Düsseldorf
+49 211 600 55-248 +49 211 600 55-290 p.mueller@heuking.de
Languages
German, English, French, Turkish
Practice groups/Expertise
Consulting focuses
- Venture Capital
- French Desk/ Turkey Desk
- Start-ups
- Aviation
- Corporate / M&A
- Reorganisation [of group of companies]
Vita
- Admitted since 2014
- Member of our French Desk
- Education and former activities
- Degree Venture Finance Program at the University of Oxford (Saïd Business School) - Executive Education - Entrepreneurship & Venture Finance Program 2022
- Second state examination, OLG Düsseldorf 2014
- Baker & McKenzie (trainee and research assistant) 2013 - 2014
- Doctorate 2012
- Master program at the University of the West of England (focus Commercial Law) 2011
- Additional training in Banking and Capital Markets 2011
- First state examination (OLG Hamm) 2010
- Legal studies at the University of Münster 2005 - 2010
Qualifications/current topics
Patrick Müller is an Equity Partner in the Düsseldorf office of HEUKING.
He specialises in national and cross-border M&A transactions, including group restructurings under the UmwG. He also specialises in providing comprehensive advice to start-ups, scale-ups and their investors in the area of venture capital through all growth phases (financing rounds, convertible loans, employee participation, exits, etc.). He also regularly advises on corporate law issues and shareholder disputes.
Patrick Müller is also involved as a lecturer at various universities of applied sciences and as a mentor in various accelerator programmes. He utilises his many years of experience from numerous complex transactions to provide his clients with comprehensive, innovative and efficient advice. He is also active in HEUKING's French and Turkey Desk. Patrick Müller is recommended by Legal 500 (Germany/EMEA 2024) for corporate law.
- Lecturer for business and media, Hochschule Fresenius
- Visiting lecturer for Corporate Law and M&A at the FOM Hochschule für Ökonomie & Management
- Lecturer in the field of Corporate/M&A at ADI (Academy for real estate industry)
- Mentor at High.Tech NRW
- Mentor at RKN
- Mentor at Pioneer Lab
- Partner of the Female Founder Accelerator ElevateHer
- Co-initiator of the HEUKING Venture Capital Night series - responsible for the Düsseldorf/Rhine-Ruhr area
Affiliations
- Mentor of the High.Tech-NRW Start-up Accelerator Program
- Start-up mentor of the Pioneer Ventures Lab Incubator Program
- Club des Affaires en Rhenanie du Nord-Westphalie e.V.
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- Verein Junger Düsseldorfer Wirtschaftsanwälte (JDWA)
- Bundesverband mittelständische Wirtschaft (BVMW)
- DFJ – Deutsch-Französische Juristenvereinigung
- Supporting member of the Düsseldorfer StartupDorf e.V.
- AIJA (Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats) (Labour Law Commission)
Dr. Patrick Müller's Distinctions
Legal 500 EMEA 2024
Legal 500 Germany 2024
Legal 500 Germany 2023
Latest news
Projects
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Advising a Dutch investor on the acquisition of the CEP Group based in Cologne, Germany
Publications
2022
Das ist ab sofort neu beim dem Fondsstandortgesetz
StartupValley 05/2022, p 56-57
Reform des Umwandlungsrechts
Update Corporate/M & A No. 31
2021
Gründungsphasen einer GmbH - Einfacher Kniff für mehr Sicherheit
Startup Valley Magazin, p. 36, October 29, 2021,
together with Dr. Markus Rabe, LL.M. (University of Queensland) Drei Phasen der GmbH-Gründung: So kann man das private Haftungsrisiko in der Gründungsphase geringhalten
deutsche-startups, October 6, 2021
mbH-Gründung: Mit diesem Trick könnt ihr eure Firma auch ohne Notar starten
Business Insider Deutschland, August 11, 2021
GmbH-Gründung: Mit diesem Trick könnt ihr eure Firma auch ohne Notar starten
GründerSzene, August, 11, 2021
Rechtsprechungswechsel zum Umfang der Vertretungsmacht des Stiftungsvorstands
Update Corporate/M&A No. 21,
together with Dr. Markus Rabe, LL.M. (University of Queensland) Haftung der Gründer in den einzelnen GmbH-Gründungsphasen
Update Corporate/M&A No. 20,
together with Dr. Markus Rabe, LL.M. (University of Queensland) Neue Gesellschafterstruktur: Grotkamp-Familie übernimmt mit Heuking alle Anteile an Funke Mediengruppe
Juve Online, June 22, 2021
EU fördert Mobilität von Kapitalgesellschaften
Börsenzeitung, April 10, 2021
2020
EU Company Law Package 2018
Newsletter Gesellschaftsrecht/M&A, December 2020
2019
Kündigung unwirksamer Geschäftsführerverträge und Widerruf von Versorgungszusagen
Newsletter Gesellschaftsrecht/M&A Dezember 2019
Co-Author Münchener Anwaltshandbuch Personengesellschaftsrecht,
§ 1 Rechtsformen and § 20 Nachfolge. Münchener Anwaltshandbuch Personengesellschaftsrecht, 3rd edition 2019
Differenz- und Existenzvernichtungshaftung bei der Verschmelzung zweier GmbHs
Newsletter Gesellschaftsrecht / M&A, April 2019
2018
Haftung des Liquidators einer GmbH
Newsletter Gesellschaftsrecht/M&A November 2018 (in German language)
Arbeitnehmermitbestimmung einer Holding-Gesellschaft bei ausländischer Konzernleitung
Newsletter Gesellschaftsrecht/M&A July 2018 (in German language)
Lectures
2023
Mitarbeiterbeteiligungs-Programme (VSOP)
StartuoDorf e.V., June 05, 2023, Düsseldorf
Venture Capital
Startup-Woche Düsseldorf 2023 - Vortragsreihe RECHT KLAR UND SICHER, 22. Mai 2023
Opening presentation
Heuking Venture Capital Night, Düsseldorf, May 29 2023