Tobias Müller is an associate in the Frankfurt office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the corporate finance team, focusing on capital market transactions with a particular experience in high-yield bond offerings and leveraged finance deals.

Tobias advises corporate issuers and borrowers in various industries as well as investment bank and private equity funds on high-yield bond, leveraged, and other financing transactions with particular focus on the DACH region.

Tobias advises on:

  • Complex high-yield bond transactions (both under US and German law)
  • “Cross-over” and investment-grade bond offerings 
  • High-yield bonds in restructuring scenarios
  • Consent solicitations, including related liability management transactions
  • Lending Transactions

Prior to joining Latham as an associate, Tobias worked as a law clerk and research assistant in the Capital Markets Practice in Latham’s Frankfurt and London offices.

Tobias’ experience includes advising:

High-Yield Bond Offerings

  • Cheplapharm Arzneimittel GmbH as issuer’s counsel on its offering of €950 million senior secured notes due 2032
  • TMD Friction Group GmbH as issuer’s counsel on its offering of €350 million senior secured notes and a €35 million super senior revolving credit facility
  • MAHLE GmbH:
    • As placement agents’ and dealer managers’ counsel on a €200 million private placement and concurrent tender offer
    • As placement agents’ counsel on a €300 million private placement
    • As banks’ counsel on a €500 million bond offering
  • IHO Verwaltungs GmbH as institutional investors’ counsel on a €320 million private placement
  • Takko Fashion GmbH as banks’ counsel on a €350 million bond offering
  • Kelvion Group as issuer’s counsel on a €475 million bond offering
  • Progroup AG as banks’ counsel on a €750 million bond offering
  • Consus Real Estate AG as banks’ counsel on several bond offerings with a total offering volume of €450 million
  • BayWa AG as issuer’s counsel on its €60 million hybrid bond offering
  • Constantia Flexibles GmbH as issuer’s counsel on its refinancing of existing debt through a Term Loan B, senior secured notes, and a revolving credit facility with a total volume of approximately €2.2 billion

Equity and Equity-Linked Financings

  • INNIO Group as issuer’s counsel on its US$2.43 billion initial public offering
  • Jumia Technologies AG as placement agents’ counsel on its at-the-market offering
  • Congatec Holding AG as issuer’s counsel on its proposed initial public offering and listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange 
  • Allgeier SE as issuer’s counsel on its spinoff and listing of Nagarro SE on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
  • Global Fashion Group S.A. as banks’ counsel in its initial public offering and listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
  • Consus Real Estate AG as banks’ counsel on its capital increase by way of a rights issue

Cross-Over Bonds

  • ACCENTRO Real Estate AG, as company’s counsel on its comprehensive restructuring and completion of the first German StaRUG, which did not require a capital reduction to zero

Lending

  • Sixt SE as lenders’ counsel on its €1.55 billion syndicated loan agreement

Bar Qualification

  • Rechtsanwalt (Germany)

Education

  • Second German State Exam, Higher Regional Court Frankfurt, 2023
  • First German State Exam, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt, 2020

Languages Spoken

  • German
  • English

Practices