Workshop 4 Creating Cities That Care: Applying Lessons from Vienna and Beyond to Inclusive and Safe Urban Design
DATE & TIME
LOCATION
🗓️ Wednesday, August 26 🕐 09:00-10:30
📍 Grand Klimt Hall 1–2
Organised By
Organised by the Real Estate, Environmental and Energy Law, Public Procurement Law Commissions and the AIJA Women Network
Description
Cities are evolving rapidly as they face the challenges of sustainability, social inclusion, climate change, and new mobility needs. This workshop brings together professionals from a wide range of disciplines to explore how legal frameworks and innovative planning can help shape better cities. It features a keynote speech by Claudia Brey, Chairwoman of ÖBB Immobilien GmbH, and connects theory with practice through an example of a landmark redevelopment project in Vienna.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Claudia Brey
ÖBB-Immobilienmanagement GmbH Vienna, Austria
Bio
Claudia Brey has been Managing Director of the ÖBB-Immobilienmanagement GmbH, a subsidiary of the ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG, since 2020. The company is responsible for the development and management of all ÖBB properties not required for railway operations. In her role as Managing Director, Brey focuses on the areas of urban development and building project development, transactions, as well as leasing and legal affairs. Prior to this, she headed the Austrian business of Generali Real Estate and managed the existing real estate portfolio of Immofinanz in Russia. She was also involved in establishing and leading the Real Estate Transaction Advisory division at EY.
SPEAKERs
Cristina Hernández-Marti Pérez
Hernandez Marti Abogados Barcelona, Spain
Bio
Cristina Hernández-Marti Pérez is a partner at Hernandez Marti Abogados in Spain, where she specializes in intellectual property law, including trademarks, IP litigation, unfair competition, contracts, and anti-counterfeiting strategies. She holds a PhD in Law and an LL.M. from the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center.
Brogan Kerr
Brodies LLP Edinburgh, Scotland
Bio
Brogan Kerr is a UK-based real estate solicitor at Brodies LLP, specialising in renewable energy development since joining the firm in October 2022. Her practice spans the full range of renewable energy technologies, including solar, onshore-wind, pumped storage and run of river hydro, and battery energy storage. Brogan represents both developers and landowners on the real estate documents that enable projects to progress from site acquisition through to financing or acquisition.
Brogan’s practice is at the intersection of real estate and renewable energy, providing an insight into how renewable development can deliver tangible benefits to the people who live alongside it – through financial contributions, biodiversity and habitat management, improved local infrastructure, and meaningful community participation.
Jesper Linder
Advokatfirman Fylgia Stockholm, Sweden
Bio
Jesper Linder works at the intersection of law and the construction industry, bringing both in-house and private practice experience to his client work. Before joining Advokatfirman Fylgia, he served as in-house counsel at a major engineering consultancy firm, which gave him a firsthand understanding of the commercial realities his clients face day to day. He represents suppliers and public authorities in complex procurement processes and infrastructure disputes, and advises clients at every stage of civil engineering and infrastructure projects. Alongside this, he provides ongoing support on contract and corporate law matters, always with the specific demands of the construction sector in mind. Over the past year, Jesper and his colleagues have advised technical consultants, public authorities and contractors on projects including hospital construction, the design of nuclear waste repositories, major road developments, and the expansion of Stockholm’s metro and tram networks. Recent procurement work also includes advising on large-scale construction projects such as water treatment plants and the Aurora Line – a new 380 km, 400 kV high-voltage transmission line jointly developed by Sweden and Finland.
Tomás Rosemary
Guerrero Olivos Santiago, Chile
Bio
Tomás is a partner at Guerrero Olivos and a member of its Band 1 real estate practice. He focuses on project development, construction and permitting, as well as the acquisition and sale of real estate projects and assets. “Tomas Rosemary is always available and willing to close business in a prompt and detailed manner. He is an excellent lawyer.” — Chambers & Partners 2026 In the academic field, Tomás serves as Professor of Real Estate Law and has taught in the Law and Real Estate Business Diploma, both at Universidad Católica de Chile. He has also served as Professor of the Urban Law and Construction Diploma at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
LOCAL LIAISON AMBASSADOR
Michaela Pelinka
SCHINDLER ATTORNEYS Vienna, Austria
Bio
Dr. Michaela Pelinka, LL.M. is a Partner at Schindler Attorneys in Vienna, where she co-heads the Real Estate practice and advises on complex domestic and cross-border real estate and corporate/M&A transactions. She regularly represents investors, developers and corporate clients in transactional, commercial and regulatory matters. Michaela has been an active member of AIJA for many years. She is also part of the Local Organising Committee for the AIJA Annual Congress 2026 in Vienna. As Local Liaison Ambassador for the “Creating Cities That Care” workshop, she has coordinated the local aspects of the session.
session coordinators
Tomás Rosemary
Guerrero Olivos Santiago, Chile .
Bio
Tomás is a partner at Guerrero Olivos and a member of its Band 1 real estate practice. He focuses on project development, construction and permitting, as well as the acquisition and sale of real estate projects and assets. “Tomas Rosemary is always available and willing to close business in a prompt and detailed manner. He is an excellent lawyer.” — Chambers & Partners 2026 In the academic field, Tomás serves as Professor of Real Estate Law and has taught in the Law and Real Estate Business Diploma, both at Universidad Católica de Chile. He has also served as Professor of the Urban Law and Construction Diploma at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
Mats Schröder
KWR Karasek Wietrzyk Rechtsanwälte Vienna, Austria
Bio
Mats Schröder has been with KWR since 2012 and Counsel since 2024. He specialises in public procurement law and is thus particularly active in the area of handling extensive award procedures in the upper and lower threshold range for public contracting authorities. In addition, Mats Schröder represents companies on the bidding side in the enforcement of claims before the public procurement control authorities. Mats Schröder spent his entire professional career (student to lawyer) at KWR. In addition to his work as a lawyer at KWR, Mats Schröder lectures in the field of public procurement law (KDZ) and, as a member of the core team of the “Young Procurement Lawyers” (ÖWAV), is jointly responsible for the organisation of events in the field of public procurement law.
Margherita Stucchi
Martini Manna & Partners Milan, Italy .
Bio
Margherita is an Italian attorney. She specializes in contentious and non-contentious intellectual property, including digital, new technologies, TMT, know-how, advertising, competition and privacy. Over the course of her career, she represented national and international clients operating across a wide range of industry sectors, such as software distribution, distribution of alcoholic and food products broadcasting, videogame, design, retail, electronics and much more. Margherita is the Co-Chair of the Aija (International Association of Young Lawyers) Women Networking and member of the IP/TMT Commission.
SESSION MODERATOR
Margherita Stucchi
Martini Manna & Partners Milan, Italy
Bio
Margherita is an Italian attorney. She specializes in contentious and non-contentious intellectual property, including digital, new technologies, TMT, know-how, advertising, competition and privacy. Over the course of her career, she represented national and international clients operating across a wide range of industry sectors, such as software distribution, distribution of alcoholic and food products broadcasting, videogame, design, retail, electronics and much more. Margherita is the Co-Chair of the Aija (International Association of Young Lawyers) Women Networking and member of the IP/TMT Commission.