Home / CMS Lawyers / Alexander Rakosi
Portrait of Alexander Rakosi

Alexander Rakosi

Partner

CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz
Rechtsanwälte GmbH
Gauermanngasse 2
1010 Vienna
Austria
Languages German, English
Corporate/M&A

Alexander Rakosi is a leading expert for Corporate Law/M&A as well as Private Equity and Insolvency & Restructuring. He is a partner at CMS  and a member of the corporate transactions team in Vienna.

He advises leading corporations, investment funds and financial institutions.

After his law studies in Vienna and at the University of Michigan Law School (LL.M. program), Rakosi worked for several years at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York in the areas of M&A, private equity and corporate finance. He is also admitted to the bar in England/Wales and New York.

 

more less

"Aleksander Rakosi has great knowledge and experience. He is capable of comparing positions across the market and has a well-developed strategic way of thinking to forecast outcomes."

Chambers Europe, 2023

"Mr Rakosi coordinated the project with the local teams. His knowledge with regard to transactions is exceptional."

Chambers Europe, 2023

„Great legal and business understanding. He is also thinking outside of the 'legal box' – focused on trying to find solutions and seems to be always available (in particular outside of ordinary office hours)."

The Legal 500 EMEA, 2022

"He is very factual, calm and has a good overview."

Chambers Global, 2023

Memberships & Roles

  • Austrian Bar Association
  • New York State Bar Association
  • Law Society of England and Wales
more less

Awards & Rankings

  • Alexander Rakosi is “highly recommended” and ranked one of the leading practitioners by Chambers, a top M&A practitioner by Best Lawyer/Handelsblatt and has also been featured in the listing of Legal 500 in the field of Corporate and M&A for having a "great understanding of business matters" and has been named a “Leading Individual” by the IFLR and a stand-out lawyer by Acritas. Alexander Rakosi has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.
more less

Education

  • 2005 – LL.M, Law, University of Michigan Law School
  • 2005 – Dr. iur., Law, University of Vienna (with distinction)
  • 2003 – Mag. iur, Law, University of Vienna (with studies completed below the minimum study time)
more less
Insolvency & Restructuring

Alexander Rakosi is a leading expert for insolvency & restructuring as well as private equity and corporate law/M&A. He is a partner at CMS and a member of the corporate transactions team in Vienna.

He advises leading corporations, investment funds and financial institutions.

After his law studies in Vienna and at the University of Michigan Law School (LL.M. program), Rakosi worked for several years at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York in the areas of M&A, private equity and corporate finance. He is also admitted to the bar in England/Wales and New York.

more less

"Mr Rakosi coordinated the project with the local teams. His knowledge with regard to transactions is exceptional."

Chambers Europe, 2023

"Aleksander Rakosi has great knowledge and experience. He is capable of comparing positions across the market and has a well-developed strategic way of thinking to forecast outcomes."

Chambers Europe, 2023

„Great legal and business understanding. He is also thinking outside of the 'legal box' – focused on trying to find solutions and seems to be always available (in particular outside of ordinary office hours)."

The Legal 500 EMEA, 2022

"He is very factual, calm and has a good overview."

Chambers Global, 2023

Memberships & Roles

  • Austrian Bar Association
  • New York State Bar Association
  • Law Society of England and Wales
more less

Awards & Rankings

  • Alexander Rakosi is “highly recommended” and ranked one of the leading practitioners by Chambers, a top M&A practitioner by Best Lawyer/Handelsblatt and has also been featured in the listing of Legal 500 in the field of Corporate and M&A for having a "great understanding of business matters" and has been named a “Leading Individual” by the IFLR and a stand-out lawyer by Acritas. Alexander Rakosi has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.
more less

Education

  • 2005 – LL.M, Law, University of Michigan Law School
  • 2005 – Dr. iur., Law, University of Vienna (with distinction)
  • 2003 – Mag. iur, Law, University of Vienna (with studies completed below the minimum study time)
more less
Private Equity

Alexander Rakosi is a leading expert for private equity as well as insolvency & restructuring and corporate law/M&A. He is a partner at CMS and a member of the corporate transactions team in Vienna.

He advises leading corporations, investment funds and financial institutions.

After his law studies in Vienna and at the University of Michigan Law School (LL.M. program), Rakosi worked for several years at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York in the areas of M&A, private equity and corporate finance. He is also admitted to the bar in England/Wales and New York.

more less

"Mr Rakosi coordinated the project with the local teams. His knowledge with regard to transactions is exceptional."

Chambers Europe, 2023

"Aleksander Rakosi has great knowledge and experience. He is capable of comparing positions across the market and has a well-developed strategic way of thinking to forecast outcomes."

Chambers Europe, 2023

„Great legal and business understanding. He is also thinking outside of the 'legal box' – focused on trying to find solutions and seems to be always available (in particular outside of ordinary office hours)."

The Legal 500 EMEA, 2022

"He is very factual, calm and has a good overview."

Chambers Global, 2023

Memberships & Roles

  • Austrian Bar Association
  • New York State Bar Association
  • Law Society of England and Wales
more less

Awards & Rankings

  • Alexander Rakosi is “highly recommended” and ranked one of the leading practitioners by Chambers, a top M&A practitioner by Best Lawyer/Handelsblatt and has also been featured in the listing of Legal 500 in the field of Corporate and M&A for having a "great understanding of business matters" and has been named a “Leading Individual” by the IFLR and a stand-out lawyer by Acritas. Alexander Rakosi has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.
more less

Education

  • 2005 – LL.M, Law, University of Michigan Law School
  • 2005 – Dr. iur., Law, University of Vienna (with distinction)
  • 2003 – Mag. iur, Law, University of Vienna (with studies completed below the minimum study time)
more less

Feed

10/05/2023
High­lights of the CMS M&A Study 2023 and European M&A mar­ket up­date
The deal­mak­ing land­scape in Europe has been heav­ily im­pacted by eco­nom­ic un­cer­tainty, an un­stable fin­an­cing mar­ket, valu­ation struggles, and in­creased gov­ern­ment­al reg­u­lat­ory pres­sure. Non­ethe­less, we are proud to share that CMS ad­vised on a re­cord-break­ing 509 M&A trans­ac­tions last year.We would like to in­vite you to a break­fast event that we are jointly or­gan­ising with the Fed­er­a­tion of Aus­tri­an In­dus­tries. The event will provide high­lights of the CMS European M&A Study 2023 and the latest M&A trends in Aus­tria & CEE.Present­a­tions will be fol­lowed by an in­ter­view with our guest from Mayr-Mel­nhof Kar­ton AG and net­work­ing.Please find the full agenda be­low and join us for a morn­ing of valu­able in­sights and mean­ing­ful con­nec­tions.We look for­ward to your par­ti­cip­a­tion! *Event lan­guage: Eng­lish & Ger­man
23/03/2023
CMS ad­vises AL­PLA on joint ven­ture with In­den Pharma
Press re­lease - 22.03.2023An in­ter­na­tion­al team of ex­perts from CMS ad­vised the AL­PLA Group on es­tab­lish­ing a joint ven­ture with the Span­ish pack­aging com­pany In­den Pharma. The core CMS Vi­enna team, led by Al­ex­an­der Rakosi, in­cluded Flori­an May­er and Anna Hiegel­sper­ger.   The AL­PLA Group and In­den Pharma have strengthened their pres­ence in the phar­ma­ceut­ic­al mar­ket by found­ing a joint ven­ture. AL­PLA Pharma is con­trib­ut­ing pro­duc­tion sites in Greece and Po­land to the co­oper­a­tion and In­den Pharma two plants in Spain. To­geth­er they plan to set up a site in Ger­many and triple their pro­duc­tion over the next five years. Such cross-bor­der joint ven­ture pro­jects present nu­mer­ous leg­al chal­lenges, whose suc­cess­ful im­ple­ment­a­tion re­quires seam­less co­oper­a­tion between in­ter­na­tion­ally ex­per­i­enced teams from vari­ous prac­tice groups and jur­is­dic­tions. The ex­pert team for the cur­rent AL­PLA deal in­cluded law­yers from CMS of­fices in Aus­tria, Spain, Ger­many and Po­land.Al­ex­an­der Rakosi, Part­ner at CMS Vi­enna and re­spons­ible for the suc­cess­ful con­clu­sion of the joint ven­ture says: "Cross-bor­der tech­no­logy and know-how trans­fer are be­com­ing in­creas­ingly im­port­ant for our cli­ents’ sus­tain­able eco­nom­ic suc­cess. We are there­fore de­lighted to have made a valu­able con­tri­bu­tion to this deal with our glob­al CMS net­work, our in­ter­na­tion­al ex­per­i­ence and our in-depth ex­pert­ise on cross-bor­der deals."The CMS Aus­tria team con­sisted of cor­por­ate/M&A ex­perts Al­ex­an­der Rakosi, Flori­an May­er, Anna Hiegel­sper­ger, Livia Land­sk­ron, Ra­mona Mu­jan­ovic, Re­becca Herl­itz, Rupert Riedl and Han­nah Gi­er­linger. The In­tel­lec­tu­al Prop­erty de­part­ment was rep­res­en­ted by Hans Le­der­er. Di­eter Zand­ler, Vanessa Hor­aceck and Stefan Sottner were deal­ing with an­ti­trust and com­pet­i­tion law is­sues.The CMS Spain team, led by Lu­is Miguel De Di­os and Jorge Per­is Hev­ia, also in­cluded cor­por­ate/M&A ex­perts Ana Vázquez Re­cio, Lucía Signes de Mesa and Saphira Mouza­yek. Víct­or San­juán Mira, María José Ramos Aguilar, Guillermo Gar­cía Diéguez, Irene San Martín Gar­cía and Ri­cardo Gómez-Barreda de la Gándara were also in­volved in the due di­li­gence pro­cess. Tax law ex­pert­ise was provided by Ri­cardo Héct­or and Marta Bur­gos Mur­illo.The CMS Ger­many team in­cluded Malte Bruhns, Laura Christin Stein, Christin Fisc­her and Mor­itz Zie­g­ler.The CMS Po­land team con­sisted of Blazej Zagor­ski, Joanna Bia­loskor­ska and Aleksandra Da­lecka.
06/03/2023
CMS ad­vises Swiss ABB E-mo­bil­ity AG on Series A fin­an­cing round
Press re­lease - 06. March 2023A team of ex­perts at CMS Reich-Rohr­wig Hainz ad­vised the Swiss ABB E-mo­bil­ity AG on the suc­cess­ful Series A fin­an­cing round of the Vi­en­nese Pr­op­Tech start-up PAYUCA. The two trans­ac­tion part­ners have agreed not to dis­close the ex­act amount of the in­vest­ment. Al­ex­an­der Rakosi, Part­ner at CMS in Vi­enna, led the Series A in­vest­ment on be­half of the Swiss ABB E-mo­bil­ity AG: “I am very pleased that we were able to suc­cess­fully sup­port our cli­ent in tak­ing this im­port­ant ex­pan­sion step to­geth­er with a new Aus­tri­an com­pany. In the ini­tial pace-set­ting fin­an­cing rounds es­pe­cially, sound pro­fes­sion­al guid­ance and stra­tegic sup­port are cru­cial to en­able sus­tain­able growth. With our start-up ex­pert­ise, we can provide ap­pro­pri­ate sup­port in all leg­al areas.” The CMS core team around part­ner Al­ex­an­der Rakosi in­cluded law­yer Lisa Ober­lech­ner and as­so­ci­ate Thomas Liegl. Jens Winter, Jo­hannes Scharf, Mar­lene Wim­mer-Nistel­ber­ger, An­dreas Lichten­ber­ger and Shi­ma Baban­ze­deh (due di­li­gence) and Di­eter Zand­ler (com­pet­i­tion law) were also in­volved as ex­perts. ABB E-mo­bil­ity AG is a lead­ing glob­al pro­vider of elec­tric vehicle char­ging solu­tions with more than one mil­lion elec­tric vehicle char­gers in more than 85 mar­kets, over 50,000 DC fast char­gers and more than one mil­lion AC char­gers. PAYUCA be­came known for a smart park­ing app that en­ables people look­ing for park­ing spaces in Vi­enna to find and use free park­ing spaces in private un­der­ground gar­ages quickly and eas­ily. To­geth­er with ABB E-mo­bil­ity, the busi­ness mod­el is to be ex­ten­ded to the di­git­al­isa­tion and elec­tri­fic­a­tion of gar­ages.
03/03/2023
CMS ad­vises DPE on sale of VTU
Press re­lease - 03 March 2023An in­ter­na­tion­al CMS team ad­vised DPE Deutsche Private Equity GmbH (DPE) on all as­pects of the trans­ac­tion. The team in­cluded law­yers from CMS of­fices in Ger­many, Aus­tria, Switzer­land, Italy, Bel­gi­um, Ro­mania and Po­land.   DPE is selling its stake in VTU Group, a lead­ing European pro­vider of en­gin­eer­ing solu­tions for the life sci­ence in­dustry based in Graz, to Altor Funds. The Swedish private equity firm, which in­vests in mid-sized com­pan­ies with the aim of cre­at­ing value through growth ini­ti­at­ives and op­er­a­tion­al im­prove­ments, pre­vailed in a bid­ding pro­cess. The sellers, DPE-owned funds, were ad­vised on all as­pects of the trans­ac­tion by an in­ter­na­tion­al CMS team led by Hendrik Hirsch (CMS Ger­many). The trans­ac­tion is sub­ject to the re­quis­ite ap­provals from the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies. The parties have agreed not to dis­close fur­ther de­tails of the trans­ac­tion.   The CMS Aus­tria team led by Al­ex­an­der Rakosi con­sisted of cor­por­ate/M&A ex­perts Flori­an May­er, Marco Sel­en­ic and Chris­toph Birner. The em­ploy­ment de­part­ment was rep­res­en­ted by Jens Winter and Shi­ma Baban­za­deh. Com­pet­i­tion is­sues were handled by Di­eter Zand­ler. Real es­tate law ex­pert­ise was provided by Mar­i­ella Ka­poun and Max­imili­an Uidl. Mar­lene Wim­mer-Nistel­ber­ger was in charge of pub­lic law is­sues and Thomas As­pal­ter saw to tax is­sues.   Al­ex­an­der Rakosi, part­ner at CMS in Vi­enna and lead­er of the Aus­tri­an team, is en­thu­si­ast­ic about the cross-bor­der co­oper­a­tion: “Once again, we were able to demon­strate our in­ter­na­tion­al ex­pert­ise, es­pe­cially in the private equity area, in a multi-jur­is­dic­tion­al pro­ject – con­grat­u­la­tions to all in­volved!”
24/10/2022
CMS ad­vises ABB on the ac­quis­i­tion of ASKI
Press re­lease - 10th Oc­to­ber 2022
29/09/2022
Boom & Gloom? CMS European M&A Out­look 2023
We are pleased to share with you the 2023 edi­tion of the European M&A Out­look pub­lished by CMS in as­so­ci­ation with Mer­ger­mar­ket.
22/09/2022
CMS M&A-Aus­blick: Boom oder Ein­bruch?
M&A ex­pect­a­tions run high: Al­most all re­spond­ents (88%) are cur­rently con­sid­er­ing M&A.Un­der­val­ued tar­gets and dis­tressed sales to drive activ­ity: The biggest buy-side driver of M&A is ex­pec­ted to be the avail­ab­il­ity of un­der­val­ued deal tar­gets. On the sell-side, dis­tressed situ­ations are ex­pec­ted to be the biggest driver, cited by 26% of re­spond­ents.Valu­ation gaps: seller/buy­er valu­ation gaps are seen as the biggest obstacles to M&A.Cost of fin­an­cing to in­crease: As many as 87% of all re­spond­ents ex­pect fin­an­cing to be tight­er com­pared with 2021 – this in­cludes 45% who ex­pect it to be much more dif­fi­cult.ESG rises up the M&A agenda: Some 90% of re­spond­ents ex­pect ESG scru­tiny in their deal­mak­ing to in­crease over the next three years, com­pared to 72% in 2021’s sur­vey.Des­pite fa­cing a far more dif­fi­cult deal en­vir­on­ment, 73% of deal­makers ex­pect the level of European M&A activ­ity over the next year to in­crease, up from 53% this time last year, ac­cord­ing to the tenth edi­tion of the European M&A Out­look, pub­lished by CMS in as­so­ci­ation with Mer­ger­mar­ket.  The re­port of­fers a com­pre­hens­ive as­sess­ment of deal­mak­ing sen­ti­ment in Europe’s M&A mar­ket. It re­flects the opin­ions of 330 cor­por­ates and private equity firms based in Europe, the Amer­icas and Asia-Pa­cific about their ex­pect­a­tions for the European M&A mar­ket in the year ahead. Louise Wal­lace, Head of the CMS Cor­por­ate/M&A Group, said: "Des­pite on­go­ing geo­pol­it­ic­al un­cer­tainty, rising in­fla­tion and in­terest rates, 2022 has seen M&A largely above or in line with pre-pan­dem­ic levels with of a num­ber of large M&A deals, par­tic­u­larly in the In­dus­tri­als, Tech­no­logy, Real Es­tate and Con­sumer sec­tors.  Fin­an­cial spon­sors re­main very act­ive and cor­por­ate ex­ec­ut­ives con­tin­ue to dis­cuss pos­sible deals, and all are send­ing clear and strong sig­nals that deal-mak­ing activ­ity is likely to con­tin­ue at a high level in the com­ing months." While re­spond­ents’ ex­pect­a­tions may be high, seller/buy­er valu­ation gaps are ex­pec­ted to be the biggest obstacle to M&A as sellers struggle to let go of pre­vi­ous all-time high valu­ations and buy­ers wish to ac­quire re­priced as­sets. They are also keenly aware that bor­row­ing will be more costly and less read­ily ac­cess­ible. No less than 87% of re­spond­ents say they ex­pect fin­an­cing mar­ket con­di­tions to be tough­er than last year, in­clud­ing 45% who ex­pect them to be sig­ni­fic­antly more chal­len­ging. Ham­mer­ing home this real­ity, not a single re­spond­ent be­lieves that fin­an­cing con­di­tions will be easi­er than last year.  A more chal­len­ging busi­ness en­vir­on­ment will have its up­sides how­ever: just over a fifth (21%) of deal­makers cite un­der­val­ued tar­gets as the biggest buy-side driver of activ­ity, while 26% view dis­tressed situ­ations as the biggest driver on the sell-side. The oth­er key fo­cus for re­spond­ents is the rise of en­vir­on­ment­al, so­cial and gov­ernance (ESG) factors. As many as 90% of re­spond­ents an­ti­cip­ate ESG com­ing un­der closer fo­cus in their deal­mak­ing over the next three years, com­pared with 72% in last year’s sur­vey. The pro­por­tion of re­spond­ents ex­pect­ing ESG scru­tiny to sig­ni­fic­antly in­crease has nearly doubled to 48% from 26% 12 months ago. The trend could not be clear­er. Malte Bruhns, Co-Head of the CMS Cor­por­ate/M&A Group, said: " In­vest­ments that in­cor­por­ate ESG met­rics can help you in­vest suc­cess­fully for the long term. In our view, so­ci­ety is un­der­go­ing a paradigm shift to­wards sus­tain­ab­il­ity, and com­pan­ies, in­vestors and gov­ern­ments need to pre­pare for a sig­ni­fic­ant shift of cap­it­al. It is be­com­ing in­creas­ingly im­port­ant for com­pan­ies to im­ple­ment a clear sus­tain­ab­il­ity strategy, with in­sti­tu­tion­al in­vestors hav­ing im­ple­men­ted ESG com­mit­ments in­to their in­vest­ment de­cisions." In terms of sec­tor-level activ­ity, buy­ers are more up­beat on TMT than any oth­er sec­tor, which is jus­ti­fied giv­en that it has con­sist­ently claimed the largest share of M&A value in Europe over the past dec­ade, cor­rel­at­ing with in­creas­ing rates of di­git­al­isa­tion and con­nectiv­ity. A third (33%) of re­spond­ents ex­pect it to see the highest growth over the next 12 months, a fur­ther 35% an­ti­cip­at­ing it to be the sec­tor which de­liv­ers the second-highest growth.
08/07/2022
Pack­aging spe­cial­ist AL­PLA ex­pands in Po­land - CMS ad­vises on cross-bor­der...
With the sup­port of CMS, the AL­PLApharma di­vi­sion fur­ther ex­pands its po­s­i­tion in Cent­ral and East­ern Europe by tak­ing over APON.The in­ter­na­tion­ally act­ive pack­aging com­pany AL­PLA is strength­en­ing the pres­ence of its phar­ma­ceut­ic­al di­vi­sion in Cent­ral and East­ern Europe (CEE) fol­low­ing the ac­quis­i­tion of the Pol­ish com­pany APON. APON was foun­ded in 1985 as a fam­ily busi­ness. Today, around 45 em­ploy­ees pro­duce plastic pack­aging for the phar­ma­ceut­ic­al in­dustry at the Żyrardów site near Warsaw. Among oth­er things, APON man­u­fac­tures primary pack­aging for medi­cines in ac­cord­ance with ISO 15378 un­der clean room con­di­tions. With a staff of around 22,100 at 177 loc­a­tions in 45 coun­tries world­wide, AL­PLA is one of the lead­ing com­pan­ies in the sphere of plastic pack­aging and re­cyc­ling.Al­ex­an­der Rakosi, Part­ner and M&A ex­pert at CMS Vi­enna, is pleased about the clos­ing of the trans­ac­tion: “We are very proud that we have been able to con­tin­ue sup­port­ing the suc­cess­ful AL­PLA Group in the course of its in­ter­na­tion­al ex­pan­sion, this time in the phar­ma­ceut­ic­al sec­tor; re­ly­ing on our in­ter­na­tion­al net­work and our prac­tice groups fully in­teg­rated across na­tion­al bor­ders, we are in a po­s­i­tion to of­fer our cli­ents a cus­tom­ised pack­age of ef­fi­cient, high qual­ity leg­al and trans­ac­tion­al cross-bor­der ad­vice.”The in­ter­na­tion­al CMS team was led by Al­ex­an­der Rakosi. Mar­ie-Christine Lidl, Anna Hiegel­sper­ger and Di­eter Zand­ler from CMS Vi­enna were on the team as well. The team of ex­perts from CMS Warsaw was made up of Błażej Za­gór­ski, Joanna Bia­loskor­ska, Kinga Mo­gil­nicka, Aleksandra Da­lecka, To­masz Pio­trowski, Michał Ser­wa, Ma­ciej Ole­jnik, Ag­nieszka Górecka, Marta Trę­backa, Katar­zyna Łoś, Ma­ciej An­drze­jew­ski and Ka­ro­lina Ter­ech.
27/06/2022
Roh­lik – par­ent com­pany of Gurk­erl.at – re­ceives 220 mil­lion euros of Series...
The new cap­it­al will be used both to fin­ance the on­line gro­cer’s con­tin­ued ex­pan­sion in Ger­many, Italy, Spain and Ro­mania and to drive for­ward tech­nic­al in­nov­a­tion.Foun­ded in 2014, on­line gro­cer Roh­lik, which re­volu­tion­ised gro­cery in Aus­tria with gurk­erl.at, is one of the fast­est grow­ing re­tail­ers in the Czech Re­pub­lic and the en­tire CEE re­gion. Prom­ising de­liv­ery just 90 minutes after an or­der is placed, the com­pany already sup­plies more than one mil­lion cus­tom­ers with more than 17,000 products. Roh­lik now not only of­fers its de­liv­ery ser­vice in Vi­enna (gurk­erl.at), but also in Prague (roh­lik.cz), Bud­apest (kifli.hu), Mu­nich and Frank­furt (knus­pr.de). Soon the ser­vice plans to launch in Ham­burg, Mil­an (sezamo.it), Bucharest (sezamo.ro) and Mad­rid (sezamo.es). The fresh cap­it­al will be used to fin­ance con­tinu­ing ex­pan­sion and drive tech­nic­al in­nov­a­tions.Al­ex­an­der Rakosi, Part­ner in the CMS Vi­enna Cor­por­ate Trans­ac­tions Team, is de­lighted with the deal: “Such a large cross-bor­der trans­ac­tion al­ways raises a num­ber of com­plex leg­al and or­gan­isa­tion­al is­sues that re­quire sound leg­al ex­pert­ise and a well-co­ordin­ated trans­ac­tion team. Our in­ter­na­tion­al net­work en­ables us to provide our cli­ents with com­pre­hens­ive ad­vice and ac­cess to seasoned ex­perts in all coun­tries.”Man­aging Part­ner of CMS in Prague and Brat­is­lava, Helen Rod­well, is also pleased about the suc­cess­ful clos­ing: “We are proud to have been able to ac­com­pany this new fin­an­cing round. Roh­lik’s unique of­fer­ing and first-class ser­vice make it an at­tract­ive growth can­did­ate for in­vestors cau­tious due to the cur­rent eco­nom­ic and geo­pol­it­ic­al cli­mate. As a lead­ing in­ter­na­tion­al law firm – with a sig­ni­fic­ant pres­ence in CEE and many oth­er European coun­tries – CMS is ideally placed to provide leg­al sup­port for this kind of cross-bor­der trans­ac­tion.”The Aus­tri­an CMS leg­al team in Vi­enna in­cluded Al­ex­an­der Rakosi and Flori­an May­er (Cor­por­ate Law/M&A), Anna Hiegel­sper­ger (Cor­por­ate Law/M&A), Jens Winter (Em­ploy­ment & Pen­sions), Sonja Oten­hajmer (Dis­pute Res­ol­u­tion), Mar­i­ella Ka­poun (Real Es­tate & Con­struc­tion) and Max­imili­an Uidl (Real Es­tate & Con­struc­tion). The in­ter­na­tion­al CMS leg­al team was led by ex­per­i­enced CMS part­ner Helen Rod­well (CMS Czech Re­pub­lic) and con­sisted of Dav­id Cran­field (CMS Ro­mania), Štěpán Havránek and Tristan O'­Con­nor (CMS Czech Re­pub­lic); and Mor­itz Kop­ka (CMS UK). Also ad­vising were Flori­an Kami­en­ke and Oliv­er Thurn (CMS Ger­many); Mik­los Boros (CMS Hun­gary); José Lu­is Rodrig­uez and Car­los Peña (CMS Spain); Cristina Ci­omos and Rod­ica Manea (CMS Ro­mania); and Aless­andra Cuni, Sara Tam­marazio and Daniela Murer (CMS Italy). 
31/03/2022
CMS ad­vises Siemens Aus­tria on sale of Aus­tri­an fa­cil­ity man­age­ment busi­ness
Aple­ona ac­quires Siemens Ge­bäu­de­m­an­age­ment und -Ser­vices (SGS). CMS Vi­enna provides com­pre­hens­ive leg­al sup­port to Siemens Aus­tria.   Siemens Aus­tria has agreed to sell Siemens Ge­bäu­de­m­an­age­ment & -Ser­vices G.m.b.H. (SGS) to Aple­ona. The clos­ing of the trans­ac­tion is ex­pec­ted in the third quarter of the fin­an­cial year and is sub­ject to cus­tom­ary an­ti­trust ap­provals. Both com­pan­ies have main­tained a good and close re­la­tion­ship for years. SGS will be fur­ther strengthened by join­ing forces with Aple­ona, res­ult­ing in an ex­pan­ded and im­proved range of ser­vices.   Siemens Aus­tria is be­ing leg­ally ad­vised and sup­por­ted by the Vi­en­nese law firm CMS Reich-Rohr­wig Hainz un­der the lead­er­ship of Al­ex­an­der Rakosi, part­ner in the Cor­por­ate/M&A de­part­ment. The core CMS team fur­ther con­sists of M&A ex­perts Flori­an May­er, Mar­ie-Christine Lidl, Anna Hiegel­sper­ger and Mat­thi­as Emich. Sibylle Novak and Al­ex­an­der Hier­mann deal with tax law is­sues, An­drea Potz, and Jens Winter as­sist on la­bour law top­ics and Bernt Els­ner and Mar­lene Wim­mer-Nistel­ber­ger ad­vise on com­pet­i­tion law. Ad­di­tion­al sup­port dur­ing the course of the trans­ac­tion came from Daniela Ka­rol­lus-Bru­ner, Robert Keisler, Di­eter Zand­ler and Clem­ens Gross­may­er.   Al­ex­an­der Rakosi is pleased with the suc­cess­ful deal sign­ing: “We are proud to be able to sup­port Siemens on this pro­ject with a cross-de­part­ment­al team and con­trib­ute to fur­ther en­trench­ing Siemens as a fo­cused tech­no­logy com­pany in Aus­tria.”   Siemens Ge­bäu­de­m­an­age­ment & -Ser­vices ¬G.m.b.H., based in Vi­enna, is a suc­cess­ful man­u­fac­turer-in­de­pend­ent full-ser­vice pro­vider in the tech­nic­al build­ing¬ man­age­ment¬ sec­tor with around 260 em­ploy­ees. Its cus­tom­ers in­clude in­sti­tu­tions from the health care, cul­ture and edu­ca­tion, trade and lo­gist­ics sec­tors, as well as renowned com­mer­cial en­ter­prises. In the last busi­ness year, it achieved a turnover of around 75 mil­lion euros.
23/02/2022
CMS and KP­MG Leg­al Ad­vise on Grein­er’s Sale of Ex­tru­sion Di­vi­sion to Nim­bus
Pub­lished on CEE Leg­al Mat­ters | Feb­ru­ary 23, 2022 CMS has ad­vised Grein­er on the sale of its ex­tru­sion di­vi­sion, in­clud­ing op­er­a­tion­al as­sets in Aus­tria and the Czech Re­pub­lic, to Nim­bus. KP­MG Leg­al ad­vised Nim­bus.Grein­er is an Aus­tri­an plastics and foam spe­cial­ist com­pany.
02/02/2022
An in­ter­na­tion­al ex­pert team from CMS ad­vises Grein­er AG on the suc­cess­ful...
Shortly be­fore the be­gin­ning of the year, CMS Aus­tria sup­por­ted the Aus­tri­an plastics and foam spe­cial­ist Grein­er AG on the suc­cess­ful sale of its ex­tru­sion di­vi­sion, in­clud­ing the as­so­ci­ated op­er­a­tion­al real es­tate in Nußbach, Up­per Aus­tria, and Trhové Sv­iny, Czech Re­pub­lic. On 21 Decem­ber 2021, the Ger­man Fed­er­al Car­tel Of­fice ap­proved the sale of the Aus­tri­an- based Grein­er Ex­tru­sion Group (GEG) to the Dutch-Ger­man in­vest­ment com­pany Nim­bus – the ma­jor­ity own­er, amongst oth­er things, of bat­ten­feld-cin­cin­nati, one of CEG’s com­pet­it­ors with sub­si­di­ar­ies in Ger­many, Aus­tria, the USA and China. The now af­fil­i­ated com­pan­ies in­tend to ex­ploit syn­er­gies in pur­chas­ing, at least. Oth­er­wise, both en­tit­ies will re­main in­de­pend­ent com­pan­ies with their or­gan­isa­tion­al struc­tures and mar­ket pres­ence. As part of the trans­ac­tion, the ex­perts of the CMS ad­vis­ory team, led by Al­ex­an­der Rakosi, Flori­an May­er and Anna Hiegel­sper­ger, had to nav­ig­ate nu­mer­ous com­plex leg­al top­ics on trans­ac­tion-re­lated as­pects as well as in the areas of real es­tate law and an­ti­trust/com­pet­i­tion law. The in­ter­na­tion­ally ex­per­i­enced team of ex­perts at CMS Aus­tria also in­cluded Di­eter Zand­ler (an­ti­trust law), Vanessa Hor­aceck (com­pet­i­tion law), Hans Le­der­er (trade­mark law), Jo­hannes Hysek (real es­tate law), Mar­i­ella Ka­poun (real es­tate), Sibylle Novak (in­ter­na­tion­al tax law), Thomas As­pal­ter (tax law), Cor­ne­lia Kreuth (M&A), Chris­toph Birner (fin­an­cing) and Al­ex­an­dros Hant­asch (cor­por­ate trans­ac­tions). In ad­di­tion, the Aus­tri­an ad­vis­ory team was also sup­por­ted by col­leagues from oth­er CMS of­fices. The in­ter­na­tion­al CMS team con­sisted of Stepan Hav­ranek (CZ), Eva Bryn­dova (CZ), Mi­chael Mun­zinger (PRC), Lei Shi (PRC), Dipesh Santilale (UK), Sabby Ken­zie (UK), Mar­gaux Deuchler (F), Thomas Hains (F), Blazej Zagor­ski (PL) and Marta Os­owska-Buba (PL). Lead part­ner Al­ex­an­der Rakosi hap­pily notes: “In­ter­na­tion­al trans­ac­tions bring multi-fa­ceted chal­lenges. We are glad to have been able to provide com­pre­hens­ive leg­al ad­vice to the Grein­er Group from pro­ject kick-off to its suc­cess­ful clos­ing across all coun­tries.”