
The prestigious European Tax Awards of the International Tax Review’s take place annually and recognise the leading tax professionals around Europe. The firms are judged on key criteria such as size, innovation and complexity of their transactions. After being awarded in 2015 for the work on the BUWOG spin-off with the “European Capital Market Tax Deal of the Year” bpv Hügel is nominated for the “Austrian Tax Firm of the Year” for the third time in a row.
The BAI Bauträger Group has EUR 1.7bn real estate investment volume and a 440,000 sqm development portfolio. BAI was sold by UniCredit Bank Austria to a joint venture of SIGNA and investor group. bpv Hügel advised the management of the target in the course of the transaction.
bpv Hügel, devoted its 19th Vienna Juristengespräche which took place last Friday to “Big Data and its legal challenges”. High-profile speakers talked about the many opportunities and legal risks Big Data may bring about. Also the legal and economic background as well as several cases have been discussed.
bpv BRAUN PARTNERS has advised Unilabs, a leading provider of clinical laboratory testing in Europe, controlled by APAX Partners LLP, in the successful acquisition of laboratories in Czech Republic and Slovakia, from Alpha Medical Group (in the Czech Republic: Aeskulap), the No. 1 provider of laboratory diagnostics in Eastern Europe.
The European Commission exempts Austrian airports at provisions in freight traffic from announcement according to public procurement law. bpv Hügel is pleased with this success.
Dr. Elke Napokoj LL.M. And Dr. Michaela Pelinka LL.M., partners of bpv Hügel Rechtsanwälte in Vienna, have published the rights, obligations and opportunities of venture capital financing in the publication series “Vertragsrecht | Vertragsgestaltung” (“Contract Law | Contract Drafting”) in Linde Verlag on 200 pages, published by Armin Kammel and Gerhard Schummer. An investment with venture capital in companies entails many opportunities but also some risks.
On 8 November, Christian F. Schneider, partner at bpv Hügel Vienna, and Anna Walbert-Satek, attorney-at-law at bpv Hügel Vienna, hold a training on the law of delivery of official documents for the Austrian Association of Leading Municipal Officials, dealing with the hidden obstacles, traps and snags related to that field of law.
The RuSt is Austria´s leading symposium for lawyers and tax experts.
bpv Hügel was mandated by conwert for the squeeze-out of ECO Business-Immobilien AG together with the delisting of the ECO shares.
The course takes place every Friday from 11 March until 17 June 2016 in lecture room 62 of the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna, Juridicum, Schottenbastei 10-16, 1010 Vienna.
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