Matthias Wagner

Matthias Wagner provides legal advice to national and international investors (funds, institutional investors, investment and asset managers and wealthy individuals) pertaining to real estate law and the legal areas associated with this. The focus of his work is advising on transactions and on asset management. In addition, he also assists with disputes that are related to real estate and advises on commercial tenancy law and the law governing agents and brokers.

As a notary, Matthias Wagner mainly provides advice on real estate and corporate law. Notarisations can be carried out in German and in English.

Real Estate
Corporate/M&A
Notarial Services

Matthias Wagner is a trained banker and studied law in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and in Keele (England) from 1996 to 2001. As part of his legal training in Darmstadt (Germany) he worked for a law firm in Boston (USA), having previously spent a semester at the University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer (Germany).

He was admitted to the German Bar in 2004. In 2007 he became a Certified Specialist in Rental and Residential Property Law and in 2018 he was admitted as a German notary. He was a Partner at Simmons & Simmons LLP up until 2019. He has been a Partner at Luther since 2020.

Matthias Wagner is a member of the Working Group for Tenancy and Real Estate Law and the Working Group for Lawyers Who Are Commissioned as Notaries, both of which are Groups belonging to the German Lawyers’ Association.

• The Legal 500 Germany 2023: Recommended in "City Focus Frankfurt"
• The Legal 500 Germany 2021: Listed in "Real Estate Law" (first award "Name of the Next Generation" in 2018, "captivating through lightning-fast response times and always providing practical usable advice")
• Best Lawyers 2025: Recommended in "Real Estate Law" (first recommended in 2022)

• Legal advice Space Plus Store on the acquisition of several real estate for self-storage units
• Legal advice SleevesUp! on commercial lease law
• Legal advice family office on commercial lease law and insolvency law (lender side)
• Advising a US investor on all legal matters relating to asset management for a large logistics property portfolio.

• Die Rechtsprechung des BGH zu Schönheitsreparaturklauseln seit 2006
• Investmentmodernisierungsgesetz - Überblick und Neuerungen für Immobilienfonds.

• Preventive restructuring of companies in 2021: possible course of procedures under the draft German Business Stabilisation and Restructuring Act and the impact these procedures will have on the real estate market