Dr. Tobias Schönhaar, LL.M.

Attorney | Partner

Location: München

T: +49 89 2778253-0
tobias.schoenhaar@greengate.legal

Main Focus Areas
  • Advising national and international clients of all sizes in the areas of venture capital, private equity and mergers & acquisitions;
  • General corporate law advice to companies at any stage of their business, from incorporation to exit or successful establishment of the company in the market.
Languages
  • German
  • English
Education

2014 – 2022

Weitnauer Rechtsanwälte, Munich, Partner

2010 – 2014

AFR Aigner Fischer Radlmayr, Munich, Senior Associate

2009 – 2011

Doctorate in capital market law with Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter Sester, Freiburg im Breisgau

2008 – 2009

Baker McKenzie, Munich, Associate

2007 – 2008

Master of Laws (LL.M.) Bond University, Australia

2005 – 2007

Legal clerkship at Stuttgart District Court

2002 – 2005

University of Constance

2000 – 2002

University of Tuebingen

Publications (sample selection)
  • Incentivizing Founders by Granting Zero Shares, GWR 2020, 313ff.
  • Basic Features of the Procedure of Liquidation of a GmbH, GWR 2020, 1ff.
  • Structuring of virtual employee incentive programs, GWR 2017, 293ff.
  • Convertible loans as a financing instrument, GWR 2016, 6ff.
  • Tax recognition of incongruent profit distribution agreements in the case of limited liability companies (GmbH), GWR 2014, 361ff. (together with Dr. Carsten Dunkmann).
  • Procedural sequences in company purchase agreements in medium-sized companies, GWR 2014, 273ff.
Other

Awarded “Top Lawyer Corporate Law 2019” by WirtschaftsWoche in cooperation with Handelsblatt Research Institute (HRI) in the category of the best corporate lawyers in Germany.