Prof. Dr Servatius was born in Boppard on the Rhine in 1969.
Following vocational training as a bank clerk at Deutsche Bank AG, he studied law in Mainz, Glasgow and Munich, where he passed the First State Examination in 1997 and the Second State Examination in 1999.
From 2000 to 2006, he was a research assistant at the Chair of Private Law, Trade and Company Law at the Faculty of Law of LMU Munich (Prof. Dr Lorenz Fastrich).
He was awarded his doctorate in 2004 with a thesis entitled ‘Restructuring Measures as Corporate Management’.
He completed his habilitation in 2007 with the treatise ‘Creditor Influence through Covenants – Hybrid Financing Instruments at the Intersection of Debt and Equity Financing’.
Qualified to teach private law, trade and company law, banking and capital market law, and insolvency law.
1 April 2009 Appointed University Professor (W3) and holder of the Chair of Private Law and Company Law at the University of Regensburg.
1 January 2017 – 31 August 2024: Judge in a second full-time post at the Higher Regional Court of Munich
1 October 2012 – 30 September 2015 Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Law
1 October 2019 – 30 September 2021: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Law
1 October 2021 – 30 September 2023 Dean of the Faculty of Law