Dr. Matthias Kampshoff advises companies, board members, shareholders, investors as well as bankruptcy administrators, and creditors on all corporate and bankruptcy-law-related issues. He focuses on restructuring companies that are experiencing crises and bankruptcy situations and, in particular, on guiding companies in their debtor-in-possession proceedings (Eigenverwaltung). He regularly advises in national and international (distressed) merger and acquisition transactions. Recently, he advised in various projects, inter alia, with respect to the following industry sectors: retail, automotive, media, and information technology (IT).

Matthias serves as managing partner of McDermott’s German offices.

Matthias advised:

• Meyer family in connection with the agreements with the Federal Government and the State of Lower Saxony to stabilise Meyer Werft
• Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof in the protective shielding procedure
• The international Borgers Group during the operative restructuring and refinancing

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• Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™, “Lawyer of the Year” in Germany: Restructuring and Insolvency Law, 2025
• JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms, Recommended: Corporate Law as well as Insolvency and Restructuring: Restructuring and Reorganization, 2022-2025
• Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers™, Germany: Corporate Law, Restructuring and Insolvency Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2020-2025
• Global Restructuring Review GRR 30, Recommended, 2024

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Education
University of Münster, Dr. jur., 2003
High Court of Hamm, Second State Exam, 2001
University of Münster, First State Exam, 1998

Admissions
Germany

Languages
English
German