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Each year schoenherr promotes an artist whose work reflects the firm’s spirit and the central theme of the firm‘s annual publication, the roadmap. This year’s featured artist is LIA, an Aus trian soft ware artist, who has given us permission to use some of her artwork in our promotional materials. Her images pro vide a poignant inter pret a tion of the current theme of evolution. www.liaworks.com

Given today’s volat ile eco nomic envir on ment, the legal land scape has changed, and con tin ues to change, with unpre ced en ted speed. It is crit ical for busi nesses to stay abreast of these changes in order to evolve with them, to bene fit from them, and to pros­per in a new, higher form.

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schoenherr is one of the top corporate law firms in Central and Eastern Europe. With our wide­ranging network of offices throughout CEE/SEE, we offer our clients unique coverage in the region. Our teams are tailor made, assembled from our various practice groups and across our network of offices. Such sharing of re­sources, local knowledge and international expertise allows us to offer the client the best possible service.

schoenherr attorneys at law

central & eastern europe

core practices

tax

banking, finance & capital marketscompliance & white collar crime

employmenteu & competition

insolvency & restructuringip, it & life sciences

real estateregulatory

dispute resolutioncorporate/m&a

core practices

leading lawyers Many schoenherr lawyers are recognised leaders in their specialised areas of law. Our clients profit from the rich diversity of talents, languages and cultures that make our lawyers particularly versatile and adaptive.

banking, finance & capital marketsschoenherr advises on banking, finance (including project and acquisition finance), debt restructuring and re-financing, acquisition and disposition of distressed assets and loan portfolios, claims trading, capital market transactions involving equity (including equity linked), hybrid & debt, funds, derivatives and other financial services. We provide transactional and regulatory advice. Our lawyers act for major international and regional banks, other financial institutions (insurance companies, funds and asset managers) and corporates (issuers, borrowers and sponsors). schoenherr’s banking and finance practice has received the top ranking (Band 1) from Chambers Global 2013. Furthermore the firm has a solid standing as Tier 1 advisor for General Business Law SEE (Chambers Europe 2013) and Central and Eas-tern Europe (Legal 500, 2012). Services: Banking and other Financial Services Regulatory; Finance (including Acquisition and Project Finance); Debt Restructuring and Re-financing; Transactions in Distressed Assets; Debt and Equity (including Equity Linked and Hybrid) Capital Markets; Derivatives and Structured Finance; Funds, Asset Management and other Financial Services.

compliance & white collar crimeIn all areas of business, companies are facing mounting levels of compliance risk. Consequently, effective corporate compliance measu-res, corporate criminal proceedings and investigations have markedly gained in importance. In response to this, and to better service the needs of our clients, schoenherr has established a dedicated criminal compliance and white collar crime team. The team’s substantive legal expertise in this area means it is well-equipped to handle all aspects of compliance and white collar criminal matters.Services: Compliance Management Systems, Programmes, Guidelines, Workshops and Trainings, Monitoring Systems; Whistleblowing Hotlines; Anti-bribery Law and White Collar Crime (Corruption, Fraud, Breach of Trust, Insider Trading, Money Laundering, Accounting Fraud, Insolvency Crimes, Environmental Criminal Law); Data Protection; Breach of Professional Secrecy.

corporate/m&aOur core practice is advising and representing clients on transactions and complex corporate and commercial matters. Over the years, the practice group has built an outstanding record on headline and key transactions in Austria and throughout CEE/SEE. schoenherr’s M&A teams advise on national and cross-border transactions, including private M&A, public tender offers, transactions for listed com-panies, private equity and venture capital transactions, auction sales, privatisations, strategic alliances and joint ventures. Dedicated teams within the practice group focus on restructuring and insolvency, working together with the firm’s insolvency specialists to advise on distressed companies M&A. Together with the firm’s regulatory specialists, the corporate/M&A group has developed industry-spe-cific expertise covering inter alia the following sectors: energy, financial institutions, telecoms, automotive, media and pharmaceuticals. schoenherr’s corporate/M&A practice has consistently been ranked in the highest tier by acclaimed legal directories such as Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, IFLR1000, and Legal 500.Services: Corporate Governance; Cross-border Transactions; Joint Ventures; M&A; Privatisations; Public Takeovers; Private Equity; Ven-ture Capital; Compliance Programmes; (Corporate) Restructurings and Distressed Companies M&A; Reorganisations; All Measures of Corporate Structuring and Generational Change in Family Enterprises; Corporate Litigation; Sector-specific Transactions, including Finan-cial Institutions, Energy and TMT.

established schoenherr arrived in the region 16 years ago and came to stay. The firm’s lawyer turnover is one of the lowest in the industry – and clients benefit from this stability and continuity.

dispute resolutionOur dispute resolution practice group has extensive experience in litigation, as well as commercial and investment arbitration. schoenherr’s longstanding experience in handling commercial disputes and drafting dispute resolution clauses makes the firm an effective advocate of its clients’ interests. schoenherr’s dispute resolution practice has retained its top (Band 1) ranking in Chambers Global 2013.Services: International and Domestic Commercial Litigation; Commercial Arbitration; Investment Arbitration; Construction Arbitration; Pre-trial Work and Case Management.

employmentOur employment team advises on all aspects of employment law from the beginning through to the end of the employment relationship, for both contentious and non-contentious matters. It focuses on employment issues arising in the course of mergers and acquisitions, transfer of undertakings, workforce and management restructuring, domestic and cross-border transfer of employees, downsizing and closure of production lines, employment tribunal litigation, workforce restructuring and related negotiations with employees and their re-presentatives, as well as general non-contentious employment advice.Services: Restructuring and Reorganisation Planning; Transfer of Undertakings; Compensation Structures (Executive and Non-executive); Employment Contracts; Pension Plans; Share Ownership Plans (including Stock Options); Tailor-made in-house Client Seminars; Immig-ration; Contentious Employment Litigation; General non-contentious Employment Advice.

eu & competitionschoenherr’s competition practice advises clients from across all industries in merger control, anti-trust and state aid matters on the Eu-ropean and national levels throughout the firm’s comprehensive network in Central and Eastern Europe.Services: Merger Control/Multinational Filings; Antitrust Investigations/Litigation; Compliance Programmes; Strategic Cooperation / Joint Ventures; Distribution Agreements; State Aid; EU Competition Law

insolvency & restructuringschoenherr‘s insolvency and restructuring team offers a unique combination of the know-how of a boutique insolvency firm and the comprehensive range of legal services of an international law firm. The team has a strong record in advising both lenders and distressed borrowers on pre-insolvency reorganization and re-financing and extensive experience in representing creditors in insolvency procee-dings and insolvency related litigation. In addition, the insolvency and restructuring team frequently acts as legal advisor in cross-border insolvency proceedings and is permanent counsel for international banking associations in close-out-netting issues. schoenherr‘s insol-vency and restructuring team is well regarded for its ability to efficiently handle also large-scale restructurings and providing compre-hensive advice, drawing, where necessary, upon experts from other practice groups, such as banking & finance and corporate/m&a. schoenherr’s insolvency & restructuring practice is the only Austrian practice to receive the top (Tier 1) ranking in Legal 500, Chambers Global and Chambers Europe.Services: Pre-insolvency Reorganization and Refinancing; Protection of Creditors’ Rights; Representation in insolvency proceedings and insolvency-related litigation; Close-Out-Netting Issues; Distressed M&A.

schoenherr is a full service firm, offering not only transactional advice of the highest level, but also unmatched expertise in competition, regulatory, intellectual property and other more specialised areas of law.

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ip, it & life sciencesschoenherr’s IP practice group has longstanding experience and an outstanding reputation in trademark, design, patent, copyright and unfair competition matters. The partners frequently represent parties in ground-breaking court cases in national and European courts. The team of IP lawyers and highly specialized paralegals is also active in combating product and software piracy, including customs seizu-res. It offers an integrated service on contentious and non-contentious IP, IT and internet related issues and advises on M&A transactions with an IP/IT focus. The portfolio of services also includes food and drug law, life sciences and unfair competition.Services: Anti-Piracy; Biotechnology; Border Detention; Copyright; Designs; Domain Names; E-Commerce; Food and Drug Law; IP Tran-sactional Work (M&A, Finance); IT Outsourcing; Licensing; Litigation; Patents; Brand Development ; Prosecution (TM and Designs); Phar-maceuticals; Research and Development Agreements; Software Agreements; Trademarks; Unfair Competition.

real estateThe real estate practice group is highly regarded across CEE/SEE. It enjoys high visibility in the region’s largest and most important tran-sactions and projects. The team advises clients on all legal aspects of their real estate businesses. The main focus of schoenherr’s real estate practice is advising investors and development companies on the acquisition and development of real estate, real estate tran-sactions, sale and lease back, joint ventures and PPP projects, energy projects, structuring real estate funds, innovative capital markets transactions and restructurings, and real estate related litigation.Services: Acquisition/Sale of Real Estate and Real Estate Companies; Project Development; Construction; Due Diligence/Title Investigati-on; Financing Structures; Structuring of Real Estate Funds and Real Estate Stock Corporations; Lease Agreements; Sale and Lease Back; Claim Management; Contracts for Architects, General Contractors and Builders; Plant Construction and Building Permits; Land Registry Law; Real Estate-Related Litigation; PPP Projects in Connection with Infrastructure; Energy Projects (Solar Parks, Wind Parks, Photovol-taic Parks).

regulatoryschoenherr’s regulatory expertise and longstanding experience is recognised as the standard bearer for regulatory-related advice. By providing a wide-ranging and consistently reliable service, the regulatory practice group has successfully advised leading players in the infrastructure, energy and utilities (electricity, oil, gas and hydro), waste, pulp, paper, mining, steel, automotive, glass, food, utilities, en-tertainment, pharmacy and research sectors. The team also advises stakeholders and public authorities on the current legislation and implementation of EU Directives. The practice group’s expertise guarantees comprehensive and first-rate legal advice in all matters of constitutional and administrative law, particularly with respect to environmental, energy, life science, privacy and telecommunications law, as well as privatisations, public private partnerships and public procurement.Services: Environmental Law (including Environmental Impact Assessments, Construction, Plant Licensing, Waste Management and Clean Ups); Infrastructure; Energy (including Renewables and Emission Trading); Telecoms; E-commerce and Data Protection; Health Institutions and Pharmacies; Privatisations; Public Procurement and PPPs; State Aid; Due Diligence.

taxschoenherr’s tax practice group advises domestic and international clients on their most sophisticated and challenging tax matters. Con-sidering the importance of tax aspects to the success of a transaction, our tax group seamlessly works together with the other schoen-herr practice groups, in particular the corporate/m&a and banking, finance & capital markets groups. In the event of transactional advice, our tax group is involved from the outset and continues through into post transaction tax planning. The team also provides stand alone tax planning advice. Through detailed analysis of the client’s business it provides tailor-made tax solutions that fit the client’s particular needs.Services: International Taxation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Restructurings; Structured Finance, Capital Markets and Structured Products; Investment Funds; Domestic and International Tax Planning for Businesses and High Net Worth Individuals.

Quality, flexibility, innovation and practical problem-solving in complex commercial mandates are at the core of the schoenherr philosophy.We have a track record of getting deals done with our can-do, solution-oriented approach.

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austriaTuchlauben 17A­1010 ViennaT: +43 1 534 37 0E: office.austria@schoenherr.eu

bulgariaAlabin 56BG­1000 SofiaT: +359 2 933 10 70E: office.bulgaria@schoenherr.eu

croatiaUl. kneza Branimira 29HR­10000 Zagreb T: +385 1 457 64 92 E: office.croatia@schoenherr.eu

czech republicnám. Republiky 1079/1aCZ­110 00 Prague 1T: +420 225 996 500E: office.czechrepublic@schoenherr.eu

european unionAvenue de Cortenbergh 52B­1000 BrusselsT: +32 2 743 40 40E: office.belgium@schoenherr.eu

hungaryBuday László utca 12.H­1024 BudapestT: +36 1 345 87 78E: office.hungary@schoenherr.eu

moldovaStr. Vlaicu­Parcalab no. 63, office 9AMD­2012 ChisinauT: +373 22 240 300E: office.moldova@schoenherr.eu

polandul. Próżna 9PL­00­107 WarsawT: +48 22 223 09 00E: office.poland@schoenherr.eu

romania Blvd. Dacia Nr. 30RO­010413 BucharestT: +40 21 319 67 90E: office.romania@schoenherr.eu

serbiaFrancuska 27SRB­11000 BelgradeT: +381 11 320 26 00E: office.serbia@schoenherr.eu

slovakiaNám. 1. mája 18 (Park One)SK­811 06 BratislavaT: +421 2 571 007 01E: office.slovakia@schoenherr.eu

sloveniaTomšičeva 3SI­1000 LjubljanaT: +386 1 200 09 80E: office.slovenia@schoenherr.eu

turkey Mim Kemal Öke Caddesi, Kristal Apt. No. 17, Kat. 2­3, TK­34367, Harbiye, IstanbulT: +90 212 230 17 00E: office.turkey@schoenherr.eu

ukraine 44 Shota Rustaveli StreetUA­01033 KyivT: +38 044 220 10 46E: office.ukraine@schoenherr.eu

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Schoenherr is in compliance with the respective local legal standards and conduct rules in all countries; therefore, the local firm name may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.

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schoenherr’s outstanding reputation in all practice areas is evidenced by the firm’s numerous prestigious awards, including Emerging Europe Legal Adviser of the Year (Private Equity Awards, 2013), Law Firm of the Year: Austria (The Lawyer, 2012), Austria Law Firm of the Year (Chambers Europe, 2011), Ukraine Client Choice Award (International Law Office, 2011), and Cross-Border Law Firm of the Year: Czech Republic (ACQ Law Awards, 2011).

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