Practice Areas

Six practice areas, shaped by more than two decades of work across Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and the wider EU. The boundaries between them are deliberately porous — most mandates draw on several at once. Each area below sets out the scope, the typical matters, and where the work tends to cross borders.

Corporate & Commercial

Mergers, acquisitions, capital structures, and the everyday law of running a company.

We advise founders, family-owned companies, and larger groups on the full life cycle of a business: formation, shareholder agreements, commercial contracts, financing, and M&A on both sides of the table. Many of our mandates sit at the junction of Austrian, Liechtenstein, and Swiss law — holding structures, intra-group reorganisations, cross-border sales — and we assemble the specialist team each matter requires. Where local counsel is needed elsewhere in the EU, we coordinate and remain the client’s single point of contact.

Real Estate & Assets

Property transactions and the structuring of real-estate and financial holdings.

Our real-estate work spans residential and commercial transactions, due diligence on acquisitions, lease arrangements, and the legal architecture that sits behind cross-border property portfolios — from Liechtenstein foundations and Austrian GmbHs to Swiss holding companies. For private clients with assets spread across jurisdictions, we structure ownership for succession, tax residence, and the long view. Asset protection is not an off-the-shelf product; each structure is built to the client’s actual position and the regulatory realities of each relevant state.

Dispute Resolution

Litigation, arbitration, criminal defence, and traffic law — courtroom and out-of-court.

We represent clients in civil litigation before Austrian courts, in commercial arbitration, and in criminal proceedings — including white-collar matters where corporate and personal liability intersect. Our work also extends to traffic law and administrative proceedings. Most disputes are resolved before trial; when they are not, we prepare them as if they will be. Where judgments need to be enforced across borders, or where parallel proceedings run in multiple jurisdictions, we coordinate with counsel in the relevant forum from the outset.

Employment & Restructuring

Employment matters and insolvency / corporate restructuring.

On the employment side, we draft and negotiate contracts, advise on terminations and severance, and handle disputes before the labour courts. For companies in distress, we work through restructuring options — informal workouts, formal insolvency proceedings under Austrian law, distressed M&A — and advise directors on the liabilities that come with the territory. The two areas sit together because they often arrive together: restructurings produce employment issues, and workforce disputes can be early signals of a company under pressure.

European & Cross-Border

Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and the wider EU — the practice’s natural geography.

This is less a separate practice area than the thread running through all the others. The firm was built on the borders of the DACH region and the EU-EEA interface, and most of our mandates carry a jurisdictional dimension: choice of law, conflicting procedure, treaty and directive interpretation, enforcement of foreign judgments. We advise on the cross-border tax-and-structure question — where does this holding sit, which treaty applies, what does the Liechtenstein route change — and we maintain working relationships with counsel across the relevant markets so clients do not have to.

Modern Sectors

Cryptoassets, IT contracts, and data protection (GDPR / DSGVO).

We advise on the legal frameworks around digital assets — token issuance, custody, exchange relationships, and the Liechtenstein TVTG regime — as well as on the IT and software contracts that sit behind modern operations: licensing, SaaS, service-level agreements, IP assignment. Data-protection work is built into most of this: GDPR / DSGVO compliance, data-processing agreements, response to authority requests, and the less-comfortable conversations after an incident. These are not separate specialisms in a client’s eyes; they are what “doing business online” now requires.

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If your matter touches more than one of these areas — as most do — that is exactly the kind of work the practice was built for. Tell us briefly what it is about and we will respond within one business day.