🏆 Best Lawyers | Handelsblatt Ranking 2025

17 recognitions – 2 top honors
We are proud to share that 17 of our partners and lawyers have been named among “Austria’s Best Lawyers” in the 2025 edition of the Handelsblatt ranking – a recognition that spans across key legal fields and reflects the depth and strength of our team.

✨ A special congratulations to our two partners who received the prestigious “Lawyer of the Year” awards:

  • Astrid Ablasser-Neuhuber – Competition / Antitrust Law
  • Markus Schifferl – Arbitration and Mediation

We also celebrate our outstanding colleagues who were recognized in their respective practice areas:

  • Astrid Ablasser-Neuhuber – Bet-the-Company Litigation, Competition / Antitrust, European Union Practice
  • Christian Macho – Procurement
  • Ingo Braun – Banking and Finance
  • Sonja Dürager – Privacy and Data Security
  • Gerhard Fussenegger – Competition / Antitrust
  • Florian Gibitz – Banking and Finance, Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Thomas Lettau – Corporate
  • Johannes Mitterecker – Corporate
  • Elke Napokoj – Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity
  • Christoph Nauer – Capital Markets, Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Florian Neumayr – Competition / Antitrust, European Union Practice
  • Paul Pfeifenberger – Labor and Employment
  • Sebastian Reiter – Competition / Antitrust
  • Markus Schifferl – Arbitration and Mediation, Litigation
  • Christian F. Schneider – Energy, European Union Practice, Public Law, Regulatory Practice
  • Kornelia Wittmann – Tax
  • Nicolas Wolski – Tax

Warm congratulations to everyone mentioned, along with the hardworking teams behind their success!

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