Sebastian is a member of bpv Huegel’s Competition and Antitrust and Dispute Resolution Practice Groups.

He advises clients on Austrian and European competition law as well as on Austrian Foreign Direct Investment control rules, on regulatory matters in network industries and on complex disputes in civil litigation and arbitrations.

Recent work highlights (including matters prior to joining bpv Hügel)

  • Austrian merger control advice for SAP’s € 7 billion acquisition of Qualtrics
  • Merger control advice to Scandinavian industrial client relating to a parallel public takeover battle for corporate control
  • FDI-representation of a US investor in relation to a multi-billion acquisition of gsm/radio towers in Austria;
  • FDI-representation of a foreign investor in relation to the intended multi-million acquisition of an Austrian fertilizer business
  • Advise US-American tech company on competition law questions at the intersection with copyright law
  • Successful appeal to the Austrian Supreme Cartel Court in competition law proceedings initiated by Austrian Energy-Regulator, E-Control, against a large natural gas exporter
  • Representation of a large natural gas exporter relating to gas price adaptions under ICC Rules
  • Arbitration relating to long-term gas contracts in Austria under ICC Rules
  • Advise US-American public industrial company in stock-benefit claw-back proceedings against former manager under US law in Austria
  • Advise Chinese medical tech company in patent and copyright litigation in Austria

Memberships
Vienna bar, Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht, Young Civil Law Scholars Society, Young Austrian Arbitration Practicioners (YAAP)

Experience and Education
Jones Day, Frankfurt (2018-2021)
University of Vienna, Lecturer, Private Law Theory (since 2017)
Competition law team, Austrian firm (2017-2018)
Clerkship Supreme Court of Austria (2015)
Research and Teaching Assistant University of Vienna, Department of Civil Law (2012-2016)
LL.M. (Yale Law School 2017, Fulbright Scholarship)
Dr.iur. (University of Vienna 2017)
Mag.iur (University of Vienna 2012, Erasmus: Université Paris 2, Panthéon-Assas 2010)

Languages
German, English

Selected Publications

2022
2019
2015
2014