Dr. Uwe Rautner

Rautner / Huber is a niche law firm specializing in domestic and international finance, with a particular focus on all aspects of banking, capital markets and finance law, including financial regulation, insolvency and restructuring, projects, and related corporate and commercial law matters. A stone‘s throw away from St. Stephen‘s Cathedral in the heart of Vienna‘s city center, Rautner / Huber advises domestic and international banks and financial institutions, investment firms and insurance companies, and other businesses in diverse industries. With over 20 years of combined experience, founding partners Uwe Rautner and Wolfram Huber are intimately familiar with their clients’ business needs, develop customized solutions and implement them together with their clients.

Uwe Rautner worked in the legal department of an Austrian bank and for over eight years with two of the most prestigious international law firms in Vienna and in New York City. He received his doctorate in international insolvency law. Uwe has extensive experience in negotiating and structuring domestic and international finance and capital markets transactions. He has advised financial institutions and companies in diverse industries in numerous real estate, acquisition and structured finance transactions as well as in restructurings and securitizations. Uwe has authored numerous publications in the fields of banking and capital markets law.

Please see below a selection of banking and finance transactions on which Rautner / Huber has been working since January 2012:

Advising German bank as MLA and Agent in connection with the refinancing of a EUR 130.000.000 secured syndicated loan facility.

Advising an international bank on the structuring of contingent convertible notes (CoCos) counting as Tier 1 capital for regulatory purposes under Basel III/CRD IV.

Advising Lender on the restructuring of a secured revolving term facility to the Austrian subsidiary of one of Russia’s largest mining companies and on the restructuring of the collateral package.

Advising international construction company in the bid for the design-build-finance-operate concession for the Milot-Morine highway in Albania.

Advising a Dutch bank in the work-out and restructuring of a EUR 97 million project finance facility.

Advising the borrower as Austrian counsel in connection with the amendment to a RUB 6.5 billion acquisition financing.

Advising financing bank in connection with the financing of the acquisition of an Austrian beverages company by a foreign investor.

Advising one of the largest Slovak private equity groups in connection with the acquisition of an Austrian bank.

Advising a private client on security law aspects in connection with the insolvency of a renowned global historic string instruments trader.