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Oliver Werner

Partner
Managing Partner at CMS Bratislava

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Oliver Werner

Partner
Managing Partner at CMS Bratislava

Contact
CMS Bratislava
Staromestská 3
811 03 Bratislava
Slovakia
CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz
Rechtsanwälte GmbH
Gauermanngasse 2
1010 Vienna
Austria
Languages German, English, French, Spanish

Oliver Werner has been a partner at CMS in Vienna since 2020 and heads the CMS Slovakia office in Bratislava as Managing Partner. As a lawyer, he works in the areas of corporate law/M&A and compliance. He is admitted to the bar in both Austria and Slovakia.

In addition to his multinational transactions (M&A) specialism, Werner advises companies with business activities in several jurisdictions on corporate law issues, creates tailor-made compliance systems and advises on money laundering prevention. He also has several years of experience in internal investigations and assists crisis-hit companies in corruption cases. 
Werner is co-head of the Compliance Group as well as head of the Corporate Group's legal staff and thus a promoter of CMS’s talent pool.

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Memberships & Roles

  • Austrian Bar Association
  • Slovenská advokátska komora (Slovak Bar Association )
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Publications

  • Compliance Outsourcing – Faktische Möglichkeiten und rechtliche Grenzen, Compliance Solutions Guide 2019
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Education

  • 2008 - Dr. iur., Law, University of Vienna 
  • 2003 - Mag. iur., Law, University of Vienna
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Expertise

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16/05/2023
Can­nabis law and le­gis­la­tion in Slov­akia
Med­ic­al use It is not per­mit­ted to grow, im­port or sell can­nabis for med­ic­al use in Slov­akia. However, it is now per­mit­ted to grow can­nabis for the re­search pur­poses, sub­ject to ap­prov­al gran­ted by the...
Expert Guide Life Sciences & Healthcare
08/11/2022
Data pro­tec­tion and cy­ber­se­cur­ity laws in Slov­akia
Data pro­tec­tion 1. Loc­al data pro­tec­tion laws and scope Act no. 18/2018 Coll. on per­son­al data pro­tec­tion and amend­ing and sup­ple­ment­ing cer­tain Act­s­This Act im­ple­ments the data pro­tec­tion stand­ards...
Expert Guide TMC - Technology, Media & Communications
Comparable
24/11/2021
Hy­dro­gen law, reg­u­la­tions & strategy in Slov­akia
1. Cur­rent State of Hy­dro­gen Pro­jects in Slov­akia Whilst hy­dro­gen pro­jects, hy­dro­gen trans­port and the de­vel­op­ment of re­lated in­fra­struc­ture in Slov­akia are in early stages of de­vel­op­ment, there is...
Expert Guide Energy & Climate Change
16/08/2021
Data pro­tec­tion and se­cur­ity
Ex­pert leg­al ad­visers
Brochures
23/02/2021
CMS Guide to Anti-Bribery and Cor­rup­tion Laws
We are de­lighted to present the sixth edi­tion of the CMS Guide to Anti-Bribery and Cor­rup­tion Laws
Publication
18/09/2020
CMS Brat­is­lava: New Part­ners
Oliv­er Wern­er takes over from Peter Šimo and new part­ner Soňa Hanková is join­ing the team of CMS Brat­is­lava.  The team of CMS Brat­is­lava was re­in­forced at the part­ner level. Soňa Hanková joined...
Press releases
21/07/2020
Gov­ern­ment meas­ures to sup­port com­pan­ies in Slov­akia af­fected by COV­ID-19
Fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of the first round of gov­ern­ment sub­sidies for com­pan­ies af­fected by the COV­ID-19 crisis, the second round of state aid is now be­ing im­ple­men­ted. The Slov­ak gov­ern­ment or­gan­isa­tion...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
10/06/2020
Cov­id-19 busi­ness crim­in­al law and oth­er is­sues in Aus­tria
1. Could your busi­ness face crim­in­al (or ad­min­is­trat­ive) li­ab­il­ity for ex­pos­ure or risk of ex­pos­ure to COV­ID-19 to (1) staff or (2) busi­ness part­ners and the pub­lic, un­der ex­ist­ing laws or new meas­ures...
Expert Guide Dispute Resolution