Sonja Karpf

Expertise Sonja Advises Experience Highlights Career History

Partner, Austria

Dispute Resolution & Negotiation, Contract Law & Strategic Advisory, Public & Trade Law, Terms & Conditions

+43 120 510 730 77

Expertise

Sonja Karpf is an experienced lawyer specialising in Contract Law and Terms & Conditions, Dispute Resolution and Negotiation, Trade Law and Administrative Criminal Law and Corporate Law (with a focus on limited liability companies). Over the course of her career, she has developed additional expertise in Compliance and Whistleblower Protection.

She takes a holistic approach to everything she does. She is a strong, solution-oriented, open-minded, empathetic person, who works very calmly and solution-oriented in particularly challenging times. She can quickly grasp and break down complex legal matters and think in a highly interconnected way.

Sonja Karpf is also a certified mediator, lecturer, entrepreneur, and published author.

Interpersonal connection holds great significance for Sonja in her professional work. One of her passions is to understand people´s patterns and needs and to take them into account when providing legal advice. She has completed various training programs in this area.

Sonja Advises

  • Partnerships
  • Corporations (particularly Limited Liability Companies)
  • Corporate Groups
  • Medium-Sized Enterprises
  • Private Clients

Experience Highlights

  • Contract drafting and negotiation of a large-scale cooperation in the field of renewable energy between European companies
  • Advising an international corporation on trade law issues related to private room rentals in Austria
  • Providing legal support and contract drafting to a global network in the impact tech sector
  • Litigation representation of an international corporation in the field of traffic management, involving a cross-border matter, to enforce a high-value claim
  • Ongoing strategic legal advisory for a corporate group in the field of cross-border security policy regarding business development and international expansion

Career History

Previous Law firms

  • 2021-2024: Lawyer SKA Legal, Vienna
  • 2019-2021: Associate Weber&Co, Vienna
  • 2017-2018: Associate DORDA, Vienna
  • 2016-2017: Legal Counsel Kapsch AG

Memberships

  • Member of the Vienna Bar Association (since 2021)

Education

  • Vienna University of Economics and Business (LL.B.)
  • Vienna University of Economics and Business (LL.M.)
  • Certified Mediator
  • Life and Social Coach
  • Certified Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Publications

  • Burnout – Wenn alles in Asche liegt: Ein Überblick über Genese, Haftung und Prävention aus rechtlicher und arbeitsmedizinischer Perspektive (RA Sonja Karpf, LL.M./Dr. Simon Geisler), ARD 6841/4/2023.
  • HSchG HinweisgeberInnenschutzgesetz Kurzkommentar (Kudrna/Karpf/Kitzberger/Schönborn)
  • Forgotten superheroines: Covid-19 and the effects on the social and working environment of women in Austria (Karpf/Kitzberger), published on website of the International Bar Association

 

 

 

Sonja is a partner in gunnercooke GmbH, whose registered office is Kurfuerstendamm 15, 10719 Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 224488 B. All lawyers of gunnercooke GmbH are admitted either in Germany or Austria to practise as Rechtsanwalt or Rechtsanwaeltin and are members of and regulated by the relevant local Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).

Expertise

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Sonja Karpf is an experienced lawyer specialising in Contract Law and Terms & Conditions, Dispute Resolution and Negotiation, Trade Law and Administrative Criminal Law and Corporate Law (with a focus on limited liability companies). Over the course of her career, she has developed additional expertise in Compliance and Whistleblower Protection.

She takes a holistic approach to everything she does. She is a strong, solution-oriented, open-minded, empathetic person, who works very calmly and solution-oriented in particularly challenging times. She can quickly grasp and break down complex legal matters and think in a highly interconnected way.

Sonja Karpf is also a certified mediator, lecturer, entrepreneur, and published author.

Interpersonal connection holds great significance for Sonja in her professional work. One of her passions is to understand people´s patterns and needs and to take them into account when providing legal advice. She has completed various training programs in this area.

Sonja Advises

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  • Partnerships
  • Corporations (particularly Limited Liability Companies)
  • Corporate Groups
  • Medium-Sized Enterprises
  • Private Clients

Experience Highlights

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  • Contract drafting and negotiation of a large-scale cooperation in the field of renewable energy between European companies
  • Advising an international corporation on trade law issues related to private room rentals in Austria
  • Providing legal support and contract drafting to a global network in the impact tech sector
  • Litigation representation of an international corporation in the field of traffic management, involving a cross-border matter, to enforce a high-value claim
  • Ongoing strategic legal advisory for a corporate group in the field of cross-border security policy regarding business development and international expansion

Career History

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Previous Law firms

  • 2021-2024: Lawyer SKA Legal, Vienna
  • 2019-2021: Associate Weber&Co, Vienna
  • 2017-2018: Associate DORDA, Vienna
  • 2016-2017: Legal Counsel Kapsch AG

Memberships

  • Member of the Vienna Bar Association (since 2021)

Education

  • Vienna University of Economics and Business (LL.B.)
  • Vienna University of Economics and Business (LL.M.)
  • Certified Mediator
  • Life and Social Coach
  • Certified Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Publications

  • Burnout – Wenn alles in Asche liegt: Ein Überblick über Genese, Haftung und Prävention aus rechtlicher und arbeitsmedizinischer Perspektive (RA Sonja Karpf, LL.M./Dr. Simon Geisler), ARD 6841/4/2023.
  • HSchG HinweisgeberInnenschutzgesetz Kurzkommentar (Kudrna/Karpf/Kitzberger/Schönborn)
  • Forgotten superheroines: Covid-19 and the effects on the social and working environment of women in Austria (Karpf/Kitzberger), published on website of the International Bar Association

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Sonja is a partner in gunnercooke GmbH, whose registered office is Kurfuerstendamm 15, 10719 Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 224488 B. All lawyers of gunnercooke GmbH are admitted either in Germany or Austria to practise as Rechtsanwalt or Rechtsanwaeltin and are members of and regulated by the relevant local Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).