Raoul Hoffer is a partner firm's Competition Law Team. He has more than 25 years of experience in advising Austrian and international clients from a large number of industries on all questions of Austrian and EU Antitrust and Competition Law.
He focuses on
- Austrian and European merger control
- Austrian and European antitrust law
- compliance and internal investigations/eDiscovery audits
- private enforcement - proceedings before civil courts
- EU state aid law
Raoul is recognised in Legal 500 (2026) in the EU and Competition Hall of Fame and is ranked by Chambers Europe 2026 in Band 1 for Competition/European Law. JUVE (Österreich edition 2025) counts him among Austria’s leading names in antitrust law. He is also listed in the latest edition of Lexology Index, co-published with Global Competition Review.
He has been with Binder Grösswang since 1991. He received his PhD from the University of Vienna (Dr. iur.) in 1992 and his postgraduate degree (LL.M.) from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1994.
Raoul regularly publishes on topics related to antitrust and merger control.
He is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht.