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Peter Huber is a Corporate/M&A lawyer. He is a partner and head of the CMS Austria international transaction team and has decades of professional experience in corporate transactions, including more than four years at leading investment banks. His areas of expertise are M&A (including privatisations and public takeovers) and corporate law (including corporate governance) in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe. 
Peter Huber advises numerous large Austrian companies and major shareholders as well as shareholder groups on corporate transactions, restructurings, shareholder agreements and governance structures as well as on legal issues arising from shareholder activism. He also advises large private equity firms on investments and exits.
He has authored numerous publications in the field of corporate and takeover law as well as the leading commentary on the Austrian Takeover Act.

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    "I appreciate that Peter Huber is readily available to provide advice, often at short notice."
    Chambers Europe 2025
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    "Peter Huber is very experienced and knowledgeable of key commercial terms and negotiation tactics. He also has a high level of availability and is pleasant to work with."
    Chambers Europe 2025
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    "Peter Huber is very on point. He is also proactive in providing a different point of view on certain things, suggesting solutions which are not at the top of our minds."
    Chambers Europe 2025
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    "I have learned to fully trust Peter Huber to offer the best possible answer to the many complex questions we have put to him and his team."
    Chambers Europe 2025
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    "He gives high-level reasoning and is nearly always reachable."
    Chambers Europe, 2024
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    „He gives high-level reasoning and is nearly always reachable.“
    Client feedback, Chambers Global 2024
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    "He is very known and very well established."
    Chambers Europe, 2023
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    "He is very known and very well established."
    Chambers Global, 2023
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    „Sehr guter M&A-Anwalt.“
    JUVE, 2022
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    „Einer der besten M&A-Anwälte Österreichs, sehr erfahren.“
    JUVE, 2016

Publications

  • Huber/Matt, Zur Änderung des Börsegesetzes, ecolex 2016, 139.
  • Huber (Hrsg), Übernahmegesetz Kommentar2 (LexisNexis, 2016).
  • Huber/Kmec/Simo, The European Stock Corporation in Slovakia, in Jannott/Frodermann (Hrsg), Handbook of the European Stock Corporation – Societas Europaea2 (2014).
  • Chapter 2.3: Austria, in Kurney/Whalley (Hrsg), International Business Acquisitions: Major Legal Issues and Due Diligence4 (2014).
  • Gedanken zum Sanierungsprivileg im österreichischen Übernahmerecht, in Hainz/Krejci (Hrsg), Festschrift Johannes Reich-Rohrwig (Manz, 2014).
  • Überlegungen zum gemeinsamen Vorgehen, GesRZ 2010, 13.

Entscheidungsbesprechungen:

  • Anmerkung zum Obersten Gerichtshof (OGH), 9.9.2015, 6 Ob 97/15f, GesRZ 2015, 401.
  • Anmerkung zum Obersten Gerichtshof (OGH), 13.3.2014, 6 Ob 37/14f, GesRZ 2014, 257.

Memberships & Roles

  • Austrian Bar Association
  • International Bar Association

Awards & Rankings

  • Hall of Fame, Commercial, Corporate and M&A, The Legal 500 EMEA, 2024
  • Peter Huber is named by Chambers Global and Chambers Europe as a leading expert (Band 1) in corporate law and M&A in Austria and South-Eastern Europe and has also received top rankings in other directories and publications.
  • The German business newspaper Handelsblatt ranks Huber among the best lawyers in banking and finance law, corporate law and mergers and acquisitions (Best Lawyers Ranking 2020).

Education

  • 1988 – LL.M., Yale Law School, New Haven
  • 1987 – Dr. iur., Law, University of Vienna
  • 1987 – Mag. rer. soc. oec., Business Administration, University of Vienna
  • 1985 – Mag. iur., Law, University of Vienna
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