Horst Ebhardt

Horst Ebhardt heads the firm-wide Corporate/M&A team. He specialises in complex cross-border transactions in the fields of M&A, privatisation and restructuring in Austria and throughout the CEE/SEE region. He has also been advising companies from a broad range of industries - with a particular focus on financial institutions, life sciences and private equity – on corporate finance and governance matters.

Having worked on about 80 transactions as lead attorney over the last 10 years (including several transactions involving a value of more than EUR 1 billion), Horst offers a wide range of experience concerning legal and tax aspects in connection with complex cross-border transactions, combined with a thorough understanding of clients’ needs from a business perspective. He has been in private practice for 25 years focusing on corporate law and M&A.

Horst holds degrees from Graz University Law School (Dr. iur) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LL.M). Horst is admitted to the bar in both Austria and the Czech Republic and teaches an M&A programme at the law school of the University of Vienna.

Education

• London School of Economics and Political Science
• (LL.M.), 1986
• University of Graz (Dr. iur.), 1984

Languages

• German, English

“Firm-wide head of corporate/M&A Horst Ebhardt acts on complex cross-border mandates including transactions, privatisations and restructuring mandates. Sources describe him as “very precise and thorough, and completely reliable.”

(Chambers Global 2018)