Individual attention and excellent legal advice with commercial understanding, without overhead.
Arrange appointment nowDonhauser Law advises national and international clients with a focus on business law, tax law and litigation.
As an attorney for startups, Daniel Donhauser and his team advise on founding, financing, growth and exit with a focus on value enhancement.
Daniel Donhauser advises on all matters of legal design, structuring and disputes. Learn more about Daniel Donhauser.
We structure not only deals, but the entire venture.
We regularly advise family offices, venture capital funds, M&A investors, founders, start-ups, medium-sized companies, private clients, employers, employees, managing directors, shareholders, board members as well as supervisory board members and bring the right consulting approach for everyone.
Arrange appointmentWe have made it our mission to make the kind of advice, quality and workflow from major international law firms available to a wider audience through digital and modern ways of working.
As a young, digital entity with deep expertise in business law and a modern business model, we see ourselves as a task force among law firms: fast, efficient, acting from close quarters.
Our advantage and greatest asset is our focus on individual areas of law and their overlap, the current legal situation and, of course, the needs of our clients. We do not deal with everything, but with the essentials.
Our team consists of experienced experts with backgrounds from leading law firms, so it is natural for us to always go the extra mile.
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 company, capital measures, financing rounds, secondaries and buyouts, in particular:
Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Corporate Housekeeping, Shareholder Disputes, Shareholder Meetings, Articles of Association, Shareholder Agreements, Mergers & Acquisition, Board and Management Consulting, Employee Participation, Private Equity, Venture Capital.
Advice on holding and holding structures, contribution and spin-off of commercial enterprises, business valuations, income tax, corporate tax, trade tax, VAT and real estate transfer tax law, inheritance and gift tax law, as well as appeals against tax assessments.
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.
The law of merchants! Advice and negotiation in contract law in the preparation of contracts of sale, service and work contracts, such as general terms and conditions, software license agreements or transfer agreements. Also in company law, register law and balance sheet 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, HealthCare and LifeSciences sectors.
Advice on the tax implications of investments, corporate transactions, restructurings, foundations 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 often takes place in combination with commercial, corporate and employment law.
Specialized and strategic advice in corporate finance for financing rounds and capital measures. Support in particular also 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.
• Incorporations
• Partnership agreements
• Shareholder agreements (vesting, tag/drag, IP transactions etc.)
• Corporate actions
• Shareholders' meetings
• Shareholder disputes
• Corporate governance
• Corporate housekeeping
• Corporate acquisitions
• Holding structures
• Venture Capital Financing
• Participation agreements
• Share transfers
• Option rights (put / call)
• Conversions
• Splitting of operations
• Contribution & spin-off of commercial operations
• Foundations
• Tax law issues regarding EStG, GewStG, KStG, UStG
• Structuring and optimization of assets and income sources
• Tax implications on inheritance law, gifts, family law
• Appeals against tax assessments
• Consulting for managing directors regarding
- liability
- rights
- Duties
• Managing director liability
• Status determination procedure
• Employee stock options such as
- Employee stock options (ESOP)
- Virtual stock options (VSOP)
- Profit participation rights
• Management intensification
• Managing director service contracts
• Equity participation of later co-founders
• Buyout
• Earnout
• Termination agreements
• Severance payments
• Bonuses
• Employer Consulting & Employee Consulting
• Dismissal Protection
• Contracts & Agreements
- Ongoing Consulting
- Liability
- Particularities
- Salary claims
Donhauser Law advises national and international clients with a focus on corporate law, employment law, tax law and litigation.
We pursue a partner-based and lean consulting approach. Mandates are handled by an efficient, small and powerful team. The focus is on optimization and design, which is characterized by a few heads thinking intensively about your problem and reducing overhead.
We advise on all transactions related to financing rounds and the acquisition of equity stakes in companies, as well as on the acquisition or sale of a company. We have in-depth industry knowledge in the areas of tech, media, health care & life sciences.
Through our interdisciplinary approach, which every consultant has, we negotiate your deal strategically and execute the design efficiently.
We undertake legal & financial due diligence, manage the transaction, prepare a risk assessment report and assist in purchase price allocation
With expertise in corporate law, tax law and employment law, Donhauser advises investors, founders, entrepreneurs, start-ups, managing directors and shareholders on transactions and all forms of legal structuring.
Since we advise on company sales and investments, we know what is important for an exit. This expertise is the starting point for our start-up consulting.
Our value add is strategic and interdisciplinary consulting for start-ups, growth, financing rounds, employee ownership and exits.
To Donhauser Start-Up ConsultingIn the Private Clients area, the focus is on providing comprehensive advice to high net worth individuals, in particular family entrepreneurs and their usually complex asset structures, and therefore combines the areas of corporate law, civil law and, above all, tax law in order to be able to efficiently record all individual needs and provide strategic advice.
As we assist entrepreneurs right from the start, we always advise on pension provision and succession planning at each stage.
Our value add is strategic and interdisciplinary advice on investments, assets and the integration of companies.
Donhauser advises and represents your interests in and out of court before all courts, in particular in labor law, commercial & corporate law disputes, as well as in cases of infringement of intellectual property rights.
Since we deal with negotiation theory and psychology for court cases, this experience, in addition to expertise in negotiations, is incorporated.
Our value add is the depth of expertise in selected areas of law and the overlap that we handle argumentatively in litigation.
Donhauser Law offers an external legal counsel service for companies in the growth phase. This combined legal advice with business consulting and helps to make error-free decisions.
Learn everything you need to know about founding, financing, growing and exiting your company in the coaching.
Whether you are a sole proprietor, founder, startup or scaleup, each phase has its own chapter in the Venture Classroom, with many individual videos.