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About Anna Kohlmaier

Anna Kohlmaier represents global businesses in large-scale disputes with a focus on commercial, corporate and antitrust litigation in a multijurisdictional context. Anna has extensive experience in handling high-profile mass claims, including advice on cross border strategy.

Anna’s practice covers versatile complex disputes and mass claims with related advice on strategic, commercial and legal tech aspects. Her clients include businesses from a variety of different business sectors including industrial, tech and financial clients. 

Recent work

  • Representing a tech client on various aspects related to its mass claim defence against GDPR claims
  • Representing a global financial institution in its defence against shareholder activism and corporate litigation
  • Representing Volkswagen in its defence against customer claims arising from the global recall of VW diesel vehicles in relation to the emission of nitrous oxides
  • Representing global industrial clients in its defence against follow-on damages claims arising from antitrust cartel decisions
  • Representing clients in commercial disputes in connection with arbitration proceedings

Qualifications

  • University of Vienna, Austria (Mag iur)
  • Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), France
  • University of Leiden (Grotius Centre of International Legal Studies), Netherlands
  • Participation in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition

Publications

  • ÖBl 2024/28 Follow-on antitrust damages litigation: Comment on the decision of the Supreme Court as KOG 2.5.2023, 16 Ok 1/23t, in Österreichische Blätter für Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (ÖBl 2024/28), together with Dr. Maria Dreher-Lorjé, regarding the legal (in)admissibility of access to the file of the antitrust proceedings for the purpose of pursuing claims for damages

  • GesRZ 2022, 201 [203] Shareholder squeeze-out proceedings: “Verbriefte Nachbesserungsrechte im Barabfindungsverfahren, GesRZ 2022, 201 [203]”, together with Dr. Thomas Zottl, regarding the question of whether top-up rights of former shareholders following a squeeze-out may include claims for damages