Christian Knauder-Sima

• Advising PORR AG as issuer in the course of a nearly EUR125m capital increase by way of a rights offering and a rump placement: Successful structuring and implementation of this capital increase as the only public subscription rights offering of shares under the Prospectus Regulation in Austria in 2021.
• Advising PORR AG on the issuance of a nearly EUR50m hybrid bond with simultaneous exchange offer (tender offer) for the EUR125m hybrid bond 2017-2022.
• Advising UBM Development AG, a Vienna-based real estate developer, on the successful issuance of its first EUR100m sustainability-linked hybrid bond 2021.
• Advising UBM Development AG, a Vienna-based real estate developer, on the successful issuance of its first EUR150m sustainability-linked bond 2021. This was the first placement of a sustainability-related retail bond in the eurozone.
• Advising Chinese listed Jiecang Group on its EUR80m acquisition of Austrian headquartered international Logicdata Group.
• Advising Erste Group Bank AG (in its capacity as underwriter and sole global coordinator) as underwriters' counsel on the EUR50m green bond issue of S IMMO AG under the EUR300m issuance program of Austrian listed S IMMO AG.
• Advising Caroo Mobility GmbH, a sustainable car sharing start-up, on the issuance of the Eloop token. The Eloop Token is used to purchase e-vehicles of the Eloop car sharing fleet, investors get the opportunity to also use the e-cars themselves with the investment.
• Supporting UBM Development AG in an exchange offer for old bonds and the parallel issue of a new EUR120m bond: This was the first capital market transaction to be carried out with a prospectus based on the new European prospectus regime.
• Advising inter alia PORR AG and Warimpex on the implementation of share buyback programmes.
• Advising Erste Group Bank AG, SEB, Credit Agricole and Deutsche Bank in their capacity as joint lead managers and dealers for the EUR500m bond issuance under the EUR1bn debt issuance programme by voestalpine AG.

Monographs and Compilations

• Weilinger/Knauder/Miernicki (Hrsg), Commentary on the Austrian Payment Services Act 2018, Manz, 2022
• Knauder/Marzi/Temmel (Hrsg), Compendium Economic Contracts, LexisNexis, 2017
• Knauder, Water Framework Directive and selected issues of privatisation and liberalisation in laws pertaining to water, LexisNexis 2007

Press Releases

• "Porr AG erhöht Kapital um 122 Mio. Euro mit DLA Piper", Extrajournal.Net, 11 Nov 2021
• "UBM legt neue Nachhaltigkeitsanleihe auf: Die Kanzleien", Extrajournal.Net, 12 Jul 2021
• "Zahlungsdienstegesetz: Neuer Kommentar mit DLA Piper", Extrajournal.Net, 29 Jan 2021

Selected Publications

• Knauder, Legal Framework of the Group – Definition of the Group and Basic Terms, in Ruhm/Kerbl/Bernwieser (Hrsg), The Group in Corporate and Tax Law, Linde, 2021
• Knauder/Sima, Corporate Group Law, in Hausmaninger/Gratzl/Justich (Hrsg), Compendium Stock Corporation Act², LexisNexis, 2017
• Weilinger/Knauder, Commenting on specific provisions of the Austrian Payment Services Act, in Weilinger/Knauder/Miernicki (Hrsg), Commentary on the Austrian Payment Services Act 2018, Manz, 2022
• Weilinger/Knauder, Commenting on specific provisions of the Austrian Consumer Payment Account Act, in Weilinger (Hrsg), Commentary on the Austrian Consumer Payment Account Act, Manz, 2016
• Weilinger/Knauder, Commenting on specific provisions of the Austrian Limited Liability Companies Act, in Straube/Ratka/Rauter (Hrsg), Commentary on the Austrian Limited Liability Companies Act, Manz, 2015
• Knauder, Information rights and obligations of (individual) shareholders in M&A-transactions, in Althuber/Schopper (Hrsg), Compendium Asset Purchase and Due Diligence, Band I: Legal², LexisNexis 2015
• Knauder/Sima, Legal relationships in the preparation of corporate transactions², in Knauder/Marzi/Temmel (Hrsg), Compendium Economic Contracts, LexisNexis, 2013
• Althuber/Knauder/Prechtl-Aigner, Cross-border reorganizations in selected countries: Austria, in Beck'sches Compendium on International Reorganizations, C.H.Beck, 2013
• Knauder, Commenting on specific provisions of the Austrian Stock Exchange Act, in Temmel (Hrsg), Commentary on the Austrian Stock Exchange Act, LexisNexis, 2011

• Many years of lecturing and examining at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics of the University of Vienna (Private law, Corporate law, Group law, Capital Markets law, Accounting), first as assistant professor and now as lecturer
• Lecturer at the Faculty of Laws of the University of Vienna (Business law, Corporate law), 2005-2012
• Lecturer at University of Applied Sciences Campus Wien (Corporate law)
• Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt (Business law), 2012-2013
• Lecturer at other educational and training institutions: Austrian Notarial Academy, TÜV Nord Academy
• Research activities at the Department of Business Law at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna, focusing on corporate and capital markets law
• Research as part of his doctoral thesis in the areas of public (international) and European law as well as public commercial law