Offices – Austria
Explore all Offices
Global Reach
Global Reach

Apart from offering expert legal consultancy for local jurisdictions, CMS partners up with you to effectively navigate the complexities of global business and legal environments.

Explore our reach
Insights – Austria
Explore all insights
Expertise
Insights
Insights

CMS lawyers can provide future-facing advice for your business across a variety of specialisms and industries, worldwide.

Explore topics
Offices
Global Reach
Global Reach

Apart from offering expert legal consultancy for local jurisdictions, CMS partners up with you to effectively navigate the complexities of global business and legal environments.

Explore our reach
CMS Austria
Insights
About CMS

Select your region

Robert Keisler
Partner

Robert Keisler

Languages
  • German
  • English
  • Italian
Social media

Robert Keisler is a lawyer specialising in public commercial law. He is a partner at CMS and a member of the Public Procurement Law, Competition Law and Public Law teams.
Keisler’s areas of expertise include advising and representing contractors and clients from a wide range of industries at both national and international level in the field of public procurement and regulatory law. He also has many years of experience in various areas of competition law, including merger control and antitrust law.

Awards & Recognitions
01
  • Quote
    "Robert Keisler is a very competent lawyer with high experience in administrative proceedings as well as public procurement procedures."
    The Legal 500, 2022

Relevant experience

  • Advising a leading waste collection and disposal company on procurement matters in Austrian municipalities.
  • Ongoing advice and representation of an Austrian tourist organisation in public procurement law and regulatory matters, implementation of public procurement procedures.
  • For over 15 years, ongoing advice and representation of a bank support association and its members in regulatory matters relating to financial institutions.
  • Advising an international restaurant chain on regulatory matters.
  • Advising and representing an Austrian advertising distribution company in regulatory matters.
  • Advising and representing banks before the Federal Administrative Court and the Federal Supreme Court regarding tasks of the Austrian Financial Market Authority.
  • Advising a foreign investor as bidder on the sale of a wind farm portfolio in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia regarding contracts for the design, supply, construction and maintenance of wind turbines, grid connection and related infrastructure.
  • Advising and representing a national mint in procurement disputes relating to a security and facilities management bid.
  • Representation of the Austrian Republic at the “ Parliament Renovation” project.
  • Ongoing procurement law advice and representation of a leading international medical devices company.

Publications

  • Das neue Informationsgesetz, in: RFG - Schriftenreihe Recht und Finanzen für Gemeinden, Band 02/2024, Manz Verlag Wien.
  • Robert Keisler has authored numerous specialist books and publications.

Memberships & Roles

  • Austrian Bar Association

Awards & Rankings

  •  The German business newspaper Handelsblatt ranks Robert Keisler among the best lawyers in the field of public commercial law (Best Lawyers Ranking 2020).

Education

  • 1999 - MMag., Law, International Business Administration, University of Vienna