Bettina Knoetzl
Partner
“Founder and senior partner Bettina Knoetzl has not only excellent legal and advocacy skills. She is also outstanding in her understanding of business and organizational issues.”
Legal 500 – Dispute Resolution: Commercial Litigation.
“Bettina Knoetzl is super smart and well-versed in the nuances of Austrian law and practice. She is wonderful to work with.”
Legal 500 – Dispute Resolution: White-Collar Crime.
“Bettina Knötzl is a top lawyer in the dispute resolution space who is commended for her experience advising clients on a range of big-ticket litigation mandates, including life sciences, data protection, banking and liability disputes. She also assists with post-M&A disputes and is regularly retained by clients from the technology, pharmaceutical and automotive fields.”
Chambers & Partners – Global & Europe – Litigation.
“Bettina Knötzl is a strategic thinker who is smart, gets it done and is knowledgeable about the issues. She is a strategic genius.”
Chambers & Partners – Global & Europe – White-Collar Crime.
Bettina has over 25 years’ experience handling complex, high-value national and international disputes and is currently ranked as one of the leading litigation, dispute resolution and white collar crime lawyers in Austria.
Bettina specializes in high-stakes international and commercial litigation, focusing on investor protection, liability claims, finance, shareholder, corporate and ultra-high net worth individual disputes, business crime, fraud & asset tracing. She acts as global lead counsel in complex cross border disputes as well as local counsel. Her track record includes remarkable successes for her clients, in several cases up to the Austrian Supreme Court including defense of well-known class action lawsuits.
She represents in banking, insurance and financial cases as well as other industries, such as automotive, energy and pharmaceutical / life science litigation. She also provides legal counsel to significant government institutions. Her achievements in cross-border asset tracing and recovery have been recognized across the globe. With her storied understanding of and experience in cross border work along with her strategic thinking, she is a sought after co-counsel by top tier law firms.
Bettina is a continuing part of the leadership of the Litigation Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), including service as Co-Chair during 2016 through 2017. She is the President of Transparency International (Austrian Chapter), reelected Vice President of the Vienna bar and the exclusive Austrian representative of the ICC-FraudNet. She chairs the 150-year old, elite, Vienna Lawyers’ Association, SOUPIRIUM, lectures at the Austrian Lawyers’ Academy in Dispute Resolution and has been ranked in the top tier for more than a decade in “Litigation” and “White Collar Crime” by both national and leading international directories, including Chambers, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal (including, in 2017, being the first European named “Lawyer of the Year” in the category of Asset Tracing, by Who’s Who Legal).
