• About us
  • People
  • Expertise
    • Sectors
        • Technology, media & communications Technology, media & communications
        • Private Wealth Private wealth
        • Real estate, infrastructure & energy
        • Life sciences & healthcare icon Life sciences & healthcare
        • Aerospace & defence
        • Automotive & mobility
        • Business & professional services
        • Chemicals
        • Consumer & retail
        • Financial institutions & insurance
        • Hotels, hospitality & leisure
        • Logistics & transport
        • Manufacturing & industrials
        • Public services & education
    • Legal services
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Banking & finance
        • Brands & advertising
        • Commercial & consumer contracts
        • Competition, EU & trade
        • Copyright & media law
        • Corporate crime & compliance
        • Corporate/M&A & capital markets
        • Data & cyber
        • Disputes & investigations
        • Employment, pensions & mobility
        • Environmental, planning & regulatory
        • Environmental, social & governance (ESG)
        • Intellectual property
        • Information technology
        • Patents & innovation
        • Private client
        • Private equity
        • Projects, energy & infrastructure
        • Real estate & construction
        • Regulation
        • Restructuring & insolvency
        • Tax
        • Venture capital
  • Locations
    • Europe
        • Locations
        • Austria
        • Belgium
        • Czech Republic
        • France
        • Germany
        • Hungary
        • Italy
        • Netherlands
        • Poland
        • Portugal
        • Ireland
        • Slovakia
        • Spain
        • United Kingdom
        • Ukraine
          Groups & regions
        • CEE Turkish Desk
        • French German group
        • Our offices
    • Middle East & Africa
        • Locations
        • Middle East
        • UAE
          Groups
        • Africa group
        • Israel group
        • Our offices
    • Americas
        • Locations
        • Latin America
        • USA
          Groups
        • Brazil group
        • Our offices
    • Asia
        • Locations
        • Asia
        • China
        • South Korea
          Groups
        • India group
        • Japan group
        • Our offices
  • Insights
    • Insights
        • Featured Topics
        • Artificial intelligence
        • Data Centre Expertise
        • The EU Whistleblower Directive
        • German Supply Chain Act
        • Unified Patent Court
          Content hub
        • Global Data Hub
        • Interface: tech, IP and media law
        • Podcasts
        • Synapse
        • Browse all insights
    • In focus
        • AI
        • Dealonomics
        • Disputes
        • Intellectual property
        • MENA
        • Regulation
        • Browse in focus
    • Events
        • In person
        • Online
        • Browse all events
    • News
        • Media centre
        • Work highlights
        • Firm news
        • Browse all news
  • Careers
  • EN
    • English
    • 中文(简体)
    • Français
    • Deutsch
  • Home
  • People
  • Raimund Cancola
Raimund Cancola
Raimund Cancola

Raimund Cancola

Partner

  • Vienna Austria
Contact Me Today
+43 1 71 65 50
vCard
Email me Call me
Featured award

IFLR 1000 2020

Highly regarded: M&A (Austria)

Scroll to featured award

Raimund is a member of our Global Board, CEE Managing Partner and a leading member of the Corporate/M&A team in CEE. Besides being admitted in Austria, he is also qualified to practice law in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland. He is also a dedicated member of our China, Middle East and US groups.

Raimund is a corporate lawyer well known for his experience in cross border M&A and private equity transactions. From his decades of experience working on corporate transactions across numerous industries, Raimund can offer authoritative insights and a calm, competent presence on any deal.

Outside of law, Raimund has made a name for himself as a capable and popular university lecturer at the Institute for Corporate and Tax Law at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Having led the course Business Succession and M&A as part of the bachelor's degree studies for several years, he is now also commissioned to hold this course as part of the master's degree studies.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Private equity
Venture capital
Corporate/M&A & capital markets
Projects, energy & infrastructure
Equity capital markets
General corporate
Joint ventures
M&A
India group
Israel group

Sectors

Technology, media & communications
Consumer & retail
Hotels, hospitality & leisure
Manufacturing & industrials

Dealonomics

Developed in collaboration with Bayes Business School, our Dealonomics report explores the trends shaping cross-border M&A and what they reveal about the future of dealmaking.

Access the report

The Corporate Collection

The Corporate Collection

Explore our extensive experience helping clients navigate cross-border M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions and read how we've delivered deals that made a difference. 

Find out more

CV

Since 2009 Permanent Lecturer, Institute of Company and Tax Law, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Since 1994 Partner, Taylor Wessing e|n|w|c
1992 – 1993 Secondment, Arthur Loke & Partners, Singapore
1987 – 1992 Associate, Eiselsberg & Natlacen
1986 – 1987 Judicial clerkship, Higher Regional Court of Vienna
2013 Admitted to the Bar, Hungary
2012 Admitted to the Bar, Poland
2004 Admitted to the Bar, Slovakia
1997 Admitted to the Bar, Czech Republic
1993 Admitted to the Bar, Austria
1986 Doctoral degree, University of Graz, Austria
1980 – 1986 Legal studies & accompanying studies in business administration, University of Graz, Austria

Career

Since 2009 Permanent Lecturer, Institute of Company and Tax Law, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Since 1994 Partner, Taylor Wessing e|n|w|c
1992 – 1993 Secondment, Arthur Loke & Partners, Singapore
1987 – 1992 Associate, Eiselsberg & Natlacen
1986 – 1987 Judicial clerkship, Higher Regional Court of Vienna

Education

2013 Admitted to the Bar, Hungary
2012 Admitted to the Bar, Poland
2004 Admitted to the Bar, Slovakia
1997 Admitted to the Bar, Czech Republic
1993 Admitted to the Bar, Austria
1986 Doctoral degree, University of Graz, Austria
1980 – 1986 Legal studies & accompanying studies in business administration, University of Graz, Austria

Publications

Author of several articles published in trade magazines and economic media titles

Memberships & Associations

Vienna Bar Association

Czech Bar Association

Slovak Bar Association

Polish Bar Association 

Additional languages

English

Awards

IFLR 1000 2020

Featured

Highly regarded: M&A (Austria)

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa 2019

Recommended lawyer: Commercial, corporate & M&A (Austria)

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa 2016

Recommended lawyer: Commercial, corporate & M&A (Austria)

Raimund's news & insights

View Raimund's insights
Click here to find out more
Italy

Announcing our strategic alliance with Orsingher Ortu - Avvocati Associati

18 March 2025

by multiple authors

Glass.Mapper.Sc.Fields.Image?.Alt
Austria

Taylor Wessing is Law Firm of the Year Austria

28 October 2024

by Raimund Cancola

Click here to find out more
Glass.Mapper.Sc.Fields.Image?.Alt
Environmental, planning & regulatory

Taylor Wessing Vienna brings public law expert Sabine Meister on board

14 May 2024

by Sabine Meister and Raimund Cancola

Click here to find out more
View Raimund's insights

Related news & insights

Up Arrow
Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Advising Toho Global on its acquisition of Anime Limited

27 January 2026

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Escalator
Consumer & retail

Consumer and Retail in the News

23 January 2026
Quick read

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Low Angle View Of Flags Waving
Logistics & transport

EU Inc.: Founders and companies with expansion plans must now think strategically

23 January 2026
Quick read

by Dr. Benedikt Groh and Fritz Krings

Click here to find out more
Technology, media & communications

UK Online Safety Act fees regime kicks off – initial notifications due by 11 April 2026

22 January 2026
Quick read

by Debbie Heywood

Click here to find out more
European union
Brands & advertising

New ECJ ruling should help brand owners tackle infringing and counterfeit goods

22 January 2026
In-depth analysis

by Sebastian Fischoeder, LL.M. (Trinity College Dublin) and Louise Popple

Click here to find out more
Working Data Centre
Technology, media & communications

Ofcom's guidance on online safety for women and girls and UK government strategy

22 January 2026
Briefing

by Debbie Heywood

Click here to find out more
Flag of the European community
Brands & advertising

Store-front use isn't a free pass: EU General Court narrows genuine use for single-brand stores in K-Way v EUIPO

22 January 2026
In-depth analysis

by Louise Popple and Julia Marke

Click here to find out more
Office facade reflection
Life sciences & healthcare

Advising Nuclera on its extended Series C funding to US$87 million

22 January 2026

by Ross McNaughton and Oli Denne

Click here to find out more
Letterpress blocks background
Brands & advertising

Descriptive words aren't necessarily free for all to use: SWIPE not understood by average Italian Consumers, finds EU General Court

22 January 2026
Briefing

by multiple authors

Click here to find out more
Standing on painted Venn Diagrams
Brands & advertising

When laudatory marks are given broad protection: Sexy Fish

22 January 2026
In-depth analysis

by Christian Durr and Louise Popple

Click here to find out more
View all insights

Related people

Austria
Global
Claudia Steegmüller

Claudia Steegmüller

Partner

Vienna
+43 1 71 65 50
Email me
View profile
Philip Hoflehner

Philip Hoflehner, MIM (CEMS)

Partner

Vienna
+43 1 71 65 50
Email me
View profile
Markéta Deimelová

Markéta Deimelová

Partner

Prague
Brno
+420 224 81 92 16
Email me
View profile
Full team
hendrik jan schimmel

Hendrik Jan Schimmel

Partner

Amsterdam
+31 88 024 3216
Email me
View profile

Timo Stellpflug

Partner

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
Martin Dowdall

Martin Dowdall

Partner

London
+44 20 3077 7422
Email me
View profile
Mohammed Tartir

Mohammed Tartir

Senior Counsel

Dubai
+971 43 09 1017
Email me
View profile
Bella Clark-Thornton

Bella Thornton-Clark

Senior Associate

London
San Francisco
+44 20 7300 7000
Email me
View profile

Dr. Niels L. Lange, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)

Senior Associate

Hamburg
+49 40 36803 0
Email me
View profile
Ernst-Albrecht von Beauvais

Dr. Ernst-Albrecht von Beauvais, LL.M. (Berkeley)

Partner

Duesseldorf
+49 211 8387 0
Email me
View profile
Samy Elsheikh

Samy Elsheikh

Senior Associate

Dubai
+971 43 09 1013
Email me
View profile
Stijn Rijpma

Stijn Rijpma

Partner

Eindhoven
+31 88 02 43 052
Email me
View profile
anne-juliet-de-zaluski

Anne-Juliette De Zaluski

Partner

Paris
+33 1 72 74 03 33
Email me
View profile
Full team

Meet me at

There are no upcoming events

See all events
Subscribe to our latest insights
  • About us
  • Campaigns and online tools
  • News
  • People
  • Expertise
  • Locations
  • Insights
  • Events
  • Media centre
  • Contact
  • Careers
  • Alumni
  • Data protection & privacy policy
  • Cookie policy
  • Legal and regulatory information
  • Regulatory information on costs
  • Complaints procedure for clients
  • Terms of use
  • Anti-slavery statement
  • Environmental
  • Scam emails

© Taylor Wessing