Florian Khol

Partner, Dr.

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Florian Khol is managing partner of the firm and a partner in the firm's Corporate/M&A and Capital Markets Teams and has over 20 years of experience in advising national and international issuers, banks, listed companies and investment funds on domestic and cross-border capital markets transactions.

He focuses on

M&A transactions
capital markets
capital market compliance, market abuse subjects
takeover law

Florian is listed by Chambers Global 2025 and Legal 500 (2025) as one of the leading lawyers in Corporate/M&A and Capital Markets and is listed as a "highly regarded lawyer" in the 2025 edition of IFLR1000.

He began his career with Binder Grösswang in 1998 and was appointed Partner in 2006. Florian received his PhD from the University of Innsbruck (Dr. iur.) in 1997.

Florian is a member of Aktienforum (Austrian Association for stock issuers and investors) and Vice Chairman of the IBA Securities Law Committee. He is the author of numerous publications on capital markets and corporate law.

Counsel to Andritz AG on the acquisition of Xerium Technologies Inc.
Counsel to Mayr-Melnhof Group on the acquisition of TANN Group
Counsel to founding shareholders of ARGO S.A. on the sale of ARGO.S.A. (Greece) to ALPLA group
Counsel to the investor in all stages of the acquisition of a 40% shareholding, achieved through a capital increase, in the TEKPOINT group
Advising the Lenzing AG in its formation of a Joint Venture with Brasilian Duratex S.A to built to build a Dissolving Wood Pulp Plant
Advising the international PE Investor Insight on the access in Tricentis
Advising the Talanx Asset Management GmbH on the sale of a share package of C-QUADRAT to Cubic Limited
Advising the conwert SE as target company in a defended public takeover
Issuance of a EUR 350m Corporate Bond by UNIQA Insurance Group AG, Underwriter‘s Counsel
Capital increase and secondary of Lenzing AG (Issuer's Counsel)
Capital increase of BKS Bank AG (Issuer’s Counsel)
Capital increase of Oberbank AG (Issuer’s Counsel)
Capital increase of Wiener Städtische Versicherung AG Vienna Insurance Group (Underwriter’s counsel)
Advising the voestalpine AG in its public takeover bid of stock exchange listed Böhler Uddeholm AG and subsequent squeeze out
Advising the Salzburger Landes-Hypothekenbank Aktiengesellschaft on the structuring of an offering programme for bonds
Advising the Bankhaus Krentschker & Co AG on the structuring of an offering programme for bonds
Advising the Steiermärkische Bank and Sparkassen AG on the structuring of an offering programme for bonds
Ongoing advice on stock exchange relevant compliance and reporting obligation especially on ad-hoc reporting, insider dealing and market manipulation
Advising Bilfinger on the sales process of Bilfinger MCE GmbH to the Austrian Habau Group
Advising the mbi on the sales process of Anger Machining Group to the Taiwanese Tongtai Group
Advising Lenzing on the sale of the German Dolan and the German European Carbon Fibre to the German PE investor Alpina Partners
Advising the Cisco Group on the acquisition of SolveDirect
Advising the Xi’an Aircraft Industry (Group) Company Ltd. on its majority acquisition of FACC AG
Advising Lenzing AG on the sales process of the sectors Blechtechnik to the Austrian GER4TECH, Automation & Robotics to the German cts group and Leno Electronics GmbH to the Austrian MELECS group

Profile

He focuses on

M&A transactions
capital markets
capital market compliance, market abuse subjects
takeover law

He began his career with Binder Grösswang in 1998 and was appointed Partner in 2006. Florian received his PhD from the University of Innsbruck (Dr. iur.) in 1997.

Experience

He knows how to involve people even in difficult situations and speaks the language of board members.

Chambers Global, Corporate/ M&A

Very experienced contact person, giving very quick feedback.

Chambers Global, Capital Markets

Florian Khol is an excellent partner for finding well-thought, clear structured and business oriented legal solutions.

Legal500, Capital Markets

His delivery and performance were very high, he knew what to focus on and he was very pleasant to work with.

Chambers Europe, Corporate/M&A

Excellent M&A lawyer and outstanding in capital markets. Compared to his peer he is less focussed on self-advertising than providing first class advice and support! Therefore he is still underrated and underestimated. Excellent network.

IFLR1000, Corporate/M&A

He is a goal-oriented, flexible, strong communicator and leader.

Chambers Europe, Corporate/M&A