Austria

Kunz Schima Wallentin Rechtsanwälte OG

Georg Schima Birgit Vogt-Majarek Porzellangasse 4 1090 Vienna Tel: +43 1 313 74 0 Fax: +43 1 313 74 80 www.ksw.at

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Kunz Schima Wallentin was founded in 1990. Today we have a dedicated team of 45 people, including 20 lawyers. We also work closely with a number of select external legal consultants and our advisory board consisting of five highly respected university professors.

Business law is our speciality.

For selected special practice areas, we have established dedicated practice groups:

Labour and employment law; corporate and commercial; mergers & acquisitions, private equity; insolvency; intellectual property (esp. film productions and gaming); Internet and e-commerce; antitrust; real estate and development; pharmaceuticals, health care and medical law; estate planning; arbitration; and specialized legal services for Italian clients.

Labour and employment law is our largest practice group, having two senior partners, two junior partners, and six other lawyers working full-time on the issues.

Our labour law team is widely recognized as one of the top, if not the top, practice groups in Austria.

Kunz Schima Wallentin provides services in all areas of labour and employment law:

• Executive employment contracts
• Director’s and officer’s liability
• Rationalisation and restructuring concepts (e.g., reduction of fringe benefits, collective redundancies, social compensation plans, employment foundations, etc.)
• Compensation plans (e.g., stock option plans, etc.)
• Privatisation projects
• Expatriate employment and (cross-border) personnel leasing
• Pensions and pension-fund related matters
• Special labour laws (e.g., hospital labour law, civil service law, farm labour law, etc.)
• Art and cultural management matters (film, theatre, media)
• Labour law in insolvency situations

Serving the business community is our firm’s main focus.

Our labour law team serves industries such as banking and finance, energy, public transport, automotive, commerce, insurance, and pension funds.

We advise top managers as well as corporations, in Vienna and throughout Austria.

Georg Schima, who heads the team, is widely recognized as a leader in his field by such groups as Chambers & Partners, Legalease (Legal 500 and European Legal Experts), Practical Law Company, Legal Media Group (Best of the Best and Expert Guide to the World's Leading Labour and Employment Lawyers), and Law Business Research (International Who's Who of Business Lawyers), all of whom reflect the top rankings he receives from his peers.

Georg Schima has written numerous well-known and respected publications on the subjects of labour and employment law as well as corporate law, and franchise and distribution law. He is also in frequent demand as a speaker at professional training seminars on labour, employment, and corporate law.

Legal services are rendered in English, French, German, and Italian; KSW employs lawyers who are native speakers of English, German, and Italian.

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Peter Kunz Thomas Wallentin Wolfgang Friedl Eberhard Wallentin Gepart Christian Wünsch Herwig Regner Katharina Seitz Natalie

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