Christian Temmel

Partner

Christian Temmel is great to work with. He is very knowledgeable and commercial.

— Client, Legal 500 EMEA 2021

About

Areas of FocusCorporate Financial Services Equity Capital Markets Debt Capital Markets Corporate and Securities Disputes Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity Emerging Growth and Venture Capital Structured Finance and Securitization Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations Media, Sport and Entertainment Employment

Professional QualificationsRechtsanwalt registered with Rechtsanwaltskammer Wien

EXPERIENCE

Advising Chinese listed Jiecang Group on its EUR 80 million acquisition of Austrian headquartered international Logicdata Group.
Advising Vienna-based real estate developer UBM Development on the successful placement of the first retail sustainability-linked bond in the Eurozone. The demand for this sustainability-linked Bond was extremely high, the volume of the bond was increased from EUR 125 million to EUR 150 million, and the books very closed within hours.
Advising Vienna-based real estate developer UBM Development on the successful placement of its first EUR 100 million sustainability-linked subordinated bond.
Advising PORR AG as issuer in the course of a EUR 125 million capital increase by way of a rights offering and a rump placement - the only public subscription rights offering of shares under the Prospectus Regulation in Austria in 2021.
Advising PORR AG on the issuance of a EUR 50 million hybrid bond with simultaneous exchange offer (tender offer) for the hybrid bond for the EUR 125 million hybrid bond 2017-2022.
Advising Erste Group Bank AG (in its capacity as underwriter and sole global coordinator) as underwriters' counsel on the EUR 50 million green bond issue of S IMMO AG under the EUR 300 million 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 Caroo 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 in an exchange offer for old bonds and the parallel issue of a new EUR 120m bond: this was the first capital market transaction to be carried out with a prospectus based on the new European prospectus regime.
Advising Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment AG and acting as independent proxy together with three other law firms and the Investors' Association (Interessensverband der Anleger (IVA)) at the general meeting of Schoeller-Bleckmann Oilfield Equipment Aktiengesellschaft - the very first ever virtual general meeting of a listed company in any German-speaking country.
Advising Warimpex on the establishment of a share buyback programme, which included inter alia, the preparation of the required resolutions by the shareholders' meeting, the corporate resolutions by the management board and the supervisory board, the buyback terms, the preparation of the required pre-start publications, as well as the documentation for the on-going reporting.
Advising Erste Group Bank AG, SEB, Credit Agricole and Deutsche Bank in their capacity as joint lead managers and dealers for the EUR 500m bond issuance under the EUR 1bn debt issuance programme by voestalpine AG.

Languages

Education

University of Oxford, Said Business School, MBA, 2004

University of Vienna, Dr. iur., 2001

University of Vienna, Mag. iur., 1996

Awards

Publications

Christian Temmel regularly speaks on capital markets, corporate and takeover law at expert seminars and conferences, and is the author of many books, articles and papers, including:

Kommentar zum GmbHG (Commentary on the Austrian Act on Limited Liability Companies) (co-author), Linde Verlag, 2018
Handbuch Wirtschaftsverträge (Handbook Business Agreements) (co-editor and co-author), 3,504 pages, LexisNexis, 2012
Kommentar zum Börsegesetz (Commentary on the Austrian Stock Exchange Act) (Sole editor and co-author), LexisNexis, 2011

Prior Experience

Prior to cooperation with DLA Piper, Christian worked with another renown business law firm in Austria and as a teaching and research assistant at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna.

Lecturer

Christian is a lecturer of corporate and securities law at the University of Vienna and of capital markets law at the Danube University Krems.