Leon C. Schmitter, LL.M.

Leon C. Schmitter, LL.M.

Areas of practice

Corporate/M&A
Start-ups & Venture Capital

Leon Schmitter advises on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, in particular on how to structure and efficiently carry out the acquisition or sale of a company. He further provides corporate law advice to his clients in matters relating to German limited liability companies (GmbH) or German stock corporations (AG).

Vita

Leon Schmitter studied law at the University of Bonn (Germany). Following his legal training, which inter alia included a period of training in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), he started his professional career as a lawyer at a law firm in Cologne (Germany). Before moving to Luther, Leon Schmitter worked as an in-house lawyer at a Bonn-based company in banking and capital markets law.

Leon C. Schmitter, LL.M.

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