November 1, 2025

Birgit Kraml Becomes Head of Real Estate in Austria DLA Piper Law Firm in Vienna

The Vienna office of the DLA Piper law firm has announced that Birgit Kraml will join the firm as partner and Head of Real Estate in Austria on October 1, 2024.

According to DLA Piper, “Birgit brings with her decades of experience in real-estate law, having previously been a Real Estate partner at Wolf Theiss in Vienna, where she began her legal career in 2001. She regularly advises international corporations on major real estate projects in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe with her expertise spanning project development, transactions, tenancy law, litigation, as well as environmental and sustainability law. Highly connected and familiar with the real-estate sector, Birgit has been serving as the Chair of the Urban Land Institute in Austria since July 2023. Additionally, she was appointed a Trade Advisor to the French Republic by the French Prime Minister and has also lectured on environmental and planning law at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, and the Vienna University of Technology.”

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