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Commercially minded finance advice

As global financial markets change with evolving global dynamics, we deliver agile solutions for implementing your finance and investment strategies regardless of the current landscape. Our lawyers track new laws, market conditions, and financial products – balancing local knowledge, legal insight, and sector-focused commercial sense to protect your interests.

From asset-based lending, corporate lending, leveraged finance, securitizations, structured finance, and venture and growth finance to debt capital markets, sports, media and entertainment, and projects and energy finance, our Finance team helps global providers of debt capital and the companies who borrow from them navigate their most critical and sophisticated finance transactions.

With 800+ finance lawyers across leading global financial centers and start-up hubs, the strength of our global platform delivers financing solutions when and where you need it. We advise on financing across borders, sectors, and products, and help overcome the legal, commercial, and political challenges of running a global business.

“I wouldn’t use anyone else – they are really easy to work with. They know which battles to contest and what is easily conceded whilst always having our interests at the forefront.”

Client, Chambers

We are on the cutting edge of domestic and international banking, capital markets, and structured finance – designing innovative structures, supporting first-of-a-kind deals, and working in new markets. And when complex distressed situations emerge, we help lenders and issuers tackle challenges from all angles.

Whether you’re an asset manager, bank, borrower, investor or private credit fund, our business-focused strategies are designed to help you maximize opportunities in a dynamic market.

In Austria

ESG requirements, the expanding competences of supervisory authorities, increasing regulatory requirements, a high level of capital in the private equity environment versus inflation and rising interest rates or disruptive technologies in the financial sector - the list of influential factors in the market is in constant and changeable growth. This means that the environment in which you operate, in Austria as well as in a global context, is changing all the time.

DLA Piper's Austrian finance group not only follows current developments, but also actively shapes the market and gets involved. Just like the wider global DLA Piper finance team, we also have excellent relationships with financial services and other authorities, associations and institutions in this country.

We advise a large number of national and international companies, banks and other financial institutions, private equity firms as well as issuers and borrowers in connection with financings of all kinds, including the structuring of financings and the drafting and negotiation of financing agreements. In addition, we also support established and emerging clients with issues in banking and banking supervisory law as well as in the FinTech sector.

In addition to our internationality and our first-class legal expertise, our advice also thrives on the well-established collaboration with our colleagues in the areas of corporate tax law, energy, real estate, restructuring, real estate, litigation and regulatory. We therefore offer a geographically and professionally holistic approach, enabling us to recognise correlations and emerging developments at an early stage and to develop quick and reliable solutions. Our declared goal is to accompany you successfully through every change and to create legal certainty for your projects, both in Austria and globally.

Our key areas of finance advice:

  • Bonds
  • Banking laws and regulatory requirements
  • Capital market law
  • Infrastructure and project financing
  • Investment funds and asset management
  • Loans and acquisition financing
  • Mezzanine financing
  • Private equity
  • Real estate financing
  • Structured financing/asset-based lending
  • Syndicated loans

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