Start-up
From start-up, through the arrival of investors, to the exit. We support you in building and developing your business.
Key areas of our consulting services include:
- Incorporation of limited companies and partnerships
- Establishment of holding structures
- Shareholding schemes under Section 19a of the German Income Tax Act (EStG)
- ESOP/VSOP
- Business valuation
- Share Purchase Agreement (SPA)
- Asset Purchase Agreement (APA)
- Capital increases
- Funding rounds
- Convertible loans
- Pre-seed/pre-IPO
- Restructuring
- Asset protection
- Exit taxation (relocation)
- Wealth succession
- Tax compliance (financial accounting, annual accounts and tax returns)
- International tax law
Questions raised by our clients include:
- What corporate structure makes the most sense for my business?
- What provisions should the articles of association and bylaws of start-ups contain?
- Does it make sense to set up a holding company structure?
- How can I give employees a stake in the company?
- How do funding rounds work?
- Can the interests of founders and investors be balanced?
- What opportunities and risks does an exit present?
- What is the value of the company?
- What is the process for an M&A transaction?
- Are there ways to optimise the tax treatment of a future sale of the company prior to an exit?
- How can the accumulated wealth be safeguarded and optimised for future wealth succession?
- What options are available for relocating one’s residence abroad in a tax-neutral manner (exit taxation)?
From the very first idea, we guide you through every stage of a company’s life cycle and identify legal and tax structures tailored to your needs. In this way, we give you the freedom to focus fully on building and growing your business idea.
Advising companies and their founders has always been a central part of our work. We assist with the drafting of articles of association and statutes, specifically addressing the particular requirements of start-ups. Where necessary, we also support the conversion to a public limited company (AG) or European Company (SE). Furthermore, we assist with the drafting of contracts with initial customers and service providers. The aim is to secure opportunities and minimise risks at an early stage.
We develop employee share schemes and ensure their legally compliant implementation. Our scope of services also includes accounting and tax reporting to the tax authorities.
We also provide comprehensive advice on international matters such as relocating abroad, and review and structure a tax-optimised process. In the context of funding rounds, we assist with the preparation of term sheets and the presentation of company figures, or support you with the issue of new shares as part of capital increases. Furthermore, we negotiate your SPA and guide you through to closing.
We also provide comprehensive advice on international matters such as relocating abroad, and review and structure a tax-optimised process. In the context of funding rounds, we assist with the preparation of term sheets and the presentation of company figures, or support you with the issue of new shares as part of capital increases. In addition, we negotiate your SPA and guide you through to closing.
Should conflicts arise between the founding shareholders or with investors, we are on hand to provide both advisory and strategic support. We help you to assert your interests whilst developing viable, economically sound solutions.
Our advisory approach is interdisciplinary: we think beyond the boundaries of individual disciplines and provide tax-optimised, comprehensive solutions from a single source. We offer a one-stop shop. We are small enough to respond quickly and flexibly to enquiries and changing circumstances, whilst possessing the necessary breadth of expertise to cover all relevant areas of law.
