Languages
- English
- German
Social media
Marlene Wimmer-Nistelberger is an attorney-at-law and partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz in Vienna, specialising in public law. She has extensive experience in trade law, building law, environmental law, water law and waste management law, and advises national and international companies on all aspects of facility and environmental permitting law.
A particular focus lies in representing clients in administrative permitting proceedings and administrative penalty proceedings and before administrative courts and supreme courts. In addition, she regularly supports complex corporate transactions with regulatory aspects, particularly in the context of M&A and infrastructure projects.
Marlene Wimmer-Nistelberger is the author of numerous specialist publications, including the WEKA publication “Informations- und Geheimhaltungspflichten” (2025), and gives regular lectures on public law. She studied law at the University of Vienna and completed an LL.M. at Queen Mary University of London (top of her class). She passed the bar exam with distinction.
Relevant experience
Publications
Memberships & Roles
Education
Marlene Wimmer-Nistelberger is an attorney-at-law and partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz in Vienna with aparticular focus on EU State Aid Law.
She advises funding bodies on the design and implementation of funding programs, supports public sector entities in carrying out activities in compliance with state aid rules, and assists private companies in the context of grant awards or recovery proceedings.
She studied law at the University of Vienna and completed an LL.M. at Queen Mary University of London, specialising in EU State Aid Law (top of her class). She passed the bar exam with distinction.
Marlene Wimmer-Nistelberger is the author of numerous publications, including the chapter on “CISAF’s De-Risking Measures” in the “Yearbook on State Aid Law” (Verlag Österreich, 2026), an article on “Recovery of Subsidies: Requirements, Limits, and Legally Sound Procedures in Cases of Contract Breaches” for the Austrian Journal of State Aid Law (to be published in fall 2026) and the WEKA publication “Informations- und Geheimhaltungspflichten” (2025). She gives regular lectures on EU state aid law, e.g. atthe KDZ Seminar (2026) and the ARS Seminar “State AidLaw in Practice” (2026).
Relevant experience
Publications
Memberships & Roles
Education
Marlene Wimmer-Nistelberger is a partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz in Vienna. She specialises in all public law and state aid aspects of energy projects, from photovoltaics to wind power, hydropower and hydrogen.
Her expertise covers permitting procedures in trade law, building law and environmental law as well as representation in administrative court proceedings, including before the supreme courts. She also advises on EU State Aid law, particularly in relation to funding programs in the energy sector.
Marlene Wimmer-Nistelberger is the author of numerous publications, including the chapter on “CISAF’s De-Risking Measures” in the “Yearbook on State Aid Law” (Verlag Österreich, 2026) and an article on “Recovery of Subsidies: Requirements, Limits, and Legally Sound Procedures in Cases of Contract Breaches” for the Austrian Journal of State Aid Law (to be published in fall 2026). She gives regular lectures, most recently at the Energy Community Secretariat on “State Aid in Energy: Applicable Frameworks and examples” and at the Austrian Retail Association on the new EU Packaging Regulation.
She studied law at the University of Vienna and completed an LL.M. at Queen Mary University of London (top of her class). She passed the bar exam with distinction.
