In one of the largest corporate reorganisations in the Austrian banking sector unlisted RZB merged with listed Central and European banking specialist RBI.

Schoenherr provided corporate and regulatory advice as well as due diligence support to RBI. The RBI legal team prepared a significant part of the corporate documentation in-house and Schoenherr worked closely with them on the drafting and implementation side.

The Schoenherr team was led by Peter Feyl (partner, banking & finance) and Roman Perner (partner, corporate/m&a), who were supported in Vienna by Stefan Paulmayer (counsel, banking & finance); Clemens Rainer (attorney at law, corporate/m&a); Stefanie Wöss (attorney at law, corporate/m&a); Matthias Pressler (associate, banking & finance); and Martina Hiebl (associate, banking & finance). The CEE team members were: Arijana Petres (partner, Zagreb; banking & finance); Ozren Kobsa (attorney at law, Zagreb; banking & finance); Natálie Rosová  (attorney at law, Prague; banking & finance); Paweł  Halwa (partner, Warsaw; banking & finance); Marcin Antczak (attorney at law, Warsaw; banking & finance); Matei Florea (partner, Bucharest; banking & finance); Carmen Ştirbu  (attorney at law, Bucharest; banking & finance); Sandu Costin (attorney at law, Bucharest; banking & finance); Soňa Hekelová (partner, Bratislava; banking & finance); and Alexandra Adamičková (associate, Bratislava; banking & finance).