RIZZI Rechtsanwalts GmbH
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In cooperation with:
RA Dr. Helmut Platzgummer
RA Mag. Dr. Peter Sommerer
RA Mag. Caroline Klus
RA Mag. Oliver Japchen
This year’s ranking season is certainly one to look forward to! Our law firm has once again been recommended by the Legal 500 Ranking as a Leading Firm in the Private Clients category. We have succeeded in climbing into tier 3 and thus onto the podium. I would like to thank our clients, who place their trust in us year after year, and my team, especially Mag. Ringhofer and Mag. Frantsits!
Current lectures
Mag. Ringhofer and I are holding our first edition of the Journal for Inheritance Law and Succession (JEV) in our hands! Our edition 1/2025 focuses on foundation law and has the following headline: The private foundation needs friends!
RIZZI Rechtsanwalts GmbH advises A1
RIZZI Rechtsanwalts GmbH has successfully advised A1 on the acquisition of NTT Austria GmbH. We are pleased that we were able to support our client in this successful transaction.
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Current publications
- JEV April 2025, Heft 1/2025: Rizzi, Glosse zu OGH 15.10.2024, 2 Ob 66/24f
Private foundation and right to a compulsory portion – No victim of poverty in the event of an unrestricted right of amendment - JEV April 2025, Heft 1/2025: Ringhofer
Reduction in the valuation of gifts for the half share - JEV April 2025, Heft 1/2025: Ringhofer
No party status or right of legal recourse in the event of late declaration of inheritance - JEV Dezember 2024, Heft 4/2024: Ringhofer
Estate trustee despite agreement of the heirs in the inheritance dispute - JEV Dezember 2024, Heft 4/2024: Rizzi, Glosse zu OGH 20.03.2024, 6 Ob 3/24w
OGH: The impossibility of achieving the purpose of the foundation - ZFS 2024/43: Rizzi/Ringhofer
Overview of selected topics of the amendment to the WiEReG (ultimate beneficial owner register) with a focus on private foundations - ÖJZ 2023/152: FlexCo the new legal entity in Austria
- ecolex 2023/226: Foundation: Need for reform after 30 years
- ecolex 2023/481: Ineffectiveness of multi-page last wills – continued legal uncertainty due to lack of external and internal unity of the document
- Entscheidungsbesprechung zu OGH 16.9.2020, 6 Ob 141/20h = ecolex 2021/554
- Book contribution regarding: Obligation and liabilities of the supervisory board and other supervising bodies
in Harrer/Neumayr/Told, Organhaftung (Corporate officer’s liability) - OGH 5.3.2021, 2 Ob 158/21f = ecolex 2022/985
- OGH 16.9.2020, 6 Ob 141/20h = ecolex 2021/365, 554
- OGH 22.10.2020, 6 Ob 200/20k = ecolex 2021/239, 334
- ecolex 2020, 496: Rizzi, Ineffectiveness of multi-page last wills – Lack of external and internal unity of the document
- ecolex 2020/145, 312: Glosse zu OGH 30.10.2018, 2 Ob 13/18b
- ecolex 2020/107, 212: Glosse zu OGH 25.4.2019, 6 Ob 35/19v
- ecolex 2019/232, 523: Glosse zu OGH 20.3.2018, 2 Ob 98/17a
„compulsory portion and private foundations“ - 19.04.2018, Der Standard,
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