White Collar Crime in CEE: Showcasing KNOETZL’s deep bench in the field of white collar crime and compliance, partner Bettina Knoetzl presented, at the 9th Anti Corruption Conference in Prague, the “Gameplan for the Worst Case” to a distinguished and senior group of compliance, audit and legal experts from the whole CEE region, including for…
At the occasion of the 25th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, KNOETZL and ArbitralWomen co-organized a networking breakfast with a panel discussion on the topic “Careers in International Dispute Resolution – Insights and Perspectives”. The panel, which featured Lorraine M. Brennan (Independent Arbitrator), Anna Joubin-Bret (Director of UNCITRAL), Dana MacGrath (Sidley Austin LLP), Christina Täuber (International Legal Department, STRABAG SE) and…
Oliver Loksa, KNOETZL Counsel, addressed legal practitioners and other participants at a conference held on February 22nd through the 24th in Latvia, on the occasion of the 12th Riga VIS pre-Moot on the Battle of Forms under the CISG. The event was organized by Inga Kacevska, MCIArb, Associated Professor, University of Latvia and Attorney at Law, Riga, and the ICC…
KNOETZL is proud to participate, along with other global elite law firms in, and providing the Austria Chapter for, this newly published seminal work on the critically important area of internal corporate investigations. The book, entitled The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Investigations, is the product of a rare, concerted, effort by several of the world’s most distinguished…
KNOETZL thanks our clients and many co-counsel law firms across the globe for reviewing our work and allowing us to further progress our recognition in the legal market. In its newly-released Chambers Europe 2018, this market-leading international directory, ranked our firm among a very small number of Austria’s most highly decorated firms (of any description) by the organization. KNOETZL appreciates…
Kritiker der Frauenquote warnen vor einer Flucht von der Börse und anderen Ausweichmanövern. Doch betroffen sind weniger als 100 Großunternehmen. Seit Jahresanfang gilt auch in Österreich eine verpflichtende Frauenquote von 30 Prozent für den Aufsichtsrat von Unternehmen mit mehr als tausend Beschäftigten sowie börsennotierten Gesellschaften. Schon davor gab es heftige Diskussionen, ob eine Quotenregelung ein…
With reference to our KNOETZL alert of January 19, 2017, we are again reminded that, whenever violations of criminal laws and internal compliance regulations by executives and directors of the company come to light – particularly if they are sizable and systematic – rapid action is key: immediate and extensive internal investigation should result in the implementation of effective…
