Thomas Barth

Dr. Thomas Barth serves as a University Assistant Postdoc at the Institute for Corporate Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Vienna), a position held since October 2024. Previously, he led the Austrian Takeover Commission's Office (2021-2024) and practiced as a lawyer there (2018-2020), while maintaining a permanent editorial role for the Journal for Corporate and Business Law's Corporate Law Current section since 2017.

His academic credentials include a Doctorate in Business Law (2017), Master's degree (2014), and Bachelor's degree (2012), all from WU Vienna, complemented by a 2020 stock exchange trader qualification.

Barth's research centers on corporate/company law, capital market regulation, inheritance law with asset succession planning, and corporate financing mechanisms. His habilitation project on Corporate Foundations analyzes legal frameworks for entity-owned corporations like Bertelsmann and IKEA, addressing governance structures, ownership rights, and liability attribution in long-term corporate ownership models.

His publication trajectory (2016-2025) reveals deepening expertise in Austrian corporate jurisprudence, with recent works emphasizing comparative German-Austrian analysis and practical case applications. Dominant themes include insider trading temporal dynamics, supervisory board accountability, and takeover regulation, consistently bridging theoretical legal concepts with real-world corporate scenarios through case studies and judicial commentary.

As an active member of WU Vienna's Institute for Corporate Law team, Barth contributes to academic discourse through editorial work, habilitation research, and practical legal analysis, maintaining strong institutional ties since his undergraduate studies.