within other guides, journals, publications, etc. and often referred to as an expert within his field.

• RHI Magnesita with regard to the advice in connection with the acquisition of shareholdings in several Seven Refractories subsidiaries operating in Europe, India and US and in connection with the voluntary partial cash offer for 29.9% of the issued and outstanding share capital of RHI Magnesita by Ignite Luxembourg Holdings S.à r.l., a wholly-owned subsidiary of a number of limited partnerships which are indirectly managed by Rhône Holdings VI L.L.C. ("Rhône")
• Agri Europe Cyprus Limited in connection with the intended acquisition of shares in the listed Addiko Bank AG
• Advice of Saubermacher Dienstleistungs AG in 2023 on the sale of the leading lithiumion battery recycler Redux Recycling GmbH to Redwood Materials, a renowned sustainable materials company founded by JB Straubel, co-founder of Tesla
• Advice of the MK Group in the acquisition of Sberbank Europe AG’s banks in SEE that finally was rendered obsolete in view of regulatory asset transfers as a consequence of Russia's invasion in the Ukraine

• Austria
• Czech Republic

• Vienna Bar Association
• Czech Bar Association
• International Bar Association
• Wiener Advokatengesellschaft UNION

• University of Vienna (Mag. iur. 1992, Dr. iur. 1995)
• University of Cambridge (LL.M. 1995)