Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Litigation

Matthias Schrader is a partner and heads Willkie’s Litigation Practice Group in Germany. In addition to domestic and international litigation and arbitration matters, his practice focuses on compliance and regulatory matters across a broad spectrum of industries.

As a litigator, Matthias acts as counsel to both claimants and respondents in a wide variety of commercial litigations and arbitrations before various courts and arbitral tribunals under the auspices of the world’s leading arbitral institutions (ICC, LCIA, SIAC, DIS, etc.). He has successfully negotiated out-of-court settlements of complex disputes for a variety of commercial and private clients. Furthermore, he has represented sovereigns in litigations as well as international investment arbitrations. Matthias also acts as arbitrator in high-stakes commercial arbitrations.

Matthias regularly advises clients on matters of European and German anti-money-laundering and anti-terrorism-financing regulations, sanctions, financial markets compliance, including allegations of insider trading and market manipulation, antitrust and State-aid law and day-to-day compliance issues. He represents a diverse client base including health care, chemicals, natural resources, energy and mining, consumer goods and retail, high-tech, automotive, real estate and financial institutions.

In addition to in-court representation, Matthias has acted for clients towards state prosecutors, regulatory authorities and public consumer associations on matters of proper business conduct and fair competition.

German and English

New York University School of Law, LLM, 2014

State of Hesse, Second State Exam, 2011

Universität Heidelberg, First State Exam, 2008