Markus P. Fellner

Markus P. Fellner focuses on the areas Dispute Resolution as well as antitrust law.

Markus P. Fellner represents domestic and foreign companies in civil litigation and arbitration proceedings in Austria and CEE. He offers an extensive know-how concerning the support and representation for complex large-scale projects, advising clients at the appraisal and implementation stage of the projects as well as actively enforcing claims in the context of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. Markus P. Fellner has already represented companies in the industry sectors construction and engineering, power plants, energy, infrastructure for data transfer, medical devices, transport systems and logistics and automotive parts.

As counsel in complex arbitration and Dispute Board proceedings and as arbitrator respectively Markus P. Fellner has conducted proceedings according to the Rules of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (VIAC), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the German Institution of Arbitration (DIS) and the UNCITRAL Rules as well as ad hoc proceedings.He is registered in the list of arbitrators of the Vienna International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (VIAC) as well as the Permanent Court of Arbitration of the Viennese Chamber of Commerce (“Ständiges Schiedsgericht der Wirtschaftskammer Wien”).

In antitrust proceedings Markus P. Fellner represents companies in proceedings before Austrian and European competition authorities, such as the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The antitrust practice encompasses merger filings and consultations in relation to cartels and abuse of a dominant position. Compliance trainings constitute another focus of Markus P. Fellner.
Furthermore, he possesses extensive expertise in setting up distribution structures, such as international franchise systems and Joint Ventures.

Markus P. Fellner is a member of …

• the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR,
• the ICC Comp etition Commission,
• the Task Force Competition's Cartels & Leniency,
• the Task Force Court Proceedings in Antitrust Damages Claims,
• the Task Force The Accuracy of Fact Witness Memory in International Arbitration: Current Issues and Possible Solutions,
• the Domestic Advisory Board of VIAC,
• the VIAC Task Force on Construction Arbitration,
• the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF),
• the Austrian Arbitration Ass ociation (ArbAut) and
• Austro British Chamber.

Markus P. Fellner is author of the following publications on antitrust, arbitration and foreign trade law:

•  „The Accuracy of Fact Witness Memory in International Arbitration”, in Reidlinger/Fischer/Burtscher, Aktuelle Praxisthemen im Unternehmensrecht und im Schiedsverfahren, GesRZ-Spezial 2022, 16
• Das österreichische Außenwirtschaftsrecht, Fellner/Gappmayer/Trebuch /Royer (2026)
• Das österreichische Außenwirtschaftsrecht, Fellner/Gappmayer/Trebuch (2021)
• Das österreichische Außenwirtschaftsrecht, Fellner/Gappmayer/Trebuch (2019)
• Schiedsvergleiche sind gebührenpflichtig, Fellner/Hayek, ZRB 2013, 153
• Das österreichische Außenwirtschaftsrecht, Fellner/Gappmayer, (2012)
• Missbraucht Österreich ein Monopol?, Die Presse 6.6.2011, 16
• Glosse zu OGH 24.2.2010, 3 Ob 25/10p, Erfordernis der Vollstreckbarkeitsbestätigung inländischer Schiedssprüche,), ecolex 2010 /274 , 767-768
• Is Austria fit for Adjudication?, Klausegger/Klein/Kremslehner/Petsche/Pitkowitz/Power/Welser/Zeiler, in Klausegger, Austrian Arbitration Yearbook (2010) 237
• „Mitternachtsklauseln“ – Wann sind Schiedsvereinbarungen sinnvoll? Leadership, Wirtschaftsforum der Führungskräfte 2009/4
• Das neue Österreichische Schiedsrecht, Neuerungen durch das SchiedsRÄG 2006 im Überblick sowie durch das HRÄG im Besonderen, N & V, 2007, 10
• Neuer Leitfaden für Kronzeugen , Wirtschaftsblatt 22.2.2007, 23
• Vorbereitung auf Dawn Raids , Wirtschaftsblatt 4.1.2007, 19
• Kartellgesetz 2005 und Wettbewerbsgesetznovelle 2005, Teil 1, Fellner/Grunicke, RdW 2005/534
• Kartellgesetz 2005 und Wettbewerbsgesetznovelle 2005 Teil 2, Fellner/Grunicke, RdW 2005/606
• Fairness beim Hüten des Wettbewerbs, Die Presse 4.7.2005, 6
• Legal proceedings costs in Austria , in Legal proceedings costs in Europe (2004) 2
• Level Playing Field im EG -Wettbewerbsrecht , Anwalt aktuell, 2003/7, 10
• Neue „Bagatellbekanntmachung“ der europäischen Kommission, Fellner/Domes, RdW 2002/339
• Kronzeugen im Kampf gegen Kartelle können mit Straffreiheit rechnen, Fellner/Domes, Die Presse 25.2.2002, 6
• Parallelimporte, in Straberger, EU -Recht – Handbuch für die österreichische Rechtspraxis (2002)

• Representing a Czech subsidiary of a global industry group in arbitration proceedings concerning the construction of the largest shopping center in the city center of Prague.
• Representing the Polish and Kosovan subsidiary of a global industry group in arbitration proceedings in relation to supplies to a national energy utility and to claims related to an outage of a power plant.
• Representing a leading producer of transformers in an alternative dispute case involving claims resulting of an incident at a nuclear power plant against an US energy utility.
• Advising a global industry group in an alternative dispute resolution case concerning the construction and renovation of a medical institution and a land marke church in its claims against a joint-venture partner and the principal, a foreign state authority in the CEE.
• Advising a German insurance company in recourse proceedings before Czech Courts against an international producer of electrotechnical products.