Clemens Philipp Schindler

Partner
Rechtsanwalt | Attorney at Law
Steuerberater | Tax Advisor

Clemens Philipp Schindler is a founding partner at Schindler Attorneys. Before establishing the firm, Clemens spent six years as a partner at WOLF THEISS, where he led some of the firm’s most prestigious transactions. Prior to that, he practiced with Haarmann Hemmelrath in Munich and Vienna as well as with Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York.

In his work, Clemens focuses on corporate and tax advice in relation to public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate reorganizations, such as mergers, spin-offs and migrations, most of which have a cross-border element. Furthermore, he specializes in joint ventures and international holding structures. Clemens is often retained for complex corporate law advice, including corporate governance issues, by major listed and non-listed companies. His practice is complemented by private client work, e.g., as counsel to family offices and shareholders in closely held companies.

In addition to law degrees from the University of Vienna (Dr. iur.) and New York University School of Law (LL.M. Int’l Tax), Clemens also holds degrees in business administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (Dr. rer. soc. oec.).

Clemens is admitted in Austria both as an attorney at law and as a certified public tax advisor. He has (co-)authored more than fifty articles, books and commentaries in his fields of expertise and is much sought after both as a chair and as a speaker at conferences and seminars. For seven years, Clemens served as a panelist at the Kienbaum Kamingespräche on corporate governance topics.

International legal directories such as Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Legal500, IFLR1000 and WHO’S WHO LEGAL rank Clemens for his corporate and tax expertise. The German legal directory JUVE lists Clemens as one of Austria’s top twenty lawyers for corporate/M&A, whereas WHO’S WHO LEGAL selected him as one of only eight “Global Elite Thought Leaders” in EMEA for tax. Other rankings include those published by the Austrian business periodical Trend, which names Clemens as one of the top ten lawyers in Austria in the areas of corporate/M&A and tax, and “Best-Lawyers Austria” in the German newspaper Handelsblatt. Besides his many listings for Austria, Chambers also acknowledges his Brazilian market experience in a special ranking for outstanding expertise in foreign jurisdictions.