Bio

Matthias Horbach is head of Skadden’s German M&A practice, advising on complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, inbound and outbound investments, corporate finance, and various other corporate transactions. Horbach’s M&A work includes advising a broad range of clients, including industrial companies, private equity investment firms and investment banks, on acquisitions, dispositions, cross-border mergers, joint ventures and public takeover transactions. In the corporate finance area, he advises banks and borrowers in acquisition finance and other banking transactions. Mr. Horbach also represents clients in intragroup restructurings, corporate governance matters and other areas of corporate law, including negotiating major commercial agreements and assisting with respect to distressed and insolvent German corporations. Mr. Horbach is included in JUVE Wirtschaftskanzleien, IFLR1000, Best Lawyers in Germany and Handelsblatt for German Corporate/M&A. In IFLR1000, a client notes Mr. Horbach “is a terrific lawyer who has deep substantive knowledge, broad technical skills and great problem-solving abilities.”