Stefan Artner

Partner

Stefan Artner
Stefan Artner

Stefan Artner is a partner at DORDA and heads the firm's real estate and construction law team. He is also a member of the Legal Tech Group. His main areas of expertise are real estate M&A, tenancy and residential law, contract law, property development projects and support for start-ups. In 2016, he received the Cäsar® real estate award for the best real estate service in Austria.

Stefan Artner is the initiator, founder and board member of Legal Tech Hub Europe, an association of leading law firms focusing on the digitalisation of the legal profession.

Stefan Artner is the editor and author of several specialist publications, such as the Praxishandbuch Immobilienrecht (Practical Handbook on Real Estate Law, 4th edition, 2022), which has become a standard work for the real estate industry in Austria, and the Handbuch Nachhaltigkeitsrecht (Handbook on Sustainability Law, 2021). Stefan Artner is also heavily involved in the Austrian start-up community and co-edited the Handbook on Start-up Investing (2nd edition, 2023). He regularly lectures at the University of Vienna and Danube University Krems as a lecturer and in specialist seminars on real estate law and due diligence.


Education:

University of Vienna, Mag iur
Vienna University of Economics & Business, Mag rer soc oec
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, MRICS
European Business School, Real Estate Expert/International Real Estate Valuation

#Blockchain in der Rechtspraxis, 2. Auflage, 2024
Immobilienbewertung Österreich, 4. Auflage, 2022
Praxishandbuch Nachhaltige Finanzierung, 2023

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Cäsar, Bester Immobiliendienstleister - 2016
Chambers Europe, Real Estate, Band 1 - 2025
Chambers Europe, Real Estate, Band 1 - 2024
Chambers Europe, Real Estate, Band 1 - 2023
Chambers Europe, Real Estate, Band 1 - 2022
IFLR1000, M&A, Notable Practitioner - 2022
JUVE, Immobilien- und Baurecht, Führende Namen - 2025
JUVE, Immobilienwirtschaftsrecht, Führende Namen - 2024
JUVE, Immobilienwirtschaftsrecht, Führende Namen - 2023
JUVE, Immobilien- und Baurecht, Führende Namen - 2021
Legal 500, Real Estate, Hall of Fame - 2025
Legal 500, Real Estate, Hall of Fame - 2024
Legal 500, Real Estate, Hall of Fame - 2023
Legal 500, Construction, Recommended - 2023

  • Initiator, founder and board member of Legal Tech Hub Europe

  • Start-up investor (pre-seed and seed phase) and managing director of AUBMES Invest GmbH

  • Editor and co-author of the practical handbook on real estate law (4th edition, Linde 2023)

  • Editor and co-author of Startup Investing (2nd edition, Linde 2023)

  • Author of various specialist publications on real estate law (Handbuch Nachhaltigkeitsrecht [Handbook on Sustainability Law], Manz 2021; Immobilienbewertung Österreich [Real Estate Valuation in Austria], ÖVI 2022, and many more)

  • Lecturer at the University of Vienna and Danube University Krems

German (mother tongue)
English (fluent)

 

He has enormous legal expertise. He is fast, effective, proactive and solution-oriented with strong negotiation skills.