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Alexander Reich-Rohrwig

Partner
Vienna
About

Alexander Reich-Rohrwig provides comprehensive advice on corporate and commercial law. His clients include Austrian and international companies, investors and financial institutions.

His practice focuses in particular on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, corporate and contract law, as well as corporate reorganisations and restructurings. Alexander also has extensive experience advising on complex domestic and cross-border transactions. 

Another focus of Alexander's practice is on complex carve-out asset deals (e.g. in the course of sale-and-lease-back-transactions), inter alia, for industrial- and pharmaceutical parks.

Finally, he advises management and supervisory board members on compliance questions as well as in relation to directors' liability (duties of care, business judgement rule, etc).


Areas of FocusCorporateMergers and AcquisitionsPrivate EquityCapital SolutionsTechnology and Commercial TransactionsSustainabilityEnergy and Natural ResourcesIndustrialsInfrastructure, Construction and Transport
Professional QualificationsRechtsanwalt registered with Rechtsanwaltskammer Wien
Education
  • University of Vienna, Dr. iur., 2015
  • University of Vienna, Mag. iur., 2008

EXPERIENCE

  • Transaction Lead for setting-up a cross-border joint venture (AT/DE) for the construction and operation of Europe's largest sorting plant for chemical plastics recycling in Germany.*
  • Advising on the acquisition of large pharmaceutical parks via complex carve-out asset deals for an important German infrastructure services provider.*
  • Advice on large-scale cross-border M&A transactions in the energy and chemicals sector.*
  • Advising on the setting up of joint ventures for the construction and operation of renewable energy plants (electrolysis plant, photovoltaics plant).*

*Denotes experience from previous firm.

Languages
  • German
  • English
  • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • French

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

  • "Rising Star Partner" (IFLR) 
  • Legal 500 listed
  • Grand Prize of the Austrian Banking Association (Bankenverbandspreis 2016; main prize)

Speaker events

  • Regular lectures at Anwaltsakademie

Publications and media

  • Cybersicherheit und IT-Organisation nach dem NISG 2026 und nach allgemeinem Gesellschaftsrecht:
    Gesellschaftsrechtliche Aspekte des NISG 2026 - und was für die übrigen Unternehmen gilt, GesRZ 2026, 216, A. Reich-Rohrwig
  • Die Ärzte-FlexCo als Alternative zur Ärzte-GmbH, RdM 2025/2, A. Reich-Rohrwig/Gerbl
  • Mitgegangen, mitgefangen, mitgehangen - Wann eine verbotene Einlagenrückgewähr dem (un)beteiligten Dritten zum Verhängnis wird, ecolex 2025/151, A. Reich-Rohrwig
  • Handbuch Flexible Kapitalgesellschaft (2024), MANZ Verlag Wien, 2024, Reich-Rohrwig/Reich-Rohrwig/Kinsky/Kurz
  • GesDigG 2023: Die Disqualifikation von Geschäftsführern und Vorstandsmitgliedern, ecolex 2024, 248, A. Reich-Rohrwig/Gerbl
  • Absenkung des GmbH-Mindeststammkapitals und Ende der Gründungsprivilegierung, ecolex 2024, 146, A. Reich-Rohrwig/Gerbl
  • Aufklärungspflichten über einen Verdacht bereits ausgeschiedener Entscheidungsträger, ecolex 2021, 22, A. Reich-Rohrwig
  • Unternehmenskauf, Due Diligence und Aufklärungspflichten, ecolex 2016, 4, A. Reich-Rohrwig
  • Aufklärungspflichten vor Vertragsabschluss unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Unternehmenskaufs, MANZ Wien (2015), A. Reich-Rohrwig

Prior Experience

  • 2023-2025, Partner, leading Austrian law firm
  • 2019-2023, Senior Associate, leading Austrian law firm
  • 2017-2019, Associate, leading Austrian law firm

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Vienna Bar Association

My latest insights

News

DLA Piper Expands Corporate Practice with Appointment of Alexander Reich-Rohrwig

2 November 2026 .2 minute read

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