Friedrich Jergitsch has been a partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer since 2003 and works in the Vienna office. He is a member of our finance practice group and specialises in banking and bank regulatory law, as well as insolvency and restructuring. Recently, he has advised Kommunalkredit Austria in its restructuring and re-capitalisation by the Austrian government. Further, he advised BayernLB in the disposal of its shares in Hypo Alpe Adria. On an ongoing basis, Friedrich is advising the major Austrian banks on covered bonds legislation and has authored the Austrian reform of that legislation in 2005, allowing issuers to issue covered bonds (including Pfandbriefe) with a AAA-rating.

Friedrich was born in 1963 in Vienna, Austria. He studied law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna and has been active in an international bank in the field of credit analysis for several years. He is the author of specialist articles on the cross-border safe custody of securities, foreign exchange law and insolvency law. Friedrich was admitted as a lawyer in 2002.

Friedrich joined the firm in 1998 and speaks German, English, French and Russian.