Robin Lumsden

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Robin Lumsden (born August 30, 1976 in Austria ) is an Austrian-American lawyer and entrepreneur and honorary consul of Jamaica.

Life

Robin Lumsden grew up as the son of the Austrian tennis player Lance Lumsden in Vienna and Lower Austria. His stepmother is Chris Lohner .

After he was active in tennis as a teenager, he decided in 1996 to pursue an officer career in the hunting command of the Austrian Armed Forces and was trained as an elite soldier. From 2001 to 2008 Robin Lumsden was quarterback for the Austrian American football team Baden Bruins / Südstadt Rangers in the AFL .

In 2003 Lumsden completed a minimum of law studies at the University of Vienna and in 2005 at the elite University of Berkeley . In 2008 he received his doctorate in Vienna as Dr. iur and passed the bar exams in Austria, New York and Washington DC

From 2017 to 2019, two further master’s degrees followed at Stanford University , one at the Stanford Graduate School of Business with a focus on economics and one with a focus on economics & policy , bitcoins and cryptocurrencies with Stanford professor and economist Susan Athey . His mentors include former US Secretary of State and Stanford professor Condoleezza Rice , political scientist Francis Fukuyama , long-time Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and Arnold Schwarzenegger's former cabinet chief David Crane .

Professional career

After working as a junior partner at Schönherr Rechtsanwälte , where he was a member of the team that oversaw the acquisition of Porsche by Volkswagen , Lumsden founded the commercial law firm Lumsden & Partners in 2013 with a focus on mergers & acquisitions , commercial law and blockchain . As a lawyer, he represents parts of the Schwarzenegger family in Europe and the USA and advised Sebastian Schwarzenegger on a blockchain project.

Lumsden was in 2010 the youngest honorary consul of Jamaica appointed in Austria. In 2011, at the age of 34, he was voted the second best lawyer in Austria in the " corporate law " category in a survey of law firms . In 2014, the then Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz appointed him integration ambassador to tell his successful integration story in education, work and society at schools and to discuss integration and migration with students. From 2013 to 2017 Lumsden was Vice President and Lawyer of the Austrian Tennis Association . From 2015 to 2019, Lumsden successfully defended Vienna Airport to defend against a $ 168 million lawsuit. In June he started an initiative to support disadvantaged children in Austrian schools.

Publications

  • Practical Guide to Successful Bar Exam. LexisNexis, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7007-4301-9 (since the 3rd edition, 2016: My path to a successful bar exam ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anja Reiter: Law and Jamaica. In: Die Zeit , March 3, 2016, p. 30.
  2. ↑ Austria's tennis mourns Lance Lumsden , June 19, 2011 in Tennisnet.com.
  3. ↑ Robin Lumsden - NÖTV , accessed on January 8, 2020 in Oetv.at
  4. ↑ Dr. Robin Lumsden appointed officer at the Ö-BH , accessed on January 8, 2020 in Jamaicanconsulate.at.
  5. ^ Baden near Budapest , August 3, 2005 in Football-austria.com.
  6. ^ Attorney Detail , accessed January 8, 2020 at Iapps.courts.state.ny.us.
  7. ↑ DC Bar Membership , accessed January 8, 2020 at Dcbar.org.
  8. ↑ Robin L. Lumsden , accessed January 8, 2020 in Gsb.stanford.edu.
  9. ↑ Can we predict the returns of crypto currencies? Retrieved January 8, 2020 from Publicpolicy.stanford.edu.
  10. ↑ Robin Lumsden: Mozart, Tennis, 9/11 and Condoleezza Rice , accessed on January 8, 2020 in Trend.at.
  11. ↑ Robin Lumsden: News from the great master Francis Fukuyama , accessed on January 8, 2020 in Trend.at.
  12. ↑ Lunch with Eric: Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt - from Stanford to Vienna , accessed on January 8, 2020 in Trend.at.
  13. ↑ Arnie's head of cabinet as professor , accessed on January 8, 2020 in Lumsden.at.
  14. ↑ Schönherr advises VW on the merger with Porsche in Austria and CEE , from August 20, 2009 in Extrajournal.net.
  15. ↑ Next boutique in Vienna: Fiebinger Polak's partner goes into business on May 8, 2013 in Juve.de.
  16. ↑ mc innovation: Leadership and innovation in Silicon Valley , accessed on January 8, 2020 in Managementclub.at.
  17. ↑ FPLP partner Robin Lumsden represents Jamaica: At 34, youngest honorary consul in Austria , from December 10, 2010 in Extrajournal.net.
  18. ↑ Fiebinger Polak Leon Attorneys-at-Law ranked top in ranking of lawyers Austrian weekly Format. , from April 8, 2011 in Fplp.at
  19. ↑ Dr. Robin Lumsden is Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz's new integration ambassador , dated July 31, 2014 in Managementclub.at.
  20. ↑ Vice President of ÖTV says goodbye to America / California , from June 14, 2017 in Oetv.at.
  21. ^ Sardana lawsuit in New York: Vienna Airport braces itself with Lumsden , from September 25, 2015 in Juve.de.
  22. ↑ Vienna Airport can shelve anger from the USA , accessed on January 18, 2020 in Trend.at.
  23. ↑ Laptop Challenge for Poor Children , June 17, 2020 in Kurier.at
personal data
SURNAME Lumsden, Robin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American lawyer and entrepreneur as well as honorary consul of Jamaica
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Austria