The business law firm DORDA is starting its 50th anniversary year with a clear agenda for the future: the partnership has elected a new Management Committee that combines experience, innovative strength, and a consistent focus on future issues. With Francine Brogyányi, partner and head of the Health & Life Science Group, Andreas Zahradnik, partner and co-head of Banking and Capital Markets and head of the Sustainability Group, and Christian Ritschka, partner in the M&A team, a leadership team that is already helping to shape and further expand key future topics in the industry is taking over strategic management.
DORDA is deliberately sending a signal: continuity in leadership is combined with strong development and a focus on innovation. This is a claim that has accompanied the firm for five decades and today makes it one of Austria's leading business law firms.
In this anniversary year, the new Management Committee continues to focus consistently on future viability. A key priority is the ongoing development of the AI strategy. In an increasingly fast-paced digital world, it is also extremely important for a law firm to embed forward-looking technologies in its day-to-day work and consulting services.
Special thanks go to the outgoing members of the Management Committee, Axel Anderl and Martin Brodey. Together with Francine Brogyányi, they have shaped the strategic development of the firm over many years: from positioning it in future-oriented areas of law to its early focus on AI and the consistent anchoring of Clarity as its central brand promise. These decisions will continue to have a decisive impact in the coming years.
Francine Brogyányi, Managing Partner: "In recent years, Axel Anderl, Martin Brodey, and I have achieved a great deal that we can be proud of as a team. The clear positioning of the DORDA brand through our value of clarity, both in advising our clients and in internal management. We have also strengthened existing practice areas and successfully established new industry groups. In addition, we have succeeded in further professionalizing the firm, significantly increasing diversity, and sustainably advancing the overall successful development of DORDA.
I would like to express my sincere thanks to Axel Anderl and Martin Brodey for their joint commitment and shared vision, which I now have the privilege of continuing in a new setup."
Christian Ritschka, Managing Partner: "For us, artificial intelligence is not an end in itself, but a tool that helps us create clarity for our clients. When AI is used correctly, it frees up time for what really matters: legal quality, strategic thinking, and genuine advice. Our goal is to integrate AI into our daily work in such a way that it provides tangible support to our employees and makes DORDA even more efficient and future-proof overall."
Andreas Zahradnik, Managing Partner: "The people at DORDA are the foundation of our sustainable success. They embody our principle of 'Clarity' in our daily work and, with their professionalism, are also shaping the path of the firm in its 50th year of existence. The targeted promotion of young talent, whose professional development we actively support, is particularly important to us. In this way, we ensure that our promise of ‘clarity creates advantage’ will continue to hold true in the future."
50 years of DORDA – and a clear view of the future
By strengthening its brand, focusing on future technologies, promoting the next generation, and with a management team that combines experience with innovative strength, DORDA is laying the foundation for the coming decades: clear, future-oriented, and a reliable partner for excellence in commercial law in Austria and beyond.
