The Real Estate Team has comprehensively advised a leading English lifestyle and fitness company on the acquisition of building rights and the construction of a new club facility.
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Our client base is as diverse as the industries in which our clients operate. Whether market leader or market niche – Pitkowitz & Partners writes a success story in the most complex and largest cases on a national and international level. We stand by our clients as a reliable constant, even over the years, whether in litigation, arbitration or strategic consulting activities. Here you’ll find an extract from our practice:
The Real Estate Team has comprehensively advised a leading English lifestyle and fitness company on the acquisition of building rights and the construction of a new club facility.
Pitkowitz & Partners is counsel for a Baltic financial institution in an international arbitration concerning a back-to-back transaction with an Austria-based bank. The case involves complex and novel jurisdictional and banking & finance law issues resulting from a cross-border, multi-party securities transaction. The arbitral tribunal followed the novel arguments of our team under applicable substantive Austrian law and rendered an arbitral award dismissing all claims asserted by the Austria-based bank.
Dr. Nikolaus Pitkowitz is acting as party appointed arbitrator in a proceeding under ICC Rules regarding the adjustment of long-term energy contracts between two major European energy companies. The case involves legal questions of national and European Union law across several different legal areas, such as energy regulatory law, competition law and contract law. The value in dispute lies in excess of USD 100 million.
Dr. Nikolaus Pitkowitz is acting as Sole Arbitrator, jointly nominated by the parties, in a Vienna International Arbitration Centre (“VIAC”) dispute arising out of payment guarantees issued by an international group in favour of an Austrian bank. The case involves complex and novel issues of contract law as well as procedural law. The value in dispute lies in excess of USD 100 million.
Dr. Nikolaus Pitkowitz is acting as party appointed arbitrator in an ICC proceeding regarding a post-M&A dispute between two global leaders in the telecommunications industry. The case addresses not only technical details but also a wide spectrum of facts as well as complex contract and legal issues. The value in dispute lies in excess of USD 100 million.
Dr. Nikolaus Pitkowitz was acting as presiding arbitrator, jointly nominated by the parties, in an ICC arbitration seated in Switzerland relating to a payment dispute in the power plant industry. The case involved contracts in China and addressed issues of contract law and corruption.
Dr. Nikolaus Pitkowitz is acting as party appointed arbitrator in an ICC arbitration in a dispute relating to an international Airport in SEE. The dispute concerns issues under a concession agreement.
Nikolaus Pitkowitz is acting as party appointed arbitrator in a proceeding at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) with the seat of arbitration in Hong Kong, relating to a contract dispute among a Chinese and a Korean corporation. The disputes relates to a license agreement and IP rights for a highly popular Asian mobile game and addresses issues of contract law.
The team of Pitkowitz & Partners represented a leading Austrian consulting firm in its separation from an existing international network and its merger into a new international network. The place of arbitration was Zurich. The Dispute Resolution Team also assisted in complex strategic and legal issues (under Austrian, German, Swiss as well as New York law) as well as in corporate matters.
The team of Pitkowitz & Partners is representing a US-based global search engine leader in a dispute in the highly-topical area of the right to be forgotten. Thanks to our expert handling of this case, the Austrian Supreme Court found in favor of our client in interim relief proceedings.