Peter Muth, M.A.

As a certified specialist in corporate law, my focus is on out-of-court conflict counselling and litigation in corporate and complex commercial law disputes. I have been advising on corporate litigation for over ten years and have conducted numerous complex proceedings over the full distance. I can draw on in-depth tactical and procedural expertise. I specialise in particular in

• Corporate litigation: advising and representing clients in shareholder disputes (e.g. disputes over resolutions, contentious dismissal from management and exclusion from the company) and litigation in corporate law (e.g. actions for avoidance and nullity, interim legal protection);
• M&A litigation: Advice and representation in M&A disputes (e.g. breach of guarantee clauses in company purchase agreements);
• Directors’ and officers’ liability: disputes concerning the liability of company directors and officers;
• Advice and representation in complex commercial and business law disputes (in particular with reference to Italy).

My credo: If conflicts and legal disputes cannot be avoided or resolved out of court, the legal dispute must be conducted with the utmost determination and consistency in order to ensure the long-term economic success of my clients.

In addition to conflict counselling and litigation, I advise my often long-standing clients from the upper mid-market on all corporate and commercial law matters with a particular focus on transactions (small & mid caps), in particular

• Drafting and negotiating purchase agreements for company acquisitions and sales (share deal/asset deal);
• Conducting legal due diligence reviews and preparing corresponding due diligence reports;
• Shareholder agreements (SHA), investment agreements and convertible loan agreements (CLA);
• Examination of general commercial and corporate law issues.

I also specialise in inheritance law, in particular in advising family businesses on the inheritance and corporate law aspects of company transfers during a lifetime and in disputes relating to company succession. As a certified specialist in inheritance law, I head the cross-location specialist group “Inheritance law and succession” at SNP Schlawien. Together with our team of three specialist lawyers for inheritance law at our Munich office, we can also offer our private clients a very high and specialised quality of advice in inheritance law, including at the interfaces between inheritance and tax law as well as inheritance and family law.

I am a founding member of the Italian Desk of SNP Schlawien. My special language skills enable me to advise and represent Italian clients in Germany.

I studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. After passing the assessor exam, I initially worked in a German-Italian commercial law firm in Munich and joined SNP Schlawien in 2014, becoming a partner in 2019.

In my private life, I am interested in philosophy (in addition to the Greek classics around Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, especially the first generation of the Frankfurt School around Adorno and Horkheimer and their critical theory) and studied part-time at the Jesuit School of Philosophy in Munich. I am currently studying for a doctorate in philosophy there.

• Certified specialist in inheritance law, 2023
• Partner at SNP Schlawien since 2019
• Part-time Master’s programme (M.A.) at the Munich School of Philosophy, 2014-2018
• Certified specialist in commercial and corporate law, 2016
• Admitted to the bar, 2012
• Studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

• Handelsblatt “Germany’s best lawyers” in the field of dispute resolution, since 2024
• Best Lawyers “The Best Lawyers in Germany” in the field of litigation, since 2024
• WirtschaftsWoche “Top Kanzlei” in the field of inheritance law, since 2024

• Muth, Peter: Good distribution practice of medicinal products. Commentary on OLG Stuttgart, judgement of 25 May 2023 – 13 U 72/22, in: PharmR 2023, PharmR Heft 9/2023, p. 481 ff.
• Muth, Peter; Leierseder, Ulrich: On the concretisation of “good cause” for the exclusion of a limited partner from a family business (GmbH & Co. KG). Commentary on LG Ulm, judgement of 18 May 2018 – 11 O 36/17, in: FuS – Zeitschrift für Familienunternehmen und Strategie, 06/2018, p. 206 et seq.

• German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V. – DAV)
• German-Italian Lawyers’ Association (Deutsch-Italienische Juristenvereinigung e.V. – DIJV)
• Association of Friends of the Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich e. V.
• pro philosophia e.V. Friends and Alumni of the Munich School of Philosophy