Lukas Leitner

Dr.iur., LL.M. (Columbia)
Partner

Background

Lukas has been with SAXINGER since 2010. He completed his graduate studies at the Juridicum in Vienna in 2008, and went on to earn a PhD in Corporate Law from the same institution in 2012. In 2015, he received an LL.M. from Columbia Law School in New York, where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Lukas also completed the Bucerius Legal Management Program in Vienna in 2017. He passed the Bar exam in Vienna in 2012 and was admitted to the Vienna bar in 2014, later passing the New York State Bar Exam in 2015 and joining the New York bar in 2017.

Expertise

Lukas Leitner primarily advises in the field of (cross-border) real estate and M & A transactional work and on regulatory issued related thereto. He also has experience in advising clients in relation to the structuring, setting up and registration of (alternative) investment funds.

References

Advised Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing on the acquisition and refinancing of the mixed used real estate complex "Millennium City / Millennium Tower" in Handelskai 94-96, 1200 Vienna, with a total area of 92.700 sqm.
Advised Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing on the acquisition of the mixed used real estate complex Wien Mitte including the shopping center "The Mall".
Advised Conwert Immobilien Invest SE on the sale of its entire Czech real estate portfolio with a total area of 46,249 sqm.
Advised Soravia on the development and sale of the Austro Tower, one of the tallest office towers in Austria, to the German real estate investor Deka Immobilien
Advised founder Susanne Kaufmann on Manzanita's Acquisition of Majority Stake in Susanne Kaufmann Cosmetics
Advised Norway-based, listed Hexagon Composites ASA and Hexagon Purus ASA on their investment in Cryoshelter GmbH
Advised the owners of VDS Holding GmbH on the sale of a majority shareholding in Weichai Power Co, Ltd, a Chinese listed company specializing in research, development, manufacturing and distribution of diesel engines
Advised the operator of one of the leading crowdinvesting platforms in Austria on the launch of its crowdinvesting model
Advised Medlog, a global logistics provider, on its acquisition of JKT Trucking