Who’s Who Legal, a publication by Law Business Research Ltd, identifying more than 24,000 international leading private practice lawyers, has again named KNOETZL arbitration partners Florian Haugeneder and Emmanuel Kaufman as leading construction arbitration practitioners in Austria. Florian Haugeneder “continues to impress” with his “first class work in arbitration proceedings” on behalf of high-profile construction…

The recent announcement that the immunity of FPÖ politician Christian Leyroutz has been suspended shows that neither politicians nor lawyers or even politicians who are lawyers are protected from prosecution. The case originated in 2012, when Leyroutz received a consultancy fee from a publicly owned company in the amount of €130,000 for negotiations on the…

On 18 June 2018, KNOETZL partners Florian Haugeneder, Patrizia Netal and Emmanuel Kaufman together with Katarina Obradović Baklaja and Jovan Nikčević from the Belgrade law firm Baklaja Igrić Tintor Law office held a seminar on construction arbitration and Dispute Adjudication Board (DAB) proceedings under the framework of the FIDIC standard form of contracts. KNOETZL’s experts…

  CEE Legal,  a well-regarded professional publication covering legal affairs, law practice news and developments in and throughout the CEE Region, caught up with KNOETZL Managing Partner, Tim Pfister for an interview in its regular feature “Expat on the Market”. The publisher was curious about how Tim came to the CEE legal market centered in…

Director’s liability is a recurring issue in both the Austrian and German courts. One reason is that, when a company goes into bankruptcy, its receivers and creditors tend to look for alternative sources of funds, especially when the directors are covered by D&O Insurance. In this Austrian case, a buyer of equipment from a company that…