WMWP advises credit institutions, enterprises, securities firms, investment funds, insurances and intermediaries with regard to financing transactions, acquisitions and connected regulatory issues. Moreover, WMWP has considerable experience in advising businesses in the FinTech sector and in the field of alternative finance.

Activities / References

• provision of day-to-day legal advice to various major Austrian banking institutions in the fields of turnaround financing, avoidance proceedings, secured lending, insolvency law and outsourcings
• representing the acquirer of a qualified shareholding in an Austrian banking institution in a shareholder control procedure before the Austrian Financial Market Authority
• provision of legal advice to various banking institutions and issuers in numerous bond issues and their admission to the Austrian exchange market, respectively
• provision of legal services to issuers and funds (bonds, participation rights, limited partnership interests)
• legal management of the outsourcing of banking businesses
• provision of legal advice to enterprises in the FinTech sector with regard to the realisation of their business model

Highlights

• Advised a real estate company in the course of capital increases via the Vienna Stock Exchange as well as on the issue of a listed convertible bond
• establishment and legal support of a German hedge fund in Austria
• Advised a major Austrian banking institute on the outsourcing of various business parts