03.06.2026
The British investment firm Oakley Capital will acquire the operating company of Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna (SFU) through the Austrian OCG Skilled Education Holding GmbH (Skilled Education). The sellers are SFU’s founders, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alfred Pritz, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jutta Fiegl and Mag. Dr. Heinz Laubreuter.
Founded in Vienna in 2005, Sigmund Freud Private University is today Austria’s largest private university. More than 6,000 students are enrolled in the Faculties of Medicine, Psychology, Psychotherapy Science and Law. SFU also operates at several branches across Europe.
Oakley Capital is an international investment firm with experience in the education, higher education, and technology sectors. For the acquisition, the Austrian holding company OCG Skilled Education Holding GmbH was established. Skilled Education is led by a group of international education and higher education experts under the leadership of Kevin Lynch.
E+H acts as sole legal counsel for the selling founders of SFU with a team led by Dominik Juster. The buy-side is advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and DORDA Rechtsanwälte. The closing of the transaction is subject to customary conditions.
E+H Rechtsanwälte
Lead: Dominik Juster (Partner, Corporate + M&A)
Further: Peter Winkler, Philipp Schrader (Partner, Corporate + M&A), Bernhard Walter (Attorney-at-Law, Corporate + M&A), Dominic Hamann, Miriam Harrich (Associate, Corporate + M&A), Judith Feldner (Partner, FDI / Antitrust), Ken Edelson (Associate, FDI / Antitrust), Georg Knafl (Partner, Regulatory), Michael Tiefenböck (Corporate + M&A)
