Schoenherr maintains its top position in the Austrian M&A market in 2015
Schoenherr maintained its top position in the Austrian M&A market in 2015, according to the league tables for legal advisors published by Mergermarket, a leading business intelligence provider.
2016-02-08 12:09:45
The data in Mergemarket and comprehensive transaction database places Schoenherr M&A practice at No 1 in terms of the number of qualifying Austrian M&A transactions it advised on this past year. With 20 Austria-related deals credited on the basis of Mergermarket criteria, Schoenherr significantly outpaced the next-placed firms (both of which had 13 credited deals) in a ranking encompassing a total of 119 firms. Schoenherr has consistently ranked at the very top of Mergermarket league table for Austria since 2008.
Thomson Reuters has also identified Schoenherr as the law firm advising on the largest number of transactions in Austria in 2015.
With 35 deals acknowledged for its home market of Austria and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Schoenherr also placed 3rd among the 276 law firms that Mergermarket ranked for this region. In doing so, Schoenherr put in the best performance of any Austria-based firm.
"We are glad that we were able to maintain our spot at the very top of the Austrian M&A market for the eighth year in a row. We are also very pleased by our strong showing as one of the leading firms in the CEE region," said Alexander Popp, the head of Schoenherr Corporate M&A practice group.
Leading M&A advisor in Austria
Schoenherr advised on a broad range of high-profile M&A transactions in Austria in 2015, including: adidas on its acquisition of runtastic, a leading health and fitness app producer, a consortium led by Goldman Sachs and Highgate Hotels in its acquisition of the K+K Hotels Group, Rohrdorfer group on its acquisition of CEMEX operations in Austria and Hungary, Allianz Capital Partners (ACP) on its acquisition of four wind parks from ImWind, Albemarle Corporation on the sale of its Tribotecc metal sulfides business to Treibacher Industrie, General Electric subsidiary GE Jenbacher on its acquisition of Francesconi Technologie, Austrian pharmaceutical wholesaler Jacoby GM on its merger with Kogl Pharma, immigon portfolioabbau (previously OeVAG) on its sale of VB Factoring Bank, DPx Fine Chemicals on the sale of its ES and IM divisions to Ardian France
The founders of AIM Software Group on the sale of a majority interest to US-based private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
Romania's President Klaus Iohannis urged Romanians in France to be more united and stay involved as much as they are now in helping modernise Romania.
Romania's economy will grow by 4.2 per cent this year and by 3.6 per cent in 2019, according to the most recent forecast released by the European Bank for Reconstruction an...
The Romanian Finance Ministry has signed five more grant agreements under the state aid scheme, and among the beneficiaries are Automobile Dacia, with RON 115.8 million.
OTP Bank Romania signed a partnership with Eurobank Fund Management Company (Luxembourg) for the distribution of investment funds in Romania. Thus, from December 1st, OTP B...
Fondul Proprietatea is disappointed with the decision taken by the majority shareholder of Engie SA, Romania Gas Holding B.V., to oppose the listing of the company, accordi...
Europe must become a producer of new technologies, not just a consumer of technologies, said Gerard de Graaf, Director for the Digital Single Market in Directorate-General ...
Non-residents' direct investment in Romania (net FDI) totaled 4.56 billion Euro in January-October 2018, around 10 per cent more compared to the same period of 2017, Romani...