And another year comes to an end: 2024 was challenging, instructive, labour-intensive - and equally successful for our clients and us: We awarded (and co-opened) the most beautiful Christmas market in Austria, recognised e-sports as a sport, reversed Brexit to a small extent through our review and advice, awarded the largest aquarium in Central Europe, prevented combination bets from qualifying as games of chance, won all of this year's procurement control proceedings - but avoided even more procurement control proceedings, cleared up a major databreach, issued over 150 legal opinions, launched E Law (e.g. GDPR, MedienG, NIS 2 RL), implemented an IT innovation partnership within a very short space of time, allowed drones to fly, saved advertising media, tendered electricity, diesel, auditing services, e-buses, marketing services, image advertising, museum facilities, sports canteens, city bikes, architectural services ... tendered, solved the most difficult data protection problems, dealt with sustainability services on a long-term basis, advised on counter-transactions, settled disagreements within companies as well as between friendly companies (which is particularly challenging), saved a denominational school (at least once in terms of building law), challenged the tobacco monopoly, won a legally binding licence for state gambling, negotiated difficult regulatory issues, made theatre in the Prater, lectured, published and taught, celebrated 20 years of the law firm ...

On behalf of our entire team, we would like to thank you for the trust you have placed in us. We wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2025, which we hope will be just as challenging, instructive, labor-intensive and successful!

Walter Schwartz | Katharina Huber-Medek

And another year comes to an end: 2023 was challenging, instructive, intensive - and for our clients and us equally successful: We prevailed in the issue of cross-border procurement procedures before the ECJ, won the promotion bet before the Supreme Administrative Court in time before EURO 2024, put restaurant businesses out to tender, awarded exhibition architecture, won a control procedure on “digital signatures”, put a Christmas and Easter market out to tender, awarded a community center in Lower Austria, won the “first round” of a licensing procedure for provincial broadcasts, ensured a fresher Internet presence in the classical music business, started the procurement of a species conservation aquarium, provided over 100 legal reports, provided advice on media management, turned a branch pharmacy into a full pharmacy, found a way out for road vehicle procurements, reversed an unlawful utility tax prescription by simply declaring it to have legal effect, prepared the procurement of a natural burial facility, bought switches, clarified COFAG services in terms of state aid law, procured market research services, rocked construction law, impartially assessed biases, proved bad German to the Constitutional Court, cleared up the mystery surrounding e-sports, solved complex data protection problems, found a lost cat after 14 days ...

On behalf of our entire team, we would like to thank you for the trust you have placed in us. We wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2024, which we hope will be just as challenging, instructive, labor-intensive and successful!

Walter Schwartz | Katharina Huber-Medek

And another year comes to an end: 2022 was challenging, instructive, intensive - and successful for our clients and us alike: We put e-buses out to tender, ensured ground handling at an airport, supported the renovation of a summer arena, ensured flight safety, beautified the Neuer Markt, won recognition for a religious community after twelve years of proceedings, awarded drone software, found a way out for road vehicle procurements, artificial intelligence, did "brilliant work" at Euro Millions, supported the market entry of a slow-down drink, represented a German provider in difficult questions of electricity market regulation before the Federal Administrative Court and the Constitutional Court, proved to a magistrate that EUR 8.00 is more than EUR 5.00, awarded on-site inspections of slaughterhouses, rocked environmental law, sold a gambling company, settled a difficult inheritance, proved that an adjoining room is also part of the business premises, saved a pharmacy company, made hotels on Lake Neusiedl and in the city centre possible, accompanied the tendering process for provincial gambling, supported an amusement park with its expansion, procured large medical-technical equipment, solved complex data protection problems, completely renovated a Christmas market, opened a media location with a multimedia newsroom, enabled assisted living, contested recovery requests from the European Commission, provided beach volleyball, received honours ....

On behalf of our entire team - which has grown again this year - we would like to thank you for the trust you have placed in us. We wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2023, which we hope will be just as challenging, instructive, labour-intensive and successful!

Walter Schwartz | Katharina Huber-Medek

We also worked here - but we didn't come up with anything fun for the Corona period.

And another year comes to a close: 2019 was challenging, instructive, intensive – and equally successful for our clients and for us. We initiated the tender process for a new Vienna Stadthalle, established a private foundation and associations, tendered ground handling services for an airport, won administrative penalty cases before the regional administrative courts that seemed unwinnable, voiced our opinions in the press, tendered the planning of a vinotheque, challenged the WRKG before the Constitutional Court, prepared official appeals, helped save the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, demonstrated the legality of hybrid thermal systems, contributed to bringing Formula E to Vienna, arranged for digital experiences and audio guides in Schönbrunn, procured court damask, proved the admissibility of cross-border procurement, negotiated contracts with the VOR, secured a preliminary ruling procedure before the European Court of Justice regarding the WWAG, enforced the release of seized betting terminals, tendered audit services for a regulator, supported the production of industrial hemp products, advised on the sale of shares in a social housing company, solved complex data protection issues, submitted more than a dozen statements on amendments to regional laws, and achieved a change in case law before the Administrative Court in medical law, represented questions of religious freedom before the European Court of Human Rights, prevented the dissolution of associations, rejected unjustified requests for information, supported our clients in municipal council meetings, and contested recovery claims by the European Commission …

On behalf of our entire team, we would like to thank you for the trust you have placed in us over the past year. We wish you and your loved ones a blessed Christmas and a happy New Year 2020 – one that will hopefully be just as challenging, instructive, intensive, and successful!

Walter Schwartz | Katharina Huber-Medek

And another year comes to a close: 2018 was challenging, instructive, intensive – and equally successful for our clients and for us. We helped create a new city brand for Vienna and tendered gastronomy quality seals, developed a model for property auctions, overturned a building code amendment, arranged for the renovation of kindergartens and schools, procured the mobile outlet of the finest ice cream for Schönbrunn, enforced the release of betting terminals, promoted the production of industrial hemp, made tennis games eligible for betting, facilitated outdoor advertising in Vienna, preserved Vienna’s iconic cube clocks, set limits for the VOR, stood up to ÖBB, supported our clients in proceedings before audit offices, overturned an unlawful business closure, contested the imposition of BRZ costs and thus permanently reduced them, contributed to the restoration of a baroque ornamental garden, guided high-profile restructuring proceedings, successfully implemented anti-claim management in the tens of millions, and saved building permits for major residential construction projects from annulment …

On behalf of our entire team, we would like to thank you for the trust you have placed in us over the past year. We wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2019, which we hope will be just as challenging, instructive, intensive and successful!

Walter Schwartz | Katharina Huber-Medek