Christian Herbst

Christian Herbst has been a partner at Schoenherr since 1990. Christian’s main areas of practice are m&a, public takeovers, private equity and corporate finance transactions. Christian enjoys an excellent reputation in representing international and Austrian blue-chip corporations in (cross-border) transactional work. Christian's transactional advisory has covered a wide range of economic sectors and industries over the years, including financial services, energy and telecoms. Christian, a member of the Vienna Bar, graduated from Salzburg University (Dr. iur. 1982), the School of Advanced International Studies, JHU-Bologna (Diploma 1983), and Harvard Law School (LLM. 1984). Christian is an international business transactions lecturer at the University for Economics and Business in Vienna, has published on issues relating to m&a, takeovers and merger control, and is a speaker at various legal seminars and conferences.

• Advised Austrian HS Timber Group on the acquisition of Luvian Saha Oy, one of the largest private sawmills in Finland, from private owners;
• Advised Austrian HS Timber Group and Blue Minds on the sale of Interfloat Corporation and GMB Glasmanufaktur Brandenburg GmbH to Borosil Renewables Ltd, listed on the Indian Stock Exchange;
• Advised P&I Personal & Informatik GmbH on the acquisition of 100 % of the shares in VRZ Informatik Gesellschaft mbH (Dornbirn) and its sister mpany ThinkCreateAct AG (Switzerland).

• M&A
• Private equit

• Energy
• Financial services
• Tech and telecoms

• IBA (Co-Chair of the Corporate & M&A Law Committee of the International Bar Association 2015-2016)
• UIA

• LL.M., Harvard University (1984)
• Diploma, Johns Hopkins University (1983)
• Dr. Iur., University of Salzburg (1982)