Harald Strahberger is a Partner in our Vienna office.

Harald regularly advises national and international clients in all fields of public law, including environmental law (e.g., facility, waste and water laws), energy law, trade law, data protection and state aid law, also representing them in administrative proceedings as well as in proceedings in front of Administrative Courts, the Supreme Administrative Court, the Austrian Constitutional Court and in front of the Austrian Civil Courts.

Harald Strahberger is particularly well-versed in representing clients before the Austrian supreme administrative court and the constitutional court.

Legal 500, 2024

RECENT ENGAGEMENTS INCLUDE ADVISING*

ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND GOVERNANCE (ESG)

• AGROFERT on a broad range of environmental and other regulatory matters in the course of its purchase of the Borealis fertilizer business in Austria
• WIGEV on the necessity of an environmental impact assessment for the modernisation of several Viennese hospitals and representation in the environmental impact assessment proceedings

ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES

• BE ENERGY in a highly political dispute with a grid operator before the Austrian Energy Regulator (E-Control) and the Austrian civil courts (including the Austrian Supreme Court) regarding the prescription of grid access fees for the operation of PV systems
• BURGENLAND NETZ on the possibility of reducing system charges for consumers by spreading the investment costs over several years in the proceedings of the Energy Regulator (E-Control) on the determination of system charges
• INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRM on an in‑storage gas transaction

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION

• STEINER IMMOBILIEN GRUPPE, a property developer, in proceedings regarding the official cessation of the demolition of two houses built before 1945, in accordance with the provisions of the Viennese Building Act (Wiener Bauordnung) as amended 2018

TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• CELLNEX on the telecommunications regulations as part of its purchase of the telecommunications towers/antenna masts from H3A in Austria and their sale two years later
• INTERNATIONAL ONLINE GAMBLING PROVIDERS on the Austrian gambling monopoly and their representation in lawsuits filed by Austrian players before the Austrian civil courts

LIFE SCIENCES & HEALTHCARE

• LIFEBRAIN on the set-up and operation of Austria's largest Covid-19 laboratory as well as in proceedings against the Vienna Medical Association to safeguard LIFEBRAIN's permit under Viennese Hospital Act (Wiener Krankenanstaltengesetz)

COMPETITION & STATE AID 

• AUSTRIAN OPERATOR OF MOTORWAY SERVICE STATIONS regarding the claim of the pay out of applied COVID-19 subsidies by COFAG / Federal State of Austria, including the representation in the pending court proceedings

*Experience prior to joining Kinstellar.

EDUCATION

• 2009: University of Vienna, Mag. iur.
• 2009 - ongoing: University of Vienna, Doctoral studies in law

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Vienna Bar Association 

LANGUAGES

German, English