KNOETZL partner, Bettina Knoetzl, President of Transparency International, Austrian Chapter, the local division of Transparency International, suggests checking out the organization’s new guidelines for whistleblowers. As stated in the introduction of the guide, fighting corruption often requires courageous individuals – so called “whistleblowers” – to step forward to report fraud and thereby largely contribute to…

Integrity, honesty and understanding the client’s needs are at of utmost importance in the daily operations of Patrizia Netal’s arbitration work. In a recent interview with the Ukrainian legal publication Yurydychna Gazeta, the founding member of and partner at KNOETZL shares her views on the legal market in Austria and what made her choose arbitration…

The lawyers and staff of KNOETZL salute the life and mourn the passing of Sergio Marchionne, a giant in automotives and motor sports, an industry we support and with which we are profoundly and passionately involved. His spirit will be missed by and continue to inspire all of us.

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…