Making things work.
Firm
Trust is the most important currency. We are always loyally at your side. With our expertise and experience from over twenty years in business. And if necessary, with shield and sword.
We are happy to support you in the following areas:
Corporate and Commercial Law
- Formation and ongoing support of
- Corporations (stock corporation, company with limited liability and Flexible Company)
- Partnerships (general, limited and silent partnership) and
- other legal entities (private foundation, cooperative, association)
- Shareholders‘ agreements
- Joint venture-agreements
- Corporate actions
- Reorganisations
- Capital maintenance
- Replacement of equity capital
- Responsibility of executive bodies
- Financing
Disputed Company Law
- Disputed shareholders‘ meetings
- Corporate law disputes
Mergers & Acquisitions ("M&A")
We support you in every phase of a transaction, whether on buyer’s or seller’s side:
- Planning
- Strategic investors
- Institutional investors
- Transaction structure
- Share deal
- Asset deal
- Procedure
- Exclusive negotiations (one-on-one)
- limited auctions
- Implementation
- Contract preparation documents
- Letter of Intent, Memorandum of Understanding
- Confidentiality agreement (NDA)
- Mandate agreement
- Information memorandum
- Process letter
- Due diligence of the target
- User agreement for the data room
- Vendor’s due diligence
- Buyer’s due diligence
- Preparation, review and negotiation of purchase agreements
- Board resolutions (executive board, management, supervisory board)
- Contract preparation documents
- Accompanying measures
- Shareholder agreements
- Reorganisations
- Antitrust, public law and regulatory approvals
- Post-acquisition measures
- Profit and loss transfer and group agreements
- Clearing and cash pooling
- Exclusion of minority shareholders (squeeze-out)
Reorganisations
- Merger
- Cross-border merger
- Demerger
- Spin-off
- Transformation
- Change of legal form from public limited companies to private limited companies and vice versa, including Flexible Companies
- Contribution in kind
- Real division
Banking and Capital Markets Law
- Banking Law
- Regulatory and compliance matters
- Contact and communication with regulatory authorities
- Reorganisations
- Drafting of contracts
- Structuring of investment products
- Capital Markets
- Alternative Investment Funds (AIF)
- Notification of EU-AIF and foreign AIF in Austria
- distribution to professional investors and private clients
- Drafting capital markets prospectuses
- Private placements
- Initial Public Offerings – IPOs
- Secondary Public Offerings – SPOs
- Insider trading
- Compliance
- Corporate reporting
- Disclosure requirements
- Investor litigations
- Alternative Investment Funds (AIF)
Private Clients
- Strategic consulting
- Succession planning
- Private foundation law
- Holding structures
- Services for family offices
- Hereditary law
Real Estate Law
- Real estate transactions
- Land register law
IP Law
- Copyright law
- Trademark and design law
Distribution Law
- Commercial agency agreements
- Authorized dealer agreements
- Franchise agreements
- Compensation claims of commercial agents
Team
Dr. Georg Justich
- Attorney at law since 2006.
- Practice areas: corporate and commercial law, disputed company law, M&A, reorganisations, banking and capital markets law, private clients.
- Studied in Vienna, Graz and Regensburg. Dissertation and bar exam with excellent results.
- Professional career at PwC (Vienna), Schoenherr Attorneys at Law (Vienna), Alston & Bird (New York City) and Konrad & Justich Attorneys at Law (Vienna).
- Selected publications:
- Mergers, Capital Maintenance and Creditor Rights (Kapitalerhaltung und Gläubigerschutz bei Verschmelzungen), WUV Universitätsverlag, Vienna 2005.
- Manual For Stock Corporations (Handbuch zur Aktiengesellschaft; co-editor and author), LexisNexis, 2nd edition, Vienna 2017.
- Manual For Stock Corporations – Form Book (Handbuch zur Aktiengesellschaft; co-editor and author), LexisNexis, 1st edition, Vienna 2018.
- Languages: German, English, French and Swedish.
Direct e-mail: gj@justich.com
Mag. Alexander Lotschak
Independent attorney at law cooperating as permanent substitute.
- Attorney at law since 2005.
- Practice areas: civil and commercial law, real estate law, IP law and distribution law.
- Studied in Vienna and Graz.
- Professional career: Trained as a lawyer in Vienna. At the same time, management and takeover of the publishing house and IP rights agency Hans Pero. Member of the supervisory board of Literar-Mechana, the Austrian copyright collecting agency for literature, and member of the supervisory board of the Austrian music publishing house Universal Edition AG, established in 1901. Managing Director and shareholder of ski manufacturer Kaestle; establishment of subsidiaries in several countries in Europe and the United States of America.
- Languages: German, English, French and Italian.
Contact Details
JUSTICH LEGAL
Dr. Georg Justich
Baeckerstraße 6/4
1010 Vienna, Austria
The office is located in the city centre of Vienna in immediate vicinity of St. Stephens Cathedral.
