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Show Austrian team Show all peopleAre you a company operating in Austria or looking to do business abroad and are faced with a complex legal issue that cuts across national borders? CMS has 75 lawyers based in Vienna who are specialised in finding solutions for exactly these kinds of legal challenges.
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Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is an attorney-at-law for corporate law/M&A. He is one of the leading lawyers in Austria in the fields of corporate law and commercial law. As such, he is continuously entrusted with the establishment and acquisition of companies, the drafting of contracts, legal opinions in commercial law and representation in contract negotiations.
Further activities of Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is also active in the drafting of articles of association and the representation of shareholders and partners in general meetings and in actions for rescission. He also successfully represents clients in civil litigation and arbitration proceedings in commercial and corporate disputes. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig himself repeatedly acts as arbitrator or chairman of arbitration tribunals.
As a university professor, Johannes Reich-Rohrwig teaches at the Institute for Corporate and Business Law at the University of Vienna and regularly gives lectures on topics such as the drafting of contracts in business law, company agreements, duties and liability of managing directors, members of the management board and supervisory board, compliance, syndicate agreements, corporate law, law and business in China, inheritance law as well as inheritance succession in property and family businesses.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is the author of books on Austrian GmbH law, stock corporation law, GmbH & Co KG and numerous other publications.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig received the “Advocatus'13: - Client Award for Corporate Law, which is presented by the daily newspaper Die Presse, for the most client nominations.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is a partner of CMS in Vienna, university professor at the Institute for Corporate Law and Business Law at the University of Vienna and examiner for the judge examination. He is also co-editor of the business law journal ecolex, which covers corporate law.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is attorney-at-law for dispute resolution (litigation & arbitration). He is one of the leading lawyers in the fields of commercial and corporate law in Austria and the specialist Department for Corporate Law, Litigation and Arbitration at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig represents clients in civil litigation and arbitration proceedings with commercial and corporate law content and in damages actions. He is often appointed arbitrator or chairman of arbitral tribunals.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig gives lectures on disputes between companies and shareholders and on professional litigation options: Actions for rescission, positive declaratory judgment, nullity, injunctive relief—as well as for the enforcement of company and syndicate agreements and minority damages.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is author of the well-known book Das Österreichische GmbH-Recht, author of the largest Austrian share commentary, co-editor of the book Handbuch Generalversammlung der GmbH and many other books and essays.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig received the “Advocatus'13: - Client Award for Corporate Law, which is presented by the daily newspaper Die Presse, for the most client nominations.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is a partner of CMS in Vienna, university professor at the Institute for Corporate Law and Business Law at the University of Vienna and examiner for the judge examination. He is also co-editor of the business law journal ecolex, which covers corporate law.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is attorney-at-law for inheritance law and private clients. He is one of the leading lawyers in Austria in the fields of corporate law, commercial law and inheritance law. He has extensive experience in the field of private and business succession, gifts and wills. His profound knowledge of civil law, commercial law and corporate law enables him to support private clients to plan asset succession (especially in family businesses), in the transfer of company shares and shares, establish and structure of private foundations, trusts and the execute of wills, as well as to establish marriage contracts, inheritance contracts, gifts on death, and succession and maintenance agreements.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig advises clients on the establishment of private foundations and the revision of foundation deeds. He himself is chairman of several private foundations. For his clients, he draws up testamentary dispositions and succession arrangements among living persons and advises on asset transfers. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig represents clients in inheritance disputes and in legitime (forced share) actions.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig gave numerous lectures on the planning of asset succession, in particular on companies, companies and the constitution of gifts, gifts with conditions, wills and succession (including the right to a legitime [forced share]).
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig has published for CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz GmbH the book Erbrecht 2017 - richtig vererben, Fehler vermeiden (Inheritance Law 2017 - Bequeath lawfully, avoiding mistakes) and in 2019 an essay on the topic “Planung der Vermögensnachfolge” (“Planning Asset Succession”) in 2019. He also wrote the civil law and inheritance law part of the book Unternehmensnachfolge (Company Succession) for Bank Austria.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig received the “Advocatus'13: - Client Award for Corporate Law, which is presented by the daily newspaper Die Presse, for the most client nominations.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is a partner of CMS in Vienna, university professor at the Institute for Corporate Law and Business Law at the University of Vienna and examiner for the judge examination. He is also co-editor of the business law journal ecolex, which covers corporate law.
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