Vavrovsky Heine Marth Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Our focus is your advantage.

Vavrovsky Heine Marth is a corporate law firm specialising in Dispute Resolution and Real Estate.

In terms of clients, team size and experience, we are among the most successful and recognized law firms in Austria. The consistent high quality of our work has been confirmed by numerous national and international awards.

We offer our clients a comprehensive service at every stage of their engagement with us, along with invaluable experience and the necessary resources. We are interconnected in our thinking and interdisciplinary in our actions. The advantages of our specializations can be measured by the success of our clients.

Dispute Resolution
With an emphasis on solution.

Dispute Resolution is our business. In this respect, we are among the best law firms in Austria, as confirmed by numerous national and international rankings.

Our focus on your cause is without compromise. From the start, a highly specialised team will attend you personally, attentively and with relentless energy. It is not surprising that so many of our clients see a real advantage for themselves in our way of resolving disputes.

Real Estate

In Real Estate Vavrovsky Heine Marth provides end-to-end support over the whole lifecycle of property. This approach has made us a leading one-stop service provider in the field of real estate and construction law, supporting clients in the core legal aspects of real estate while also taking account of the overlaps with other legal and professional fields, such as corporate and finance, regulatory and dispute resolution.

Supporting clients in national and cross-border real estate transactions is an important core expertise in our service portfolio. We cover all asset classes (commercial, office and residential properties) as well as micro-living projects. Our clients include companies and individuals, as well as a large number of national and international real estate funds.

Vavrovsky Heine Marth also has long-standing experience in advising and representing national and international property developers in the residential and commercial sectors as well as in the luxury and hotel segment. We advise clients in the purchase, sale and financing of real estate and property portfolios, urban and real estate development and large-scale letting and leasing.

Expertise built on tradition

Our Salzburg Office epitomizes continuity of tradition and long-standing experience. Since 1970, it has been headed by Karl Ludwig Vavrovsky, one of the region's leading lawyers. He and his team provide expert counsel in all matters of general business law with a particular focus on insolvency, corporate recovery and restructuring, as well as private clients.

Meet our partners:

Nikolaus Vavrovsky is among the leading litigators in Vienna. He handles cases of extreme complexity and high value. In addition, Nikolaus has gained a remarkable reputation as one of the most experienced and in-demand arbitration practitioners in the market. He represents clients before national and international arbitration tribunals in both ad-hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings, especially under the auspices of ICC, VIAC and DIS. Furthermore, Nikolaus is regularly appointed as sole or co-arbitrator and chairman of high-calibre tribunals. His focus mainly lies on post-M&A as well as corporate and finance. Nikolaus is also particularly esteemed for his expertise in real estate, infrastructure and construction related disputes.

Dieter Heine is one of the country’s go-to litigators for highly sensitive, high stakes cases which are expected to be long-running and often have significant political or media implications. He is recommended by several respected international legal directories as one of Austria's leading dispute resolution experts. In Controversy he primarily focuses on conflict prevention, complex commercial litigation, as well as alternative and consensual dispute resolution, with a strong emphasis on competition law as well as IP, IT & media law. His experience is amply reflected in his track record consisting of matters where the continued success of entire industries is at stake.

Christian Marth is clearly a leading professional in real estate law. His expertise is widely recognized both nationally and internationally by renowned legal directories. Best known as a specialist in national and cross-border real estate transactions, he regularly advises high-profile clients from the retail, hotel, commercial as well as the public sector. His client roster also comprises several public entities, real estate investors and developers. Another main focus lies on advising and representing open real estate funds. Clients often describe him as a true deal maker who knows the market like the back of his hand.

Florian Stefan has extensive experience in representing clients before international commercial and investment arbitration tribunals under the rules of leading arbitral institutions. He represents clients across a broad range of industries, including telecommunications, energy, infrastructure, technology and real estate. Florian is admitted to the bar in Austria. He is a graduate of the University of Vienna and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In addition to his international arbitration practice, Florian regularly advises in connection with international commercial contracts, with a particular focus on complex licensing and distribution agreements.

Lisa Haslinger is head of the firm's office in Linz. She specialises in real estate law and public economic law with a particular focus on construction law, regional planning, law governing industrial plants as well as EIA Law. Lisa also advises clients regularly and comprehensively on real estate development projects. She brings special expertise in drafting of contracts related to project development, such as purchase agreements, building rights agreements, regional planning agreements, easement agreements and lease agreements (office, commercial and residential), and also represents clients before authorities and courts throughout the entire process in planning and permitting procedures.

Another focus of Lisa's advice is commercial tenancy law (retail, office, hotel).