Michaela Wernitznig-Kittel

Counsel
Vienna
About

Michaela Wernitznig-Kittel focuses on M&A and corporate law.

She advises on a wide range of M&A transactions, including private equity transactions, as well as corporate restructurings and corporate litigation. Her main sector focus is energy, telecommunications and Austrian financial market authority regulated services.

She is author of several publications on corporate law.

Areas of FocusEnergy and Natural ResourcesCorporateMergers and Acquisitions
Professional QualificationsRechtsanwältin registered with Rechtsanwaltskammer Wien

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising an Austrian bank on the cross border merger with its Slovenian bank-subsidiary and the related regulatory approvals.
  • Advising an Austrian bank on the split-off of its payment services business into a new entity and in the applicable procedure with the Austrian Financial Market Authority both as to the approval of the split-off and issuance of the payment services license.
  • Advising an Austrian energy company on the sale of its subsidiary active in the television/media sector.
  • Advising an Austrian company on the sale of its Croatian subsidiary active in the telecommunication sector by way of an auction process.
  • Advising a German private equity fund on the acquisition of all shares in an Austrian company operating a cold storage warehouse by way of an auction process.
  • Advising an Austrian energy company on the disposal of its Austrian subsidiary active in the electronic, engineering and manufacturing sector by way of a management buy-out.
  • Advising an Austrian energy company on the sale of its Czech wind park companies to a private equity fund by way of a share deal.
  • Advising on the sale of an Austrian travel agency to an Austrian internationally operating travel company by way of a share deal.
  • Advising an Austrian private trust on the disposal of its construction business by way of an auction process.
  • Advising an Austrian energy company on the sale of its Austrian subsidiaries active in the telecommunication sector by way of an auction process.
Languages
  • German
  • English
Education
  • University of Vienna, Mag. iur., 2003
  • University of Essex, GB, foreign term, 2002

Publications

  • Insolvency: The CEO decides!, Industriemagazin 03/2013, 68, with Thomas Meier
  • Caution when lending to shareholders: The deceits of equity capital replacement law, CFO aktuell 2013, 32
  • The Supervisory Board and M&A Transactions, Aufsichtsrat aktuell 2013/1, 6, with Hannes Schlager
  • The Supervisory Board and M&A Transactions, Industriemagazin 12-01/2012-13, 48

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DLA Piper advises GG Group on spin-off of elevator division

29 October 2020 .2 minute read

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+43 1 531 78 1082
(Work, Vienna)