insurance
Schoenherr's insurance team provides legal advice on transactions, distribution structures, product design, and regulatory and tax matters in the insurance industry.
"The lawyers are very thoughtful and considerate, and provide solutions."
Schoenherr’s insurance practice group advises many of Austria's and Europe's leading insurers on transactions in the insurance sector, as well as on distribution structures, product design, and all related regulatory and tax matters for life, non-life, and reinsurance business. We provide detailed legal analysis of all applicable insurance laws and regulations, especially regarding life, D&O and property insurance. We also advise the Austrian Insurers' Association and provide assistance with Austrian insurance legislation.
our services
- anti-corruption (compliance programmes, guidelines, monitoring systems, etc)
- all aspects of life insurance (including product design)
- bancassurance
- distribution and cooperation agreements
- general terms and conditions
- warranty insurance in m&a transactions
- regulatory and compliance
- tax, including FATCA
- insurance m&a and insurance restructuring (including cross border mergers and outsourcing)
- insurance-related litigation
- portfolio transfers
legal areas
- administrative & public law
- arbitration
- capital markets
- commercial contracts
- eu & competition
- compliance & internal investigations
- corporate & reorganisations
- data protection
- insolvency & restructuring
- financial institutions and insurance
- ip & unfair commercial practices
- it & technology law
- labour & employment
- litigation
- m&a
- public procurement & ppp
- white collar crime & criminal defence
news
press release
Austria: Schoenherr advises UNIQA on EUR 500m subordinated notes issuance and simultaneous tender offer
Schoenherr advised UNIQA Insurance Group AG, one of the leading insurance groups in Austria and CEE, on the successful issuance of EUR 500m subordinated fixed-to-floating rate notes and a simultaneous tender offer for the repurchase of existing subordinated notes.
press release
Romania: Schoenherr advises VIG on IFC investment in Romanian private pension fund company
Schoenherr advised Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) on the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) investment as a minority shareholder in Carpathia Pensil - Societate de Administrare a Fondurilor de Pensii Private (Carpathia Pensii), a Romanian private pension fund management company within the VIG group.
publication
to the point: financial regulation | 4/2026
Welcome to our to the point newsletter. Every month, we look back at the most relevant developments in financial regulation in the CEE region.
class action info corner
The new class action rules are coming and will have quite an impact. In many CEE jurisdictions, the possibility to request compensation in a class action will be new and will materially change the litigation landscape. Our info corner gives you an overview of how CEE countries intend to implement the Directive.
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