McDermott Will & Schulte, a global law firm

In addition to his financing work, he has a strong background in complex debt restructurings, out-of-court solutions, insolvency proceedings, and distressed M&A transactions.

Matthias regularly publishes and lectures on insolvency and restructuring issues and acquisition finance.

Prior to joining McDermott Will & Schulte, Matthias was a partner at several leading international law firms.

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• Rantum Capital in the refinancing of NOBIX Group
• Main Capital Partners on the acquisition and financing of the acquisition of a majority stake in EIKONA AG
• on Financing the Launch of New Tax and Audit Platform Atania
• Ardian on the acquisition of a majority stake in centrotherm international AG
• Barings on refinancing of Operasan
• Consortium of lenders on refinancing of Schell’s acquisition by Paragon Partners
• ELF Capital on the financing of the acquisition of the digital agencies Vignold and GSDH by DRS Investment
• Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich on financing of the acquisition of Zedal AG
• Main Capital Partners and German software provider Foconis on the acquisition of Swiss MACD
• NORD Holding on the acquisition and financing of the acquisition of Oehm und Rehbein
• NORD/LB on the financing of the merger of cisbox and windata
• On new growth financing for Rantum Capital Portfolio Company Aqua Group
• Main Capital Partners and Timegrip on the acquisition of Software4You
• NORD/LB on the financing of the Merger of mps and MACH
• NORD Holding on the acquisition of HKS health solutions and on the financing of the acquisition
• Eurazeo on refinancing of The Relevance Group
• NORD/LB on acquisition financing for enventa Group
• Main Capital Partners on the acquisition and financing of the acquisition of procilon Group from Harald Quandt Industriebeteiligungen
• Argos Wityu on the financing of the acquisition of Laundry Service Provider Lavatio
• Eurazeo on financing the acquisition of a Controlling Stake in UNITY AG by DBAG
• Kreissparkasse Biberach on acquisition financing for VTC
• NORD/LB on the financing of the acquisition of mps public solutions (mps) by software investor Main Capital Partners
• Eurazeo SE as the lender on the financing of AOE Group
• NORD Holding on the acquisition and the financing of the acquisition of ABJ alive
• NORD/LB on the financing of acquiring a majority stake in German P2P software provider cisbox GmbH by Dutch software investor Main Capital

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• The Legal 500 EMEA, “Leading Partner” in Germany: Banking and Finance: Lending and Borrowing, 2025-2026
• The Legal 500 EMEA, “Leading Individual” in Germany: Credit and Acquisition Finance, 2025
• JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms, Recommended: Insolvency and Restructuring: Restructuring and Reorganization as well as Loans and Acquisition Financing, 2024-2026
• The Legal 500 EMEA, “Next Generation Partner” in Germany: Banking and Finance, 2023-2024
• Global Restructuring Review GRR 30, Recommended, 2024
• Chambers Global, “up and coming” in Germany: Banking and Finance, 2017-2020
• The Legal 500 EMEA, Recommended, Germany: Banking and Finance Law, 2019
• IFLR 100, “Highly regarded”: Banking, 2023

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