Reich-Rohrwig
Rechtsanwalts GmbH
Prof. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is a lawyer in Vienna with a focus on corporate law, business law, inheritance law, contract law and litigation.
More than 40 years of professional experience and numerous relevant publications — in particular on GmbH law, stock corporation law and inheritance law — have contributed to Prof. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig's high professional and personal reputation in Austria.
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Clients particularly appreciate Prof. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig's pragmatic and straightforward approach; the profound legal analysis and answers to legal questions in his professional priorities; the consideration of advantages and disadvantages that could be associated with one or the other procedure.
The ultimate goal of my legal advice is to achieve the client's economic goals and interests while maintaining legal security and without unnecessary effort.
Many years of professional experience — combined with excellent knowledge of court practice and current case law — give our clients the security of careful and profound advice and representation.
Prof. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig has been a university lecturer in business and corporate law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna since 2004 and was awarded the title of university professor in 2008.
November 2025 – Verleihung des Goldenen Ehrenzeichens für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich an Johannes Reich-Rohrwig durch den Herrn Bundespräsidenten und Überreichung des Ehrenzeichens durch die Bundesministerin Eva-Maria Holzleitner, BSc.
Prof. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig gives lectures on the topics of “corporation law” (stock company, SE, GmbH, flexible corporation, cooperative), “GmbH and flexible corporation”, “practical contract drafting” with a focus on GmbH, GmbH & Co KG, civil law contracts such as sales contract, work contract, license agreement, employment contract, etc.
Prof. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig regularly gives lectures and in-house training courses for clients on the topics
- Real estate purchase agreement
- GmbH articles of association
- Inheritance law, compulsory share law
- Drafting wills correctly
- Current company law
- Flexible capital company
- Asset succession
- Private foundation law
- Rights, duties and liability of managing directors
- Transfer of companies, purchase of companies (M&A)
Advice and representation of private and business clients in the following areas
Comprehensive advice on corporate law
- Starting a business
- Advice to entrepreneurs, managing directors, board and supervisory board members
- Articles of association for GmbH, flexible corporation, open company, limited partnership
- Statute of a joint stock company and SE
- Advice to listed stock companies
- Joint venture agreement
- Syndicate agreement (voting agreement)
- Restructuring (transfer of companies from businesses, merger, division, transformation, merger, division of real estate)
- Cross-border reorganizations
Comprehensive advice on business law
- Preparation & negotiation of contracts
- Ongoing advice
- Reimbursement of legal opinions
- Review & settlement of claims
- Rental law advice for entrepreneurs
- Immo sales contracts
- Assignment agreements, share purchase agreements, M&A transactions
- General terms and conditions
The private client
- Advice on succession planning, structuring the transfer of assets to the next generation, also from the point of view of compulsory share law
- will
- Donation contract, transfer agreement, donation in case of death
- Donation subject to fruit participation rights or a life annuity
- Inheritance contract
- Inheritance and compulsory share waiver agreement
- Execution of wills
- Private foundation
Buying and selling real estate
- Sales contracts for land and single-family homes
- Buying, selling apartment buildings
- Tenancy law issues
Litigation before state courts and arbitration tribunals
- Representation in civil proceedings as a representative of plaintiffs, defendants or ancillary interveners, such as lawsuits for contract retention, compensation, contestation of shareholder resolutions
- Representation in proceedings involving preliminary injunctions, such as under competition law, deferral of contested shareholder resolutions or in the event of improper retrieval of a bank guarantee
- Representation in proceedings before the commercial register and in probate proceedings
- Representing litigants in arbitration proceedings before institutional arbitral tribunals, such as VIAC, Swiss Chamber or ICC, or in ad hoc arbitration tribunals
- Work as an arbitrator in arbitration proceedings
Awards
September 2025: Manz Verlag honors Johannes Reich-Rohrwig for his life's work.
November 2025: Award of the Golden Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria by Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen to Johannes Reich-Rohrwig.
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Prof. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig was named the best lawyer with the “Advocatus” in a survey conducted by the daily newspaper Die Presse in 2013. In the annual TREND lawyer ranking, he has been ranked among the top lawyers for corporate law from the outset.
Prof. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig was honored in numerous international rankings for 2025. For example, he is listed as Senior States People in Chambers Global and Chambers Europe in the Litigation category in Austria. The Legal 500 also honors his expertise several times: he is inducted into the Hall of Fame in the Private Client sector, and he is also named a Recommended Lawyer in the area of Dispute Resolution: Commercial Litigation.
In addition, Best Lawyers Prof. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig was one of Austria's best lawyers in several categories in 2025: mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, dispute resolution, and arbitration, dispute resolution and mediation.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is a respected lawyer specializing in business and corporate law as well as inheritance law and contract law.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig
Selected publications on the following topics
Corporate law
- Austrian GmbH Law (2nd edition, volume I 1996)
- Commentary on Sections 70 to 85 AktG on the legal status, duties and liability of the board of directors of the joint stock company
- Appointment and appointment of the GmbH managing director
- Fundamental issues of capital maintenance at AG, GmbH and GmbH & Co KG
- Prohibited deposit refund
- Commentary on the liability of the GmbH managing director (§ 25 in the Vienna Commentary on the GmbHG)
- IT organizational duties of the managing director
- Liability of managing directors: burden of proof, documentation requirements, inspection and retention rights
Reorganizations (merger, division, transformation)
- EU Company Law Amendment Act 1996
- The new division law
- Merger without resolution of a general meeting
- EU restructuring law
- Merger of partnerships
- Civil law issues relating to the transfer of companies and businesses
Company purchase, M&A
- Legal issues relating to company acquisitions and investments
- Transfer of companies and shares
- Interpretation and scope of balance sheet guarantees
- M&A: Interpretation of purchase price adjustment and earn-out and improvement clauses
- Business purchase checklist
- Liability of the buyer of an investment
Inheritance law, compulsory share law
- Inheritance law — bequeathing correctly, avoiding mistakes (2nd edition)
- Asset succession planning
- Transfer of companies and shares from a civil and corporate law perspective (in the book “Unternehmensnachfolge” published by Bank Austria)
Shareholder dispute
- Exclusion of GmbH shareholders for important reasons following the GESBR reform
- Quorum of the GmbH General Assembly, exclusion of voting rights and head of the general meeting
- GmbH General Assembly: Tape recording, record keeping, right to correction of the general meeting minutes Legal opinion
- Book inspection and special audit at the GmbH
- Duty of loyalty and the comprehensive right to information in the GmbH
- Rechtsgutachten
Family business
- Succession planning and decision-making in a family capital company
- Dismissal of husband as GmbH managing director (decision meeting)
Buying and selling real estate
- Contract practice when buying an interest house
- Disclaimer for real estate purchase contracts
- Unclear contract clauses in real estate purchase contracts
Private foundation
- 30 years of private foundation
- Glossary: Private Foundation
- Empirical study of foundation certificates of Austrian private foundations
- Improving the rights of founders and beneficiaries of a private foundation
- Dismissal of the Board of Trustees following the amendment to the PSG
- Compulsory share law and private foundation
- Inheritance law — bequeathing correctly, avoiding mistakes (2nd edition)
- Private foundation — Alles vain bliss?
Tenancy law
- Rent increase for main commercial space rent
- Commercial space rental, corporate lease and inventory in shopping centers
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