Current activity

Lawyer, Auditor and Tax Advisor at Graf Kanitz, Schüppen & Partner

Professional focus

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  • Company law
  • capital markets and M&A (including venture capital and private equity)
  • mediation between (family) shareholders
  • company tax law and accounting
  • legal aspects of company valuation

Areas of law

My career

  • Dr. Matthias Schüppen studied law in Freiburg and business management in Bochum and Hagen.
  • He worked with Graf Kanitz & Partner from 1988 to 1992.
  • In 1992 he joined Haarmann Hemmelrath, where he built up the firm’s Stuttgart office in 2001.
  • Together with Thomas Graf von Kanitz and other partners he founded Graf Kanitz, Schüppen & Partner in 2006

Arbitration experience

Involved in numerous arbitration proceedings as attorney of record, five proceedings as arbitrator (also as chairman).

Publications

  • „Münchener Anwaltshandbuch Aktienrecht“ (co-editor with Bernhard Schaub), 2nd edition Munich 2010
  • „Frankfurter Kommentar zum WpÜG [incl. commentary of §§ 327a – 327f AktG und §§ 289 Abs. 4, 315 Abs. 4 HGB]“ (ed. with Wilhelm Haarmann), 3rd edition Frankfurt 2008
  • „Ablauf und Formen eines Unternehmenskaufs“ (with Susanne Walz), in: Ballwieser a.o. (ed.): „Unternehmenskauf nach IFRS und US-GAAP“, 2nd edition Stuttgart 2008
  • „Aktien“, „Die Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (KGaA)“ and „Finanzierung“, in: Seibert/Kiem/Schüppen (ed.), Handbuch der kleinen AG, 5th edition Cologne 2008
  • „Kapitalmarktrecht“, „Prospektrecht“ und „Kartellrecht“ in: IDW (ed,), „WP Handbuch 2008“ band II
  • „Going Public mittelständischer Unternehmen“, in: IDW (ed.), „Kapitalmarktorientierte Unternehmensüberwachung“, Duesseldorf 2001

Languages

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  • German
  • English

Memberships

  • i.a. Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Fachanwälte für Steuerrecht
  • Deutsche Steuerjuristische Gesellschaft
  • Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft
  • Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland e.V. (IDW)
  • German-American Lawyers Association
  • German-British Lawyers Association
  • International Bar Association
  • International Fiscal Association

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