Christoph Schober
Partner, Mag., MLB (BLS)
Christoph Schober is a partner in the firm’s Corporate / M&A Team. He advises on corporate and commercial matters, with a focus on complex M&A transactions. He has several years of experience advising both target companies and investors in national and international transactions. His particular expertise includes advising on M&A-auctions and M&A-bidding processes in various industries (including the automotive technology, medical technology, plastics, software, media and packaging industries).
He focuses on
- cross-border M&A transactions
- venture capital and start-up financing
- founding and structuring
- joint ventures and strategic alliances
Christoph is ranked as "often recommended" in the 2025 edition of JUVE Corporate/M&A.
He studied law at the University of Vienna and the London School of Economics (Mag. iur). In spring of 2018, Christoph Schober passed the Austrian bar exam and subsequently completed a Master of Law and Business (MLB) at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany, where he graduated with honours in 2019. From 2019 to 2020, he worked at Hogan Lovells International LLP in Hamburg. He is a member of the Bucerius Alumni Association.
- Advising Mayr-Melnhof Karton AG on the sale of the TANN Group
- Advising holding company GSS GmbH (Springer family) on the sale of 100% of the shares in all companies of the MiCROTEC Group
- Advising Semperit AG Holding on the sale of its medical business to glove manufacturer HARPS and on the acquisition of the Rico Group
- Advising Aptiv Technologies on the acquisition and subsequent sale of a stake in TTTech Auto AG
- Advising Cryoshelter GmbH on Hexagon’s entry as an investor in its liquefied natural gas and liquid hydrogen business, and on the founders’ (Rebernig family) 100% exit
- Advising Schmid Industrie Holding (Schmid family) on the sale of Wolf Plastics Group to ALPLA
- Advising OLMeRO AG on the acquisition of all shares in INFO-TECHNO Baudatenbank GmbH from WEKA Holding GmbH
- Advising Greenbriar Equity Group on the acquisition of Frauscher Sensor Technology Group
- Advising P & V Holding AG (Taus family) on the sale of Hölzel Verlag to the Westermann Group
- Advising Talanx Asset Management GmbH on the sale of a share package in C-QUADRAT to Cubic Limited
- Advising certain members of the Hinteregger family (sellers of Salzburger Baugesellschaft Hinteregger) on the sale of all shares to Porr AG
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Advising Tamedia Group on the acquisition and sale of stakes in the Heute newspaper
„Very advanced for his age; always keeps his cool, also during tough negotiations; always reachable for me.”
„Christoph Schober ist immer erreichbar, versteht unser Business und ist sehr verlässlich.”
„Christoph Schober is a newly minted partner, with all the good things which come with that - energy, dynamism, hard work. He commands respect from his team and his peers.”
„Christoph Schober is up and coming.”