Lukas Leitner

Dr.iur., LL.M. (Columbia)
Partner

Background

With SAXINGER since 2010
Graduate Studies at Juridicum, Vienna and at HSG, St Gallen; Graduation (Mag.iur.), 2008
PHD (Dr.iur.) (with distinction) at the Department for Corporate and Business Law, Juridicum Vienna on Disclosure Regulation of Cash-Settled Equity Derivatives, 2012
Master of Laws (LL.M.), Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Columbia Law School, Columbia University, New York, 2015
Bucerius Legal Management Program, Vienna 2017
Bar exam, Vienna 2012 (with distinction), admitted to the Vienna bar, 2014
New York State Bar Exam, 2015, admitted to the New York bar, 2017

Expertise

Lukas Leitner primarily advises in the field of (cross-border) real estate and M & A transactional work and on regulatory issued related thereto. He also has experience in advising clients in relation to the structuring, setting up and registration of (alternative) investment funds.

References

Advised Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing on the acquisition and refinancing of the mixed used real estate complex "Millennium City / Millennium Tower" in Handelskai 94-96, 1200 Vienna, with a total area of 92.700 sqm.
Advised Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing on the acquisition of the mixed used real estate complex Wien Mitte including the shopping center "The Mall".
Advised Conwert Immobilien Invest SE on the sale of its entire Czech real estate portfolio with a total area of 46,249 sqm.
Advised Soravia on the development and sale of the Austro Tower, one of the tallest office towers in Austria, to the German real estate investor Deka Immobilien
Advised founder Susanne Kaufmann on Manzanita's Acquisition of Majority Stake in Susanne Kaufmann Cosmetics
Advised Norway-based, listed Hexagon Composites ASA and Hexagon Purus ASA on their investment in Cryoshelter GmbH
Advised the owners of VDS Holding GmbH on the sale of a majority shareholding in Weichai Power Co, Ltd, a Chinese listed company specializing in research, development, manufacturing and distribution of diesel engines
Advised the operator of one of the leading crowdinvesting platforms in Austria on the launch of its crowdinvesting model
Advised Medlog, a global logistics provider, on its acquisition of JKT Trucking