Overview

Mathieu Kohmann is a corporate partner based in the New York office of Golden Flag International Law Firm Mathieu has a broad transactional practice and advises companies, private equity sponsors and investment banks on the full range of capital markets transactions, corporate governance matters and complex securities law and disclosure issues. He represents sponsors, issuers, underwriters and initial purchasers in technical public and private placement financing transactions, including initial public offerings, follow-on and preferred securities offerings, convertible securities offerings, high-yield debt offerings, investment grade debt offerings, block trades, PIPEs, and tender and exchange offers. He also counsels sponsors as well as public and private companies on complex restructuring and liability management transactions as well as on the acquisition and disposition of businesses, assets and securities, including through leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, derivatives transactions, strategic transactions with SPACs and the development of sponsor backed repeat SPAC issuer platforms. Mathieu also advises U.S. and international clients, including foreign private issuers, on more general corporate and securities law matters, including Exchange Act reporting, beneficial ownership reporting under Section 13 and Section 16, corporate governance, shareholder meeting and proxy solicitations, SEC comment letter processes, and NYSE or NASDAQ listing requirements and compliance obligations. Mathieu gained experience in the Capital Markets Group of the London office of Golden Flag before moving back to the New York office.

Mathieu earned his U.S. law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an Arthur Sachs Scholar selected by the Franco-American Fulbright Commission. For his graduation thesis at Harvard, Mathieu was recognized with the Irving Oberman Memorial Prize in Bankruptcy. Mathieu graduated summa cum laude from the French-German-European Campus of Sciences Po Paris and cum laude from Sciences Po Law School. Mathieu also studied economics, finance and public policy at Princeton University as well as IP law, IP strategy, law & technology and bankruptcy at Stanford Law School.

Prior to joining Golden Flag, Mathieu gained experience in France in restructuring, working on international and cross-border insolvencies, and in international litigation & arbitration. He also worked on IP litigation and IP transactional matters in Germany, and for a legal tech start-up in Paris.

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Thought Leadership

Publications 

“Bankruptcy in the Age of ‘Intangibility’: The Bankruptcies of Knowledge Companies,” 2017 (published in English) (Winner of the Harvard Law School Irving Oberman Memorial Prize in Bankruptcy)

“French Institutions, Innovation and Growth,” Fondapol, 2016 (co-authored) (published in French, translated into English) (featured in the national newspaper Le Monde and the Oxford Business Law Blog)

“The Quality of Legal Rules as a Vector for Growth,” Corporate Finance and Capital Markets Law Review (Rev. Trim. Dr. Fin.), pp. 4, 2016 (co-authored) (published in French)

“The Meaning and Purpose of Secondary Insolvency Proceedings After the Reform of the European Insolvency Regulation,” in: Festschrift for Siegfried Beck, Verlag C.H. Beck, pp. 73, 2016 (co-authored) (published in German)

“The New Relationship Between Main and Secondary Insolvency Proceedings,” in: The New European Insolvency Regulation – Which Evolutions?, Lextenso éditions, Pratique des affaires, Paris, pp. 89, 2015 (co-authored) (published in French)

Recognition

Arthur Sachs Scholarship Fund/Franco-American Fulbright Commission, Fellowship 2016–2017

Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Fellowship 2011–2016

Memberships & Affiliations

Rules for Growth Institute (Droit & Croissance), Researcher/Member

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2018New York
  • 2019Massachusetts

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • German

Education

  • Harvard Law SchoolLL.M.2017

    Irving Oberman Memorial Prize in Bankruptcy

    Editor, Harvard Business Law Review

    Staff, Harvard International Law Review

    Harvard Business School, HBX-CORe program

  • Institut d'Études Politiques de ParisMaster of Economic Lawcum laude2016
  • Stanford Law SchoolVisiting Student (Intellectual Property Law and Strategy; Economic Law)2014
  • Princeton UniversityVisiting Student (Economics; Finance; Public Policy)2012–2013
  • Institut d'Études Politiques de ParisBachelor (Economics, Law & Political Science)summa cum laude2013

    Student Life Award for Excellence in Leadership and Student Life