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.

Level Europe GmbH applies for insolvency with bpv Huegel

22 June 2020

Level Europe GmbH, Austrian low-cost airline, filed for the opening of insolvency proceedings at the Regional Court of Korneuburg last Friday. bpv Huegel advises Level Europe as debtor representative.

bpv Huegel advised dogado on the merger with easyname, the second largest hosting provider in Austria

8 June 2020

dogado GmbH, eine Tochtergesellschaft von European Directories, ein Portfoliounternehmen von Triton, hat easyname GmbH erworben.

Guide on Remuneration Policy – Say-on-Pay on Executive Remuneration in Austria

28 May 2020

Say-on-pay put a spotlight on executive remuneration of listed companies. The Guide shall support the members of the supervisory board and the members of a remuneration committee to comply with their duties imposed upon them.

Webinar | The Latest on Competition Law in the COVID-19 Context

28 May 2020

On 28 May 2020, our partner Christian F. Schneider will speak on the Competition law related UIA webinar about State aid implications of COVID-19.

Webinar | Four weeks experience with the virtual shareholders’ meeting – first experiences

27 May 2020

Christoph Nauer, corporate and capital markets partner at bpv Huegel, together with notary Rupert Brix and Andreas Böcskör, Investor Relations at Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG, present “Four weeks of experience with virtual shareholders’ meeting” at the Business Circle Webinar on 27 May 2020.

COVID-19 Legal Update: Court proceedings via video conference

25 May 2020

According to the previous “Corona legal situation”, oral hearings were only to be held if, after careful consideration of all circumstances, the continuation of the proceedings appeared to be urgently necessary and the public interest in preventing the dissemination of COVID-19 did not prevail. Furthermore, restrictions apply to the operation of the court. In order to avoid a backlog of negotiations, the possibility of holding hearings via video conference has now been established:

bpv Huegel advised Raiffeisen Informatik on the placement of SoftwareONE shares in an accelerated bookbuilding process

19 May 2020

bpv Huegel advised Raiffeisen Informatik on the sale of shares in SoftwareONE Holding AG placed in an over-night accelerated bookbuilding process.

Breakfast Briefing (Webinar): „Online-Werbung in der Krise” – Status-Quo und Neuigkeiten zur ePrivacy-Verordnung

14 Mai 2020

Covid-19 hat dazu geführt, dass Alerts, Newsletter und E-Mail-Werbung noch mehr an Bedeutung gewinnen als dies bereits bisher der Fall war. Ziel ist es, Kunden auf die eigenen Produkte und Dienstleistungen trotz der Beschränkungen Geschäftslokale zu betreten, beständig aufmerksam zu machen. Der Umstand, dass die Krise dazu zwingt, auf andere Kommunikationsmittel als das persönliche Kundengespräch auszuweichen, erlaubt dabei jedoch nicht, die Regeln für E-Mail-Werbung außer Acht zu lassen.

New commentary on the Austrian Stock Corporation Act

4 May 2020

Elke Napokoj and Michaela Pelinka, partners at bpv Huegel in Vienna, together with Heinrich Foglar-Deinhardstein, partner at CERHA HEMPEL Rechtsanwälte, have published a practical commentary on the Austrian Stock Corporation Act in the renowned publishing house LexisNexis.