Overview
Matthias Weissinger advises on domestic and cross-border financings as well as restructuring. His extensive experience provides valuable advice to national and international financial institutions, debt funds, sponsors, and corporate borrowers. Matthias’s expertise covers a wide range of areas, including leveraged buyouts, unitranche financings, bank/bond financings, and corporate lending for large and mid-cap companies.
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.
Results
Matthias advised:
- 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
Recognitions
- Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™, Germany: Banking and Finance Law, 2024-2026
- Chambers Europe, Band 3 in Germany: Banking & Finance, 2024-2025
- 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, 2024-2025
- 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
Credentials
Education
University of Bayreuth, Dr. Jur., 2006
University of Pennsylvania, LLM., 2003
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, First State Examination, 2002
Admissions
Germany
Languages
English
German
