Dario Schmelz
Attorney at law, Mag.
Area of expertise
Languages
English, GermanDario Schmelz is an attorney at law in the firm’s Dispute Resolution Team and advises national and international clients in all litigious as well as white-collar-crime related matters.
He focuses on
- commercial litigation
- representation in construction-, plant engineering-, distribution- and insurance disputes
- automotive
- white collar crime
- asset tracing and recovery
Dario has been with Binder Grösswang since 2020. Previously, he gathered experience with a renowned law firm specialized in litigation and as a judicial clerk at the Public Prosecutor’s Office (Vienna).
Dario studied law at the University of Vienna (Mag. iur, 2019) and simultaneously worked as a paralegal in a commercial law firm in the areas banking and insurance law. In January 2023, he passed the Austrian bar exam with distinction.
For reasons of confidentiality names are not included in the following.
- Defense against insurance coverage claims of an auditor after the bankruptcy of the audited Austrian bank
- Advising a leading packaging manufacturer on asserting warranty and damage compensation claims against the plant manufacturer
- Defense of warranty-, damage compensation- and product liability claims in the automotive sector
- Representing one of the leaders in increasing energy efficiency for industry in a cross-border civil litigation regarding contractual disputes in connection with the remediation of a power plant
- Regular representation of an insurance company in coverage disputes
- Representing creditors' interests in a large-scale insolvency of an Austrian real estate company and securing and recovering assets (“asset tracing and recovery”)
Profile
Dario Schmelz is an attorney at law in the firm’s Dispute Resolution Team and advises national and international clients in all litigious as well as white-collar-crime related matters.
He focuses on
- commercial litigation
- representation in construction-, plant engineering-, distribution- and insurance disputes
- automotive
- white collar crime
- asset tracing and recovery
Dario has been with Binder Grösswang since 2020. Previously, he gathered experience with a renowned law firm specialized in litigation and as a judicial clerk at the Public Prosecutor’s Office (Vienna).
Dario studied law at the University of Vienna (Mag. iur, 2019) and simultaneously worked as a paralegal in a commercial law firm in the areas banking and insurance law. In January 2023, he passed the Austrian bar exam with distinction.
Experience
For reasons of confidentiality names are not included in the following.
- Defense against insurance coverage claims of an auditor after the bankruptcy of the audited Austrian bank
- Advising a leading packaging manufacturer on asserting warranty and damage compensation claims against the plant manufacturer
- Defense of warranty-, damage compensation- and product liability claims in the automotive sector
- Representing one of the leaders in increasing energy efficiency for industry in a cross-border civil litigation regarding contractual disputes in connection with the remediation of a power plant
- Regular representation of an insurance company in coverage disputes
- Representing creditors' interests in a large-scale insolvency of an Austrian real estate company and securing and recovering assets (“asset tracing and recovery”)
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