Birgit Kraml
Partner
Birgit Kraml
Partner
About Birgit
Birgit Kraml regularly advises major companies on significant real estate projects in Austria and CEE, and is known for her outstanding expertise in project developments, real estate acquisitions and sales, contentious real estate law, as well as in the areas of tenancy law and plant and environmental law. Birgit regularly represents clients before national civil and administrative courts and authorities. She also coordinates the firm’s ESG real estate activities. She already specialised in planning and environmental law during her PhD at the University of Vienna and holds an LL.M. degree from the London School of Economics. Birgit Kraml held lectures on environmental and spatial planning law at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology. She was appointed Trade Advisor of the French Republic (Conseiller du Commerce extérieur de la France) by the French Prime Minister and is the Chairwoman of the Urban Land Institute (‘ULI’) Austria. Birgit held lectures on environmental law (master program) at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Vienna and at the Vienna University of Technology.
Expertise
Real Estate Regulatory & Administrative Law Litigation Environmental Law & Permits Real Estate Law Retail & Consumer GoodsEducation
London School of Economics and Political Science (LL.M.), 2001
University of Vienna (Dr. iur.), 2001
Université René Descartes, 1997
Languages
German, English, French
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