The new Austrian Investment Control Act

14 August 2020

Direct investments from third countries are increasingly viewed critically. Politicallythe “sell-out” of technology is feared. On 25 July 2020, the Federal Act on the Control of Foreign Direct Investments (“Investment Control Act – ICA”) came into force.

bpv Legal | Romania: bpv GRIGORESCU ȘTEFĂNICĂ assisted Romanian start-up INNOSHIP on its Seed financing from venture capital fund GapMinder VC

13 August 2020

We are pleased to announce that a bpv GRIGORESCU STEFANICA team including Catalin Grigorescu, partner and head of technology practice, and Radu Zmaranda, CIPP/E, associate, advised Innoship Technology and its founders on their seed financing round from GapMinder VC. This builds upon our firm’s work for the founding team since the inception of the business in 2019.

ECJ ruling on data transfer to the USA

20 July 2020

As is well known, data may only be transferred to the USA if the requirements of Chapter V of the GDPR are fulfilled, thus essentially ensuring that the data enjoy the same fundamental protection afforded at European level.

bpv Huegel advises heidelpay Group on the acquisition of Paysafe’s Pay Later business

15. July 2020

bpv Huegel advised heidelpay Group, a German technology company for international payments, with KKR as investor, on the acquisition of the Paysafe Group’s Pay Later business (payolution GmbH).

bpv Huegel advised IMMOFINANZ on a combined share placement and the first-to-market issue of mandatory convertible notes

14 July 2020

The total issue amounts to approximately EUR 356 million. In this successful capital measure, IMMOFINANZ AG issued the first mandatory convertible notes of an Austrian issuer.

bpv Huegel is top ranked at Chambers High Net Worth

09 July 2020

We are glad to announce that bpv Huegel received a top recommendation (Band 2) in Chambers High Net Worth 2020 guide! Congratulations to our Private Wealth-Team Verena Hügel-Karpeles and Florian Plattner for the individual ranking. The bpv Huegel team is delighted about the recognition: “Expert knowledge, I would not go to anyone else concerning trusts. […]

LEXOLOGY Getting the Deal Through: Shareholder Activism & Engagement 2020

07 July 2020

Guide on Shareholder Activism & Engagement: bpv Huegel partner Christoph Nauer, Daniel Reiter (attorney at law) and Barbara Valente (associate), contributed the Austrian Chapter in the 2020 edition of Lexology Getting the Deal Through.

bpv Hügel wird als „Kanzlei des Jahres Österreich“ in Kartell- und Wettbewerbsrecht ausgezeichnet

29 June 2020

bpv Hügel kann sich über eine Reihe von Auszeichnungen im Best Lawyer/Handelsblatt-Ranking freuen. Top Bewertungen von Partnern, die zu den besten Anwälten 2020 zählen.

Chambers Tax Controversy 2020 Guide: Austrian Chapter written by bpv Huegel Tax-Team

24 June 2020

bpv Huegel’s tax team has contributed to the Chambers and Partners Tax Controversy 2020 Guide again.

bpv Huegel advised Raiffeisen Informatik on another successful placement of SoftwareONE shares

22 June 2020

bpv Huegel advised Raiffeisen Informatik on further sale of shares in SoftwareONE Holding AG placed in an over-night accelerated bookbuilding process (ABB). The shareholders KKR, Raiffeisen Informatik and the heirs of Patrick Winter sold a total of 17,000,000 shares corresponding to approx. 11% of the SoftwareONE share capital, at a price of CHF 22.50 per share for total proceeds of approximately CHF 380 million.