Tobias Habermann

German Attorney at Law since 2019
Associate

Languages: German, English

  • M&A
  • Private Equity
  • Venture Capital
  • Banking Supervision Law / Capital Markets Law
  • Corporate Law

Advising on M&A transactions, either share deals or asset deals, a good part of Mr. Tobias Habermann’s practice involves drafting contracts (e.g. share purchase agreements, letters of intent, non-disclosure agreements, shareholders’ agreement, participation agreements), conducting due diligence, including “red flag” due diligence reports, and accompanying transactions to the closing for sellside or buyside.

Tobias advises mainly financial or strategic investors and sellers regarding mid cap transactions.

As part of his venture capital and private equity practice, Tobias advises founders, shareholders, and investors, always paying close attention to the specific situation of the company.  Tobias ensures that his clients’ interests are represented and seeks to achieve a balanced and target-oriented cooperation between the parties.

Tobias assists clients in matters of Banking Supervision Law and develops business models within the framework of banking regulations, together with clients and in discussions with Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). Tobias structures financing models for his clients.

  • Sale of Testsolutions GmbH
  • Regular advice to (small cap) financial investor to acquire targets in various Buy & Build platforms (Private Equity)
  • Regular advice to bank institute to acquire various participations (Venture Capital, Joint Venture)
  • Sale of investment service provider
  • Advice to founder team regarding capital market and financial services
  • Acquisitions of dental labs for financial investor (Private Equity)
  • Due diligence regarding acquisition health care service provider
  • Due diligence regarding acquisition of software service provider
  • Acquisition of minority participation for strategic investor
  • Due diligence regarding acquisition of an automotive/electromobility enterprise
  • Advice to public fund on growth and innovation
  • Advice to founder team regarding capital market and financial services
  • Advice to company in connection with breaching German Banking Act regulations vis-à-vis the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority including development of a regulatory compliant business model and financing options
  • Advice to mobility-systems market leader on structuring and issuing a corporate bond as a private placement
  • Prospektrecht Kommentar (ProspVO, WpPG, DelVO 2019/979, DelVO 2019/980, VermAnlG und VermVerkProspV); 4th edition, ed by: Assmann, Schlitt und von Koo-Colomb; my contribution: art. 15 ProspVO; co-author with Dr. Matthias Möller
  • 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, S. 816, (co-author with Dr. Matthias Möller/SCHIEDERMAIR)
  • Exemption from Section 181 German Civil Code (BGB) in in connection with financing rounds, NZG 2020, 965 co-author Dr Leif Gösta Gerling (LL.M. (USA))
Tobias was admitted to the German Bar in 2019, and has been an Associate at SCHIEDERMAIR since 2019.

Prior to joining SCHIEDERMAIR, Tobias completed his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main. During this time, he worked as a Research Assistant in a medium-sized German law firm. Tobias finished his studies in Law at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany.