Contact:

+43 1 532 12 10 / b.girsch@bkp.at

Year of Birth:

1970

Areas of Specialisation:

EU and national cartel law, commercial and distribution law, civil procedure and arbitration before national and European courts, tenancy and real estate law

Languages:

German, English and Swedish

Education and Professional Experience:

1994 Mag. jur., University of Vienna; 1994 exchange programme University of Göttingen (Erasmus scholarship); 1995 internship with various judges, barristers and solicitors in England; 1995 through 1996 post graduate programme on European law at the University of Lund (Master of European Law); 1997 internship at the Austrian Cartel Court; 1997 competition - Merger Task Force); 2001 Dr. jur., University of Vienna; 2002 admitted to the Vienna Bar; 1998 associate and as of 2002 attorney-at-law at BKP

Lecturing Activities:

EU and Austrian cartel law; international distribution agreements (International Chamber of Commerce/ICC); liability of managers, general commercial law and law of contracts

Publications:

• Änderung beim Unternehmensübergang, BKP-Legal News May/June 2007
• Exekution der Stiftungsvermögen, BKP-Legal News November/December 2006
• Internationale Streitanhängigkeit im grenzüberschreitenden Straßengüterverkehr, ecolex 2006, 622
• International Transactions and Merger Control under Austrian Jurisdiction, in: International Business Transactions and Standard Forms, Kluwer Law International 2006
• Unternehmensgesetzbuch NEU, BKP-Legal News July/August 2006
• Grundzüge des neuen (strengeren) Kartellgesetzes, BKP-Legal News January/February 2005
• Different Regimes for Cartels and Vertical Distribution Agreements further delineated in: European Update 2004, 5
• Neuerungen bei Technologielizenzen, BKP-Legal News May/June 2004
• Kartellrecht als Schranke von Unternehmensstrategien, Änderungen in der Europäischen Fusionskontrolle, BKP-Legal News March/April 2004
• Mergers in Oligopolistic Markets - Proposal for guidelines for the assessment of effects on competition of transactions on highly concentrated markets, European Update 2002, 15
• Fusionskontrolle in konzentrierten Märkten, Das theoretische Konzept der oligopolistischen Marktbeherrschung und dessen Anwendung in der Praxis, Verlag NWV 2002
• Oligopolistisches Parallelverhalten von Fähren- und Eurotunnel-Unternehmen, ELR 2000, 30
• Schwere Zeiten für Große Unternehmen, ecolex 2000, 367 (co-author)
• Kartellgesetznovelle 1999 als Regierungsvorlage, ecolex 1999, 410 (co-author)
• Klassische juristische Berufe und Gerichtssystem in Großbritannien, AnwBl 1998, 550
• From Notification to Approval - Austrian Competition Law, From Notification to Approval, European Counsel 1997 (co-author)