Dr. Matthias Möller

Matthias has been advising companies and entrepreneurs for more than 20 years on capital market law issues, in-cluding on obtaining regulatory banking approvals, structuring company and corporate bonds, structuring venture capital financing, and M&A transactions, such as:

• Advising international companies in connection with fundraising and university study grants;
• Advising on structuring and placing corporate bonds, both public offerings and private placements;
• Advising founders and investors on venture capital transactions; and
• Advising on and supporting contentious shareholders’ meetings and enforcing claims against minority shareholders as well as against former corporate executives.

• Advising the Malengo Group and Chancen eG on the structuring of debt and equity financing from investors as well as donors, and the issuance of university study grants to students from Africa and other countries for the purpose of studying in Europe
• Preparing and organizing a shareholders‘ meeting of VestCorp AG in connection with management’s bad faith actions
• Preparing and organizing a shareholders‘ meeting of LichtWesen AG in connection with actions against minority shareholders as well as the chairman of the supervisory board
• Represent the bankruptcy administrator to pursue liability claims against specific former corporate executives of VestCorp AG
• Advising Universal-Investment GmbH’s management on the acquisition by Montagu, a private equity investor, and ongoing advice in connection therewith
• Advising on the structuring and placing of various public and private corporate bond offerings, e.g.,

1. nextbike Bond 2017/2022 5% interest – secured corporate bond for EUR 10 million, partial exchange of the 2016 private placement bond (public placement)
2. Africa GreenTec Annuity Bond 2017/2027 6.5% interest – secured corporate bond for EUR 10 million (private placement)
3. SCP Eisenzahnstraße 11-16 GmbH & Co. KG Bond 2017/2020 5.5% interest, secured corporate bond for EUR 10 million (CSSF approval and notification by BaFin and the Austrian FMA)
4. CHANCEN eG Bond 2019/2031 3.0% interest – secured bond for EUR 13 million (public placement)
5. nextbike GmbH Bond 5.25% 2020/2025 – secured corporate bond for EUR 20 million (private placement)

• Financing Studies through Education Funds (Studienfinanzierung durch Bildungsgenossenschaften), co-author with Prof. Dr. Hans-Gert Vogel, ZfgG 2025, 75(3); pp. 153
• Financing Studies through Education Funds – Structuring, Legal Nature and Applicable Regulations (Studienfinanzierung durch Bildungsfonds – Gestaltung, Rechtsnatur und anwendbare Vorschriften), co-author with Prof. Dr. Hans-Gert Vogel, ZBB 2024, pp. 194
• Financing Studies through Education Funds, Legal Form Issues, and Refinancing (Studienfinanzierung durch Bildungsfonds, Rechtsformfragen und Refinanzierung), co-author with Prof. Dr. Hans-Gert Vogel, ZBB 2024, pp. 375
• Section 7 (Joint Representation of Creditors) and Section 8 (Appointment of Joint Representative in a Bond’s Terms and Conditions); Matthias Möller and Kristina Riedel in: Preusse/Vogel (Editors), Bond Act (SCHVG), Act on Bonds from Overall Issuances, Commentary, 2nd ed. 2023
• Article 15 EU Growth Prospectus; Matthias Möller and Tobias Habermann, in: Assmann/Schlitt/von Kopp-Colomb, Prospectus Law Commentary, 4th edition, 2022
• Corporate Financing on the Capital Market  –  Beyond the COVID-19 Strained Credit Institutions (Unternehmensfinanzierung am Kapitalmarkt – jenseits der COVID-19 strapazierten Kreditinstitute), NZG 21/2020, p. 816, (co-author with Tobias Habermann)
• The EU-Growth Prospectus – an Alternative for Small and Medium-Sized Companies (Der EU-Wachstumsprospekt – eine Alternative für kleine und mittelständische Unternehmen), BKR 2020, p.161 (co-author with Alexandra Ziegltrum)
• Success of the Modernization of the Legal Framework Conditions for Venture Capital in Germany? Claims and Reality (Erfolg bei der Modernisierung der rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen für Wagniskapital in Deutschland? Anspruch und Wirklichkeit), co-author with Axel Schilder, Betriebs-Berater (BB) 2007, p. 2753
• Right of Inspection of the Statutory Auditor‘s Reports Pursuant to Section 321 a Commercial Code (Einsichtsrecht nach § 321 a HGB in die Prüfungsberichte des gesetzlichen Abschlussprüfers), co-author with Karl-Heinz Forster and Hans Friedrich Gelhausen, Die Wirtschaftsprüfung (WPg) May, 2007, p. 191
• Support of Private Equity and Venture Capital Through Proposed Improvements to the Tax Framework (Förderung von Private Equity und Venture Capital durch geplante Verbesserung der steuerlichen Rahmenbedingungen), Betriebs-Berater (BB) 2006, p. 971
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Holdings (Venture Capital- & Private Equity-Beteiligungen), co-author with Axel Pfeifer, in Moritz (Editor), Handbook on Financial and Asset Advice (Finanz- und Vermögensbe-ratung), 2004
• Corporate Structuring of Venture Capital Financing (Rechtsformen der Wagnisfinanzierung), Frankfurt am Main 2002 (PhD thesis)
• Contracting Between Start-Ups and Investors (Vertragsgestaltung zwischen Start-up Unternehmen und Investoren), co-author with Theodor Baums, in:
  Hommel (Editor), Value Oriented Management for Start-Ups (Wertorientiertes Start-Up-Management), Munich 2002
• Venture Capital: US Model and German Stock Law (Venture Capital: US-amerikanisches Modell und deutsches Aktienrecht), in: Baums and Hopt (Editors), Corporations, Capital Markets and Business in the Law, London 2000; co-author with Theodor Baums

• Academic Association for Enterprise and Corporate Law (Gesellschaftsrechtliche Vereinigung – Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht (VGR) e.V.)
• Founding Member of German Stanford Student Association
• Founding Member of Society of German Students in Osnabrueck as part of the Association of Societies of German Students (Verein Deutscher Studenten zu Osnabrück im VVDSt)

Matthias has been a German Attorney at Law since 2003 and a Partner at SCHIEDERMAIR since 2015.

Prior to joining SCHIEDERMAIR, Matthias practiced for eight years (six as Local Partner) with the German firm of GSK STOCKMANN & KOLLEGEN, also in the corporate arena.  Before that, Matthias worked for two years at PRICEWATERHOUSE COOPERS Wirtschaftsprüfungsge-sellschaft in the Legal and National Accounting Department.  Matthias began his career as an attorney with the Frankfurt law firm of MPK.

Before being admitted to the German Bar, Matthias was a Research Fellow of Prof. Dr. Dr. mult. Theodor Baums, during which he completed a doctoral thesis on the comparative legal framework of venture capital financing in the United States and Germany.  During this period, he completed research at Stanford University in California.  He earned his doctorate in 2002.

• Matthias’ doctoral thesis was awarded a sponsorship prize from the Heinz-Ansman Foundation.
• He is listed in the Legal 500 (2014) and in JUVE 2019/2020, 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024, and 2024/2025 as a Recommended Lawyer in Corporate Law. And M&A.
• Nominated for the Platow Legal Award 2013 for the legal services he provided in the “VestCorp-Case”.