Philip M. Schmoll
Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Associated Partner
Dr. Philip Schmoll is an accomplished transaction and corporate specialist. His area of expertise focuses on a multidisciplinary transactional practice, covering both capital markets transactions as well as public and private M&A transactions. In addition, he provides ongoing advice to publicly listed and private companies in corporate and capital markets law. He also specialises in advising board members on issues relating to corporate and capital market law (in particular board responsibility and liability issues). He regularly publishes on capital market and corporate law topics. Dr Philip M. Schmoll is co-founder of the professional network "German Capital Markets Lawyers" (see https://www.azur-online.de/beruf-karriere/es-ist-nie-zu-frueh-fuers-netzwerk/).
Projects
- Public (takeover) offers
Beowulf Capital/artnet, CTP/Deutsche Industrie REIT, COMMERZANK/comdirect, Fosun/TOM TAILOR, KOSTAL/Compleo Charging Solutions, Optima Group/InTiCa Systems, Schneider Electric/RIB Software, TAG Immobilien/LEG Immobilien, Weng Fine Art/artnet - IPOs
Babbel, Bike24, Compleo Charging Solutions, DFV Deutsche Familienversicherung, EV Digital Invest, fashionette, Formycon (Uplisting), Frequentis, Gateway Real Estate, Global Fashion Group, home24, Intilion, Instone Real Estate, Mister Spex, Mutares (Uplisting), MWB, Steyr Motors, STS Group, Veganz, Westwing - Capital Increases
CECONOMY, Compleo Charging Solutions, Deutsche Industrie REIT, DFV Deutsche Familienversicherung, Formycon, GREENFORCE FUTURE FOOD, Hertha BSC, H&K, HomeToGo, Hypoport, Meta Wolf, Mutares (including uplisting to Regulated Market), TAG Immobilien, The Social Chain - Conversions
Deutsche Industrie REIT on its cross-border merger into Dutch CTP, Fresenius Medical Care on its deconsolidation from Fresenius Group and its conversion from a KGaA into an AG, Mutares on its conversion from an AG into a SE & Co. KGaA
Distinctions
- “Very prudent and service-oriented”
Client, in: The Legal 500 - Recommended Lawyer for Equity Capital Markets
The Legal 500 (2023, 2024, 2025) - Recommended as lawyer of the future for capital markets law
Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers in Germany (2022 - 2025) - Recommended as lawyer of the future for corporate law
Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers in Germany (2022 - 2025)
My insights
Career
2022
Interim General Counsel of a listed SE (Prime Standard)
2022
Secondment at a leading investment bank in Frankfurt am Main
2017
With Noerr since 2017
2017
Admitted to the Frankfurt am Main Chamber of Lawyers
2015
Legal traineeship at the Berlin chamber court
2015
PhD at Heidelberg University
2013
Legal studies at the University of Heidelberg and at the Université de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Memberships
- German Capital Markets Lawyers (Co-founder)
- VGR Gesellschaftsrechtliche Vereinigung
- Verein zur Förderung des Deutschen, Europäischen und Vergleichenden Wirtschaftsrechts
Lectures
- "IPO"
Lecture in specialisation area 8 (corporate and capital markets law) at the University of Passau on 31.01.2025 - "IPO"
Lecture in specialisation area 7 (corporate and tax law) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg on 08.07.2024
Publications
- Draft of the Location Promotion Act (Standortfördergesetz) – Old wine in new bottles
NZG 2025, 1209 (Editorial) - Future Financing Act II with a new look
Börsen-Zeitung from 12/09/2025 - Issuers also benefit from block sales (with Dr. Julian Schulze De la Cruz),
Börsen-Zeitung from 03/05/2025 - Statement on the decision of the Federal Court of Justice of October 22, 2024 (II ZR 193/22) (with Sebastian de Schmidt)
WuB 2025, 101 et seq. - Practice of public offers under the WpÜG - The reasoned statements pursuant to Section 27 WpÜG in 2024 (with Benedikt Dreinhöfer)
WM 2025, 285 et seq. - Regulatory tailwind for public exchange offers (with Dr Julian Schulze De la Cruz)
Börsen-Zeitung from 20/09/2024 - Future Financing Act II - Expected, anticipated and surprising
NZG 2024, 1197 (Editorial) - Public exchange offers following the implementation of the EU Listing Act (with Dr. Julian Schulze De la Cruz)
BKR 2024, 756 et seq. - Practice of public offers under the WpÜG - The reasoned statements pursuant to Section 27 WpÜG in 2023 (with Benedikt Dreinhöfer)
WM 2024, 824 et seq. - EU Listing Act ante portas, (with Dr. Julian Schulze De la Cruz)
Börsen-Zeitung from 19.04.2024 - Unrestricted participation of retail investors in small issues of tradable shares - A proposal to amend sections 6 WpPG, 65a WpHG
WM 2024, 631 et seqq. - New prospectus requirements for sustainability-related information (with Dr. Julian Schulze De la Cruz)
Börsen-Zeitung from 16.09.2023 - The takeover procedure is digitized, but remains German-language (with Dr. Julian Schulze De la Cruz)
Börsen-Zeitung from 21.07.2023 - The Exemption Document for Public Exchange Offers pursuant to the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act under the new Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/528 (with Dr. Julian Schulze De la Cruz and Thomas Thies)
WM 2022, 1817 et seq. - EU Listing Act - Ambitious Goals of the Commission (with Dr. Julian Schulze De la Cruz)
, Börsen-Zeitung from 16.12.2022 - Share for Share (with Dr. Laurenz Wieneke)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 24.03.2021 - The publication date of reasoned statements pursuant to Section 27 WpÜG (with Philipp Roese)
NZG 2022, 1138 - Neutral opinions pursuant to Section 27 of the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act (with Dr. Volker Land)
NZG 2021, 185 et seq. - EU simplifies raising of equity capital (with Dr. Julian Schulze De la Cruz)
Börsen-Zeitung from 28.11.2020 - The Statement of the Target Company and the Consideration in Takeovers
Series of Publications "German, European and Comparative Business Law", Nomos - Exchange offers according to WpÜG in light of the new prospectus regulation (with Dr. Julian Schulze De la Cruz)
WM 2020, 630 et seq. - Not the big shot (with Dr. Julian Schulze De la Cruz)
Börsen-Zeitung from 15.02.2020
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