Sonja Karpf

Expertise Sonja Advises Experience Highlights Career History

Partner, Austria

Corporate, Contract Law, Compliance, Whistleblower Protection

+43 120 510 730 77

Expertise

Sonja Karpf is an experienced lawyer specialising in corporate and contract law. Over the course of her career, she has also developed a strong focus on compliance and whistleblower protection.

She approaches her work with a holistic mindset. Sonja is a strong, solution-oriented and open-minded professional with a high degree of empathy. She remains calm and focused, even in particularly challenging situations. She is quick to grasp and analyse complex legal issues and has a highly interconnected way of thinking.

In addition to being a skilled lawyer, Sonja is also a certified mediator, entrepreneur, speaker and author.

Human connection plays an important role in her professional life. One of her passions is understanding people—their patterns and their needs—and reflecting this in her legal advice. She has completed a range of additional training programmes to support this approach.

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 corporate and contract law. Over the course of her career, she has also developed a strong focus on compliance and whistleblower protection.

She approaches her work with a holistic mindset. Sonja is a strong, solution-oriented and open-minded professional with a high degree of empathy. She remains calm and focused, even in particularly challenging situations. She is quick to grasp and analyse complex legal issues and has a highly interconnected way of thinking.

In addition to being a skilled lawyer, Sonja is also a certified mediator, entrepreneur, speaker and author.

Human connection plays an important role in her professional life. One of her passions is understanding people—their patterns and their needs—and reflecting this in her legal advice. She has completed a range of additional training programmes to support this approach.

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).