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 unusual summer heat in Vienna was no deterrent for over 55 international students and volunteers from ELSA Austria to join a workshop last Thursday on Best Representation in Court hosted by KNOETZL as part of the 7th ELSA Summer Law School on Dispute Resolution. Seasoned KNOETZL advocates, Bettina Knoetzl, Emmanuel Kaufman and Natascha Tunkel…

Are you a law student and have a vision of yourself standing suited-up in the courtroom or in meeting room getting your client’s opponent to admit defeat but don’t know how to get there? On August 1st, six high profile lawyers from Baker McKenzie, Baier, Freshfields, PFKA, WilmerHale and KNOETZL’s Emmanuel Kaufman shared their stories…

Ceremonial Hall 1 of the Library and Learning Center at the WU Vienna fell silent as the finalists of the IBA-VIAC CDRC VIENNA Mediation and Negotiation Competition 2018 took the stage last Friday afternoon. Nikita Garg and Kshitija Sharma representing National Law School of India University, Bangalore as well as Victoria Pankratova and Constantine Malyukov of MGIMO-University,…

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…