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Sabine Schomaker

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JUVE 2025/2026

“very good, comprehensive, and pragmatic advice”, client

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Sabine is a lawyer for the fields of finance and a proven expert in financing transactions. Banks, financial institutions, private-equity investors, and national and international group companies rely on her expertise.

Her portfolio includes a wide range of consulting services such as acquisition financing, corporate financing, restructurings, and syndicated lending. Sabine also advises on other types of lending, for instance, real estate or project financing. As a pragmatic and acclaimed negotiator, she advises on complex client matters, both at a national and cross-border level.

Sabine is a member of the partner council at Taylor Wessing Germany.

 

Expertise

Services and Groups

Banking & finance
Real estate finance
Corporate finance
Project finance
Acquisition & leveraged finance

Sectors

Financial institutions & insurance
Real estate
Life sciences & healthcare
Fintech
Health & social care and investors

CV

Since 2017 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2013 – 2016 Partner, leading international law firm
2006 – 2012 Local Partner, leading international law firm
1998 – 2005 Associate/Senior Associate, leading international law firms
1997 – 1998 Research assistant, professorship for criminal law, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
1998 Admitted as a lawyer
1997 Second state examination
1994 – 1997 Legal clerkship, District Court of Frankfurt am Main
1994 First state examination

Career

Since 2017 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2013 – 2016 Partner, leading international law firm
2006 – 2012 Local Partner, leading international law firm
1998 – 2005 Associate/Senior Associate, leading international law firms
1997 – 1998 Research assistant, professorship for criminal law, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

Education

1998 Admitted as a lawyer
1997 Second state examination
1994 – 1997 Legal clerkship, District Court of Frankfurt am Main
1994 First state examination

Additional languages

English

Awards

JUVE 2025/2026

Featured

“very good, comprehensive, and pragmatic advice”, client

JUVE 2025/2026

Frequently recommended lawyer for lending and acquisition finance

Lexology Index 2025

Thought Leader: Germany - Banking

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2025

Best lawyers: Project finance and development practice

Ranked Lawyer for Banking and Finance Law

Recommended Lawyer for Credit Law

Sabine Schomaker predominantly advises well-known German banks as lenders on medium-sized corporate finance transactions, covering both syndicated and bilateral structures. She also assists private equity firms and their portfolio companies with refinancings.

Sabine Schomaker is very pragmatic, handles difficult clients well, which is great, and can moderate different points of view., Banking & Finance client

“strong mid-cap expertise, pleasant collaboration”, competitor

Frequently recommended lawyer for loans and acquisition financing.

Leading individual: Leveraged Buyouts

Leading individual: Project Finance and Development Practice

Leading individual: Banking and Finance Law

Ranked lawyer for Banking & Finance

"Sabine Schomaker is highly experienced and knowledgeable and for me it's a no-brainer to mandate her."

Recommended lawyer for credit law

Frequently recommended lawyer for loans and acquisition financing.

Recommended Lawyer: Germany - Banking

Leading individual: Leveraged Buyouts

Leading individual: Project Finance and Development Practice

Leading individual: Banking and Finance Law

Experience

Successful financing and add on acquisitions for Oberberg Group

Oberberg Group on the successful refinancing of its existing credit lines. The new financing also served several add-on acquisitions. This included the internationally renowned private clinic Jägerwinkel am Tegernsee, which is expanding the treatment spectrum of the Group with its range of integrative holistic psychosomatics with a focus on interdisciplinary pain therapy. In addition, Panorama Fachklinik, an acute hospital for psychosomatics, and Privatklinik Hubertus im Allgäu, a specialist hospital for psychosomatics, psychotherapy and naturopathy, were acquired.

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Ulf Gosejacob
Sabine Schomaker
Dr. Michael Beyer, Dipl.-Volkswirt
Dr. Oliver Kirschner
Christopher Peine

EQT Midmarket on financing issues in connection with the sale of the I.S. Aviation Operations business

EQT Midmarket, a fund advised by the Swedish financial investor EQT, on financing issues in connection with the sale of the E.I.S. Aviation Operations business to the UK defence and research company, QinetiQ, and the structuring, amendment and revision of the financing.

Ulf Gosejacob
Sabine Schomaker
Maike Schöber

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