Thomas Haberer has been a partner at KWR since 2017 and specialises in corporate law and company law. He regularly advises well-known national and international clients on all aspects of corporate, company and capital markets law, including company/share acquisitions, corporate governance and reorganisations.
He worked as an assistant at the Institute for Civil Law, Commercial Law and Securities Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (with Prof. Christian Nowotny) from 1998 and at the Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Vienna (with Prof. Heinz Krejci) from 2002. In 2009 he was awarded the authorisation to teach the subjects "Corporate and Private Commercial Law" at the University of Vienna, since then he has been a private lecturer at the Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law.
Thomas Haberer was an associate at a renowned commercial law firm from 2003 to 2006. He successfully passed the bar exam in 2005. Thomas Haberer joined KWR in 2011, first as an associate, then as an attorney at law and since 2017 as a partner.
Functions and other activities
- Ongoing teaching, lecturing and publishing activities in corporate, company, accounting and competition law.
- Author of over 70 publications, including the "Handbuch zum Konzernrecht" (Manz 2016, co-edited with Heinz Krejci, team of 30 authors), "Zwingendes Kapitalgesellschaftsrecht. Rechtfertigung und Grenzen" (Manz 2009, published version of the habilitation thesis) and "Corporate Governance. Austria-Germany-international (Manz 2002, published version of the dissertation).
List of publications by Thomas Haberer
Practice areas
Corporate M/A, Succession Planning
Specialization
Corporate Law, Company Law, Succession Planning
Education
University of Vienna (Mag. iur. 1998 and Dr. iur. 2002), Vienna University of Economics and Business (Mag. rer. soc. oec. 1999), Stays abroad at the London School of Economics (LSE, 1995) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris, 1998), Bar exam (2005), research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Hamburg (2008), habilitation (2009)
Languages
German, English, French