Alexander Swancar

Expertise Alexander Advises Experience Highlights Career History

Partner, Head of Branch Office Austria

Dispute Resolution, Real Estate (Blockchain) and ESG

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Expertise

In recent years, Alexander has worked intensively within the real estate industry and (Web3) real estate investment banking. His focus is on real estate finance and the implementation of complex structures for the ownership, development and financing of real estate.

Together with the global market-leading gunnercooke team for Blockchain, Cryptoassets, Smart Contracts and DeFi, he supports his clients in particular in the implementation of Web3-based real estate financing, management and transactions.

Currently, the challenge of ESG-compliant real estate financing and the connection of blockchain with green building is also the focus of his work.

With his expertise, he also supports gunnercooke’s multidisciplinary ESG practice group as a partner.

He is not only an experienced lawyer, but also a real estate investor and real estate multi-entrepreneur himself. He likes to participate as a strategic investor in innovative PropTech and RE Tech startups.

As a real estate investor, he uses a new iteration of age-old ideas: transparency, service and positive impact. With a focus on projects that inspire and support the community – he wants to set a new standard. Also when advising his clients, with whom he acts as a sparring partner.

Alexander is convinced that profound advice and representation in real estate issues, even in the age of Web3 and blockchain, is only possible with the appropriate structural background knowledge. That’s why he has gone back into education and is currently completing his architecture and civil engineering studies.

He is (also) known in the media as a criminal defense lawyer in high-profile proceedings and is still extremely active in this area. The focus of his work as a litigator and defense attorney is primarily in the ESG practice group; if, for example, investigative authorities raise accusations of greenwashing or high-profile proceedings that have to do with ESG or sustainability. In this often emotional area of debate, Alexander’s experience in dealing with the media – both in front of and behind the camera – comes in handy.

Alexander Advises

Real estate investors
Real estate funds
Real estate financiers and banks
Lenders and borrowers
Property developer
Real estate owners
Builders
Construction companies
Construction joint ventures
Architects
Planners

Experience Highlights

Conception and implementation of large-volume real estate investments with complex and international financing structures
Advice and representation of real estate companies in insolvency proceedings with simultaneous restructuring of the financing of their real estate portfolios
Advising a British financial company specialising in loan financing for real estate investments on its commitment in Austria
Advice and representation of a client in the implementation of a complex building on the Wiener Prater
Advising an international rescue organization on its ESG commitment and implementation of the sustainability strategies developed

Career History

Previous Law firms

2014 until 2022 swancar.legal
2013 until 2014 vjv-Rechtsanwälte Partnerschaft
2010 until 2013 Balms Group International – Neumayer, Walter & Haslinger Rechtsanwälte-Partnerschaft
2008 until 2010 Associate bei Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte GmbH

Memberships

Tyrolean Bar Association

Education

University of Vienna
University of Innsbruck (currently studying architecture and civil engineering)

Alexander Swancar is a partner in the Austrian Branch of gunnercooke Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, whose registered office is Kurfurstendamm 15, 10719 Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 224488 B. All lawyers of gunnercooke Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH are admitted in Germany or Austria to practise as Rechtsanwalt or Rechsanwaltin and are members of and regulated by the relevant local Bar (Rechtsanwaltskammer).