Contact:

+43 1 532 12 10 / s.geppert@bkp.at

Year of Birth:

1969

Areas of Specialisation:

Banking Law, stock exchange law and capital market law, advises banks and investment funds on regulatory law, reorganisations, M&A, private foundations

Languages:

German, English and French

Education and Professional Experience:

1989 through 1992 research assistant at the University of Vienna Law School, 1992 Mag. jur., University of Vienna; 1993 through 1994 lawyer at the secretariat of the European Commission for Human Rights; student at the University of Chicago Law School, USA (LL.M. 1996); 1997 admitted to the New York Bar; 2000 admitted to the Vienna Bar; 2000 through 2001 attorney-at-law at Hausmaninger Herbst Wietrzyk.

Teaching and Lecturing Activities:

1992 through 2005 university lecturer on French legal terminology at the University of Vienna Law School; regular lectures on investment fund law, alternative forms of business financing, due diligence

Publications:

• Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für Alternative Investments in Österreich (in cooperation with Nora Engel) in: Busack / Kaiser (Ed.) Handbuch Alternative Investments, Gabler | GWV Fachverlage Wiesbaden 2006 
• Die Rechtsnatur und Durchsetzbarkeit von Corporate Governance Regeln, in: Prändl/Geppert/Göth (Ed.), Corporate Governance Kodex, Manz Verlag 2003
• Stock Options in Österreich: Rechtliche Grundlagen, Rahmenbedingungen und ausgewählte rechtliche Probleme bei der Umsetzung, in: Siegwart/Mahari/Ehrat/Stupp (Ed.), 195 et seq, Management & Law 2003
• Corporate Governance in Österreich, ÖJZ 2002, 781 et seq
• Die Bedeutung des Artikel 6 MRK für die Verhängung von Ordnungs- und Mutwillensstrafen, JBl 1996, 159 u. 227 (co-author)