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.

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.

• Legal 500 Germany (2019): listed as "name of the next generation" under real estate law
• Legal 500 Germany (2018): listed as "name of the next generation" under real estate law

• Ongoing legal advice to M7 Real Estate on the acquisition, management and sale of property (asset and share deals).
• Advising a US investor on all legal matters relating to asset management for a large logistics property portfolio.
• Advising the real estate group LBBW Immobilien on the acquisition of a retail property in Berlin and on the sale of an office property in Munich.
• Ongoing advice to the Tally Weijl Group on commercial tenancy law.
• Providing legal support and advice to a family office in Hamburg on the project development of a hotel in the South of Germany.