We advise with a focus on corporate law, employment law and tax law, on site in Munich and online throughout Germany.
As an attorney for start-ups, Daniel Donhauser advises on formation, financing, growth and exit. Learn more about Donhauser Start-Up Consulting.
Daniel Donhauser provides strategic and design advice and is a specialist in corporate finance. Learn more about Daniel Donhauser.
with special expertise in corporate law, employment law and tax law. We advise founders, entrepreneurs, start-ups, investors, employees and employers as well as managing directors and shareholders.
Our value add is strategic and interdisciplinary advice on investments, corporate acquisitions, financing rounds and employee ownership.
Donhauser Start-Up Consulting"I solve legal problems before they arise, thus ensuring optimal growth and higher valuations!
The legal system should be a support for you and secure growth instead of putting obstacles in your way. That's why, unlike many other consultants, I support by design. With a solution-oriented applied approach, combining relevant areas of law as well as my experience from top-level international law firms, I can provide you and your team with the advice you need to build your business."
A legal counsel will help you to always make correct and error-free business decisions by providing information and advice, and can then implement them legally.
We not only provide effective decision-making support, but actively help shape it. With a digital approach, we provide consulting throughout Germany in the following areas and industries:
Advice on structuring and support from formation to exit, such as choice of legal form, holding and holding company structuring, capital measures and financing rounds, secondaries and buyouts, corporate finance, corporate governance, corporate law disputes, shareholders' meetings, mergers & acquisitions, board and management consulting, employee shareholdings, private equity, venture capital.
The law of merchants! Advice and negotiation in contract law in the preparation of contracts of sale, service and work contracts, such as e.g. general terms and conditions, software license agreements or transfer agreements. Also in company and register and balance sheet law.
Advice and negotiation in all employment law matters, such as employment and termination agreements, vacation and salary claims, as well as effective representation in court in all employment law matters, such as actions for protection against dismissal, for both employers and employees.
Business valuations, income, corporate and trade tax, VAT and real estate transfer tax law, inheritance and gift tax law.
Advice and drafting on issues relating to the protection of intellectual property and the transfer of IP rights, such as software source codes, tech & media, in particular for new or spin-off companies, employee inventions, license agreements, as well as know-how and secret protection.
Full range of advice on private equity and M&A transactions, corporate acquisitions, private equity investments, equity and mezzanine financings, deal structuring and legal due diligence, in particular in the Tech & Media, Bio-Tech, HealthCare and LifeSciences sectors.
Advice on the tax implications of investments, corporate transactions, restructurings and other often sophisticated tax arrangements.
The focus is on the optimization of contracts, transactions and participations such as holding companies, financings, buyouts, severance payments, option rights, employee shareholdings and the like and always takes place in combination with commercial, corporate & employment law.
Specialized and strategic advice in corporate finance for financing rounds and capital measures. Support in particular in preparations and negotiations such as data room screening, due diligence and term sheet negotiations, as well as drafting and optimizing convertible loan agreements, equity financing rounds, shareholder agreements, shareholder loans and participation agreements.
Strategic advice to secure growth through the combination of different areas of law, especially tailored and optimized to the needs of high-growth companies.
We do not deal with everything, but only with the essentials.
Our advantage and greatest asset is our focus on individual areas of law and their overlap.
• Incorporation
• Partnership agreements
• Shareholder agreements (vesting, tag/drag along, etc.)
• Corporate actions
• Housekeeping
• Holding
• Venture Capital Financing
- Convertible Loans
- Bridge Financing
- Equity Financing
• Deal Structuring
• Share Transfers
• Structuring and optimization of income sources
• tax implications with regard to inheritance law, gift law, family law for start-ups and asset accumulation
• Employment law and liability law advice to managing directors - especially with regard to business decisions, rights and obligations
• Employee shareholdings such as
- Employee stock options (ESOP)
- Virtual stock options (VSOP)
• Managing director service contracts.
• Termination agreements
• Severance payments
• Bonuses
• Employer consulting & employee consulting
- Protection against dismissal
- Contracts
- Ongoing consulting
- Liability
- Special features
- Salary claims
Daniel Donhauser focuses on integrated corporate legal advice and is a specialist in corporate finance.
With an always strategic approach, he advises clients in complex transactions as well as company set-ups.
Learn in the online video course everything you need to know about
The following topics are important to know and keep in mind when starting, financing, growing and exiting your business.
Whether you are a sole proprietor, founder, startup or scaleup, each phase has its own chapter in the Venture Classroom, with many individual videos.